Boundaries – do you need them?
Boundaries are a very important part of life, and because they are tricky to implement, are usually something we tend to ignore. Boundary setting...
Rift and repair
We have all fallen out with someone or other over the course of our lives. It is never pleasant disagreeing with someone so strongly...
International Pride Month Volume 3
It’s International Pride Month! In previous weeks we’ve explored sexual orientation so now let’s move onto gender.
Gender: Gender isn’t physical, and isn’t defined by...
Have COVID and need to go to hospital?
One of the things I’ve always struggled with as a parent is how to judge when your sick child is sick enough to need...
International Pride Month Vol. 2
Today we continue our Pride Month Information Series. Last week we started by exploring the basics and today we’ll delve a little deeper.
Bisexual/bi: someone...
To grudge or not to grudge?
Following on from April’s Sulking column, let’s talk about taking a sulk to extremes and holding a grudge. The term ‘holding’ a grudge is...
Sulking
Being in a ‘sulk’ means, according to the Collins English dictionary, “to be silent and resentful because of a wrong done to one...to brood...
Nyuü!
It is pronounced “New-You.”
It’s bold, to imagine a new you. To envision a future beyond ‘now’ has a kind of power. To hope in...
Maxine’s constructive conversation starter in the wake of grief
Content warning: suicide
Maxine Aitken lost her son Adam to suicide at the start of 2022. Driven by a need to ease the tragedy of...
Fire cider
Fire Cider is a tonic, originally made by Rosemary Gladstar in the late 1970’s. She created a base recipe to strengthen the immune system,...
World’s Greatest Shave 2022
Each year, The Leukaemia Foundation hosts The World’s Greatest Shave to raise funds to search for a cure for blood cancers. Over 110,000 Australians...
Flu fighters
The last week the dreaded virus hit our house — it was time to test what I have been preaching!
Hot lemon drinks with honey,...
