Spiritual
Recognising that there is a higher power that exists above all and brings meaning and purpose to life. This is also a relational revelation because the very heartbeat of God is to be in relationship with his creation. Likewise, we were created to live in positive, life giving relationships.
Self-Care is Valuable for Being YOUR Best
Self-care is valuable, perhaps not for the reasons you have heard before. No doubt, the simple thought of reading something about self-care makes you squirm and switch off. Don’t go yet! I want to talk about something that is super important. What if I said that self-care matters EVEN more […]
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Spiritual Wellbeing and Mental Health Outcomes
It was a short article but well worth the read. Of particular interest to me was that Otago University planned to host a symposium on this very topic. Specifically, how “to tackle some of life’s most fundamental questions, including the nature of reality and the meaning of life.” Here are […]
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5 Ways to Make Your Goals Irresistible
Ever had goal fatigue? Ever set some goals and not followed through? Here are 5 ways to make your goals irresistible. It’s time to get out of the failure repeat cycle and create some wins! 1. Keep it simple, stupid! (KISS) I know that when you read that you totally […]
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Why we get Goal Setting Fatigue (and How to Avoid it)
Prefer to listen? Check out my podcast… Have you ever had goal setting fatigue? That feeling you get when you set a new goal (or 6!) and then haven’t been able to complete it? Its frustrating. It can be totally discouraging. It can end with throwing the whole concept of […]
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Applying 2020 Vision for 2021 Goal Setting
Happy New Year! There have been a number of social media posts floating around over the past few weeks, all with the same sentiment: ‘New Year, new goals…how cliché.’ It seems many of us have goal setting fatigue. Many of us don’t want to do the ‘set new goals for […]
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What is a Bespectacled Life? Living on purpose…
In short: A Bespectacled Life is the act of putting on your life-spectacles and clearly seeing the next step forward to positive lasting change. It’s a call to live life on purpose… There are three main parts to living a bespectacled life: Living well across all domains of health: WHOLEistic […]
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Its time to put down our phones!
Prefer to listen? Check out my podcast on this topic (or find it in Apple Podcasts) I think its time we learned how to put down our phones. A friend shared a bunch of art on Facebook that really caught my attention. One image particularly stood out- it was a […]
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Running in the rain!
So I went for a run/walk in the rain just the other day (just to let you know it was August and I’m an Australian living in NZ- that seems like important information for context right now!). The night before, I had decided that I needed to escape the funk […]
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Part 4: Putting it all Together
If your curious but can’t be bothered reading all the blogs in this series, this is your blog! It sums the other three up nicely! So…I have been harping on about these three concepts (Body, Garden, God), and my blog is categorised into these three concepts also. You […]
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Body Garden God Series- Part 3: The God I Can’t Ignore
If I may ask you to read one blog in its entirety, it would be this one. I want to be up front about God from the start. It is my deepest desire that anyone will feel welcome to be a part of this community, and I want […]
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On Silent Nights
My talented other half was asked to speak at the Community Christmas Lunch yesterday and I really loved his message (biased, I know!). He talked about the following text… Galatians 4:4-5 But when the right moment came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to […]
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