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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi
I have travelled a long way to be here now
I realised that I liked this midlife journeying. I felt the years have added depth to my everyday experience. The passage of time had made me even more aware of the importance of being present to each moment.
Soul Medicine for the Midlife Woman is here
Go on a soul journey in this transformational nine-week programme created by Archeus founder, Georgina Langdale
Nature & the Midlife Woman
This week I share with you some background on why I set up my business Archeus (ten years ago!), some of my thoughts on how I work with Nature to help and support women in midlife and all the changes and transitions it brings from menopause, to changing relationships, caring for ageing parents, and all the grief and joy, living and dying of life.
After the Cyclone - finding resilience in a changing world
It's been a few weeks now since the cyclone Gabrielle devastated the region I live in. This has been a life-changing experience and this episode of The Soul Garden explores how to navigate through events such as this and how we may help create love, resilience and compassion in a changing world.
Cyclone Gabrielle Healing & Prayer Circle event
This FREE online event is for people who wish to gather together in sacred space to pray, grieve and offering healing following the devastation created this week in New Zealand by Cyclone Gabrielle.
A year of learning to love my (post-menopausal) body
This is written for women in midlife who aren’t gym bunnies or yoga goddesses. This is for women who haven't ticked off another half marathon or swim every day in the ocean. This is written for women who have fallen out of relationship with their physical self under wondering how even if it is possible to reset their relationship with their body.
We are a mosaic in the garden of life
A day comes, much like any other, except you sit around a table with strangers talking. And then in the middle of the night you lie in bed and toss and turn in damp sheets with the sensation of being those strangers listening to all the broken china bits of you.
What is the legacy you wish to leave behind?
This blog is an updated version of a speech I gave to the REBUS club in Havelock north just a couple of months after my father died in 2019. The REBUS group is for retired professionals and I explored with them ideas around what legacy we wish to leave behind.
What’s Malcolm McLaren got to do with a healing garden anyway?
A meditation on friendship
Being a woman in her 50s should be about being accepted, not brave.
It’s time to embrace the natural process of ageing.
The Things that Save Us
How an interview with James Rhodes talking about music reminded me of the things that save us.