Wishing everyone all the love, energy and inspiration of the new moon, and the solar eclipse, and the passion and power to begin whatever it is you’ve been longing to manifest into the world... May the coming month unfold with all the promise and potential you seek, and you work hard to make your dreams
This month I am grateful to my sweet hubby for doing the 40 Hour Famine with me, and to everyone who sponsored us... With thanks… Monday August 1… Pump… Today I am grateful that I squeezed in a Pump workout before work… I’m glad I got lots done at the magazines – sent a mag
This month I am grateful for my Camp NaNoWriMo buddies, glad I got so much work done on Into the Storm, and happy my ankle kinda healed so I could get back to my BodyPump and BodyCombat hybrid... With thanks… Friday July 1… Camp NaNoWriMo day 1 – 2000 words… Happy Day 1 of Camp
This month I am grateful for a trip to Perth for my first Supanova there – and a chance to visit my family – and to Juz for helping me so much with, well, everything, and to Selina for a fun Sydney Supanova... With thanks… Wednesday June 1… Today I am grateful for the beauty
Wishing all my friends in the south a magical, blessed Yule, and those in the north an inspiring, energising summer solstice. The winter solstice is about the re-emergence of light from the dark, so it is a celebration of the earth – and our – renewal. Symbolically and energetically it’s a time to honour your
This month I am grateful for Body Pump and Body Combat, for a visit from a faraway friend, for the release of the beautiful hardcover Into the Mists Trilogy, for an awesome four days at the Mind Body Spirit Festival, and a fun online launch with author Felicity Pulman... With thanks… Sunday May 1… Today
Out On A Leash New Idea – national weekly magazine An interview with Hollywood legend and spiritual author Shirley MacLaine. She’s an Oscar-winning actress, but Shirley MacLaine is also an acclaimed author, who has inspired millions of people with stories of her own spiritual search. Books such as Out on a Limb and Dancing in
It's been a crazy four days at the Mind Body Spirit Festival – not to mention a crazy night at the online launch I shared with Felicity Pulman – and I'm feeling a little drained. But I'm also so very grateful that I met so many lovely people, and sold so many books, and got
What is her name? Carlie (named for the goddess Kali) Parker. She’s the main character in Into the Mists and its sequels Into the Dark and Into the Light, and the story is told from her point of view… Is she a fictional/historical character? She’s fictional, although many of the rituals she takes part in
NEW RELEASES Exciting times! Last week the first copy of the Into the Mists Trilogy Hardcover Omnibus arrived, and it’s sooo beautiful And thick, and heavy But I love it! I have an exclusive preorder offer for it running at the moment, which includes a free copy of Into the Mists: A Journal or A
NEWS Today I’m so happy that the first copy of the hardcover omnibus edition of the Into the Mists Trilogy arrived. And I love it! It looks amazing! Even better than I’d hoped! :-) And I'm so grateful for all the lovely messages about it. Can't wait to launch it at the Mind Body Spirit
Samhain blessings to everyone in the southern hemisphere, and to those in the north, magical Beltane wishes… Samhain, the festival of the ancestors and the dead that marks the beginning of winter, falls in early May in the southern hemisphere and early November in the northern hemisphere – and on October 31 in popular culture,
Samhain, the festival of the Ancestors and the dead that marks the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, honours the Wheel of the Year as it turns towards the barrenness of the coldest season, in nature and in our lives, and is a time of withdrawal and withering. It is the third and
Beltane marks the first day of summer, and is representative of vitality, fertility and the energy of the sun, so its foods include luscious fruits like cherries and strawberries, green leaf, herb and flower petal salads, oat or barley cakes, dairy foods and honey. Mead, a type of honey wine, is popular, white wine, white
This month I am grateful for Camp NaNoWriMo – and another 32,000 words written of Rhiannon's story – and for just how stubborn I am, and determined... And I'm grateful for high tea with a sweet friend, and my sweet hubby's endless patience when I'm writing... With thanks… Friday April 1… Jillian day 5 +
Thank you so so much to everyone who has sponsored me. Over the last two weeks I’ve undertaken three challenges to raise money for two great causes – and thanks to my lovely friends, I raised almost $800 between the two. Someone asked me why I take part in these events, and I guess the
No Excuses, No Regrets Originally written for inSpirit magazine... You get what you work for, not what you wish for. Are you ready to carve out the mental and emotional space to achieve your dreams? What is it that you most want to do? Which dream burns within you and makes your soul soar when
Had to laugh at one of our Camp NaNoWriMo pep talks today... “Too intimidated by the blank page? Just sneak up on your story. The first sentence can literally be "I have no idea what I want the first sentence of my story to be." (Once I started my novel with "I probably should have
Today Camp NaNoWriMo began. This is the second one I’ve done, and I decided to continue writing Rhiannon’s story, which I began last July during my first Camp NaNoWriMo. Camp is a little less stressful than November’s “proper” event, where the goal is 50,000 words in 30 days. For Camp you can choose your own