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  • Outta Oxytocin

    Outta Oxytocin

    We have continued our new date night tradition. Norm and I decided to go out for dinner last Sunday as we had been home all weekend due to the Two Oceans Marathon and we felt a wee bit of cabin fever. The wind was crazy all weekend which also creates it’s own form of chaos!…

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  • The Resilience of Women

    The Resilience of Women

    Last week at Soul Circle we were talking about how most of us (and many women in general) say they are ‘Resilient’ as if it is something to be proud of. Meanwhile, being able to always be strong is not always a positive, it can also be a trauma response as Nikki our facilitator mentioned.…

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  • The Best Medicine

    The Best Medicine

    For such a hermit I have been really busy, but not so busy that it was too exhausting, the nice thing about a 4 day weekend is you can fit in recovery time. The remainder of Easter weekend was lovely. At lunch time last Saturday I went to a friend’s for her birthday celebration and…

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  • The Peace of Acceptance & the Ease of Ignorance

    The Peace of Acceptance & the Ease of Ignorance

    I was recently thinking about when I was young and carefree. I was about as deep as a puddle despite being educated, I was only educated in Science related things, not anything to do with EQ or street savvy. I only developed empathy once I had children, this may be part of being Neurodiverse but…

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  • Emotional Regulation

    Emotional Regulation

    There are so many terms which have popped up into everyday conversation since I was parenting my littles, one that my therapist throws in a lot is ’emotional regulation’. I had never heard this term when I was a mom of little kids and I lived in LA and went to a million kids classes…

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