Article first published on www.huffingtonpost.com on 3/03/2017 Our lives are busier than ever – they’re so complex when simplicity will do. We’re programed from a young age to relentlessly, often ruthlessly pursue ‘more’. We push ourselves to the extreme to try and reach success. We’re totally unconscious to the fact that we’re slowly and painfully killing […]

Article first published on www.huffingtonpost.com on 20/02/2017 as part of the #lovetakesaction campaign Stop. Sit still for just a minute and allow yourself a small slice of silence. Use the space in this silence to ask yourself this question: ‘Is how I am living my life working for me?’ Are you squirming? Did your intuition tell […]

Article first published on www.mywellbeingmagazine.com on 17/02/2017 No! is a complete sentence … February 17, 2017 by bronwen sciortino Almost all of us are constrained by ‘rules’ that we don’t even know exist – that aren’t actually written down anywhere but were drummed into us as part of our social conditioning as a child. When […]

Article first published on www.steelheels.com.au on 31/01/2017 The fear of missing out (FOMO) is becoming a driving force in the lives of too many of us. We overload our lives with unnecessary activity because we’re focused on finding the ‘golden nugget’ that is going to catapult us to success and we’re worried that we’ll miss […]

Article first published on www.dynamicbusinesswomen.com.au on 16/01/2016 Make Changes…. It’s Your Choice We’re taught from a very early age that change is something to be feared. In fact, over time this message has been reinforced so strongly that we now fear change more than we fear death. As we grow up we’re conditioned by the people […]

First published on http://blog.sivanaspirit.com on 24/11/2016 Are you one of those people who gives lip service to the benefits of ‘quiet’ practices such as yoga, tai chi and meditation? Are you known to utter the words “I’ve heard it’s really good for you ….. but I just can’t sit still”? Or maybe you’re someone who does these […]

First published on www.lifegrid.com.au on 17/11/2016 Imagine the most stressful, complex situation you’ve ever faced … and then multiply it by 1,000. That’s what every second of every day was like for me. I was a sugar addict and I lived my life fuelled by adrenalin and cortisol. I spent all my time running around after […]

First published on www.huffingtonpost.com on 01/11/2016 Being stressed is simply a fact of everyday life – right? Everyday living demands that we absorb stress and power on. From a very young age we’re taught that we must be resilient and strong for us to survive – and indeed thrive in the world. We live in a […]

Do you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?’ (Danielle LaPorte) We’re all socially conditioned from the time we’re born. We’re told the ‘right’ and ‘appropriate’ social patterns with regards to who we are, what we can enjoy doing, who we’re allowed to […]

First published on www.huffingtonpost.com on 29/09/2016 What is it about someone that makes us want to follow them? We’ve all had people in our lives that have caught our attention for some reason – whether it be because of a song they’ve sung, a picture they’re in, places they’ve been, clothes they are wearing, the job […]

First published on www.lifegrid.com.au on 29/09/2016 One of the greatest ‘ah-ha’ moments you can have in your life is realising that you do the same things every day but secretly hope that things will change. Most of us are so enmeshed in our comfort zones that we operate completely on auto-pilot and don’t even think about […]

First published on http://blog.sivanaspirit.com on 23/09/2016 It’s scary when you realise you would have been dead at 45. An even worse realisation is that it is as a result of the things you’ve done to yourself and the way you have lived your life. I lived my life teetering on the edge. My battle wasn’t with a […]

First published on Huffington Post 10/09/2016 We sit in our comfort zones every day …. pretending that they’re there to support us. When you strip everything back and bring it down to the bare bones, life is really just a game that we play every day. Our lives pass us by and we have no idea. […]

First published on Huffington Post 14th July 2016 FOMO! …. Exhaustion …. Struggle … Overwhelm …. Stress … and the list goes on. Let’s face it – most of us live our lives with one or more of these feelings appearing regularly every day. We live like this because we’ve been socially conditioned that our lives […]

First published on Huffington Post – 27 May 2016 What if we’re not an island? …. What if we weren’t meant to ‘go it alone’? It’s funny, the way we’re conditioned to rely on community but we’re also expected to ‘make it’ on our own. Today’s way of life sees us funnelled into the drive to […]

First published on Huffington Post – 16 May 2016 You’re a seeker. You’ve invested in yourself and you’ve done some work. You’ve taken steps, made huge bounds, have way less stress, way more love and you’ve created a life that is totally supportive of your everyday. And then someone invades your space. Every button is pushed and […]

First published on Huffington Post – 11 May 2016 We’re all socially conditioned from the time we’re born. We’re trained to act, react and behave in a manner that is deemed ‘appropriate’, ‘right’ and ‘acceptable’. We’re conditioned by our family, our friends, our school, our community, our religion, our country, our ethnicity and the list goes on. […]

First published on Huffington Post – 8 May 2016 Most of us slog our way through every day. The alarm goes off after what seems like way too little sleep, we force ourselves out of bed and out into the day. We’re constantly sick and bordering on exhaustion. We lack motivation, drive and energy. We drive […]

First published on Huffington Post – 16 April 2016 It’s only a short word, but the word ‘change’ can instil a massive amount of fear in our hearts. Change is defined by Dictionary.com as making ‘…the form, nature, content, future, course, etc. of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if […]

We often think about stories as being things we’re told as we’re growing up. They’re about love, and fairy tales and being rescued by a prince on a dashing white horse. They usually have a theme that we’re supposed to learn from, and they often form part […]