At the Grove, we are hearing from many of our clients that they are worried about their elderly parents and grandparents, especially those that live alone or in aged care facilities.
The mental health of elderly people was already an important issue before this crisis, but with the isolation and fear present right now, it is crucial that we find ways to connect.
Read MoreLast night we had a bust up in our kitchen. As I was putting a younger child to bed, I could hear our adolescent children arguing over whose turn it was to wash up.
They are older now, the voices are louder and more powerful.
Arguing can be both frightening and exhausting to be around.
For me, arguing triggers me back to my childhood.
In my childhood experience, my father often argued, particularly when someone disagreed with him.
Read MoreOur being needs to feel intimacy to repair and grow. Derived from the Latin intimare ‘impress, make familiar’, from intimus ‘inmost’, intimacy implies a place where we are truly prepared to be with and make known our innermost experiences.
How do you make space for intimacy in your relationships?
Read MoreRegardless of the type of relationship, if we want it to work we have to put the time in.
The more we 'show up', the more we get out of the experience.
But what does 'showing up' really mean?
Read MoreSo I lost my nerve with my writing. It has been months since I have pondered my experience of the world on the page. Something about ‘that is not how it is done’ became a bigger voice than I could battle. So rather than battling, I let it have its rein for a while. I sat with it, I wondered and I discovered a little wounded part of self, who believed she was never good enough. We became friends, we played games, and rather than trying to convince each other who was right and who was wrong, we eventually chose to accept one another for all of the messiness and the incompleteness that we are.
Read MoreWholebody Focusing can transform your life. If you would like to learn more about how this practice can help you feel empowered, more satisfied in your relationships and more engaged in life, watch this short 2 minute video...
Read MoreThis weekend past, it was my school reunion. Now whilst that might not seem like anything significant, quite a few decades on, there was a lot to reflect on.
You see I was a boarder sent to a city school from the country at 12 years old. Only getting to go home on the holidays or the occasional long weekend, I essentially grew up at high school. At the reunion I met up again with the people that had grown me up – my fellow students.
Reflecting on the stories shared on the night, I realize now the huge impact we all had upon one another.
Read MoreAll my life I have lived surrounded by beautiful gardens. As a child the garden was a place of escape into wonder and make believe. As I grew older the garden became a place of family working bees - arguing with my siblings and protesting with my parents as we raked leaves, watered the garden beds and mowed the lawns . As a young adult home from university, the garden grew into a place where I could talk with my mother about the questions of life, as I helped her toil away in the vegie patch or prune the roses.
The garden grew and transformed, as I grew and transformed.
Read MoreLife for me is about relationships
And within this
Increasingly I have an appreciation for the conversations that matter
Yet I note the courage it takes for me to share the truth of my experience
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