Mindful Mum's Queensland

24/04/2025

You may be wondering what to do this long weekend... Why not join me on Sunday morning at 11:30 at the Bayview Bar and Bistro on Palmer Street (Townsville) for a fun and insightful conversation about Midlife as part of the Sundalah Showcase event.

https://www.facebook.com/events/966500802309930

The Blessings and Curse of Midlife is my 6th book, inspired by a touch of mortality motivation and the desire to keep growing and going in a direction that feels right for me.

The idea for this book was concieved on this Hill where I lay a lot of my worries to rest whilst training for middle-aged mum marathons. 🏃‍♀️

The central themes of this book are; Health, Wealth, Work and Dealing with Death - 4 topics that often keep us awake at night. Sunday's talk will be candid, inspiring and fun. I hope to meet some new people with a passion for getting the most out of their life. 🤸

Huge thanks to Jasmine Healy-Pagan and the entire Sundalah Community Townsville who bring so much wellness and inspiration to our city. 🥰

You can see the full program of events right here:

https://www.facebook.com/share/18wJxHjGxj/

Krissy Regan
The Wellness Poet

13/02/2025

Really looking forward to this event on Saturday with Youth RESET

Do come along and learn some tips for home and the workplace.

Release stress from your day, tension from your body, and feel ease flow into your body and mind.

26/01/2025

Congratulations Youth RESET and Jasmine Healy-Pagan

Sundalah Community Townsville 😍

19/01/2025

What other tools will you add to your child’s backpack this year?

With anxiety and digital addiction on the rise. With cyber bullying and social anxiety increasing how will you help your child navigate the world this year.

It’s strange to me that we took away bikes and gave our children phones thinking they would be safer! I do not believe that letting a child stay alone in a dark room with strangers is good for their wellbeing.

As we outsource all our free time to a device we have lost the mind wandering time we once had. We no longer day dream, doodle or donate our free time to help others.

Those of us that straddle the digital divide, rode our bikes without helmets, and called our parents reverse charges will know what I’m talking about. We need to use our experiences of the olden days to influence the young minds of those that know no better. We have reached a tipping point in mental health as well as digital addiction and our relationships at every level are suffering. The wellbeing of our young people is suffering. Mental burnout, shorter attention spans, and poor quality sleep is preventing our young people from living healthy and fulfilling lives. We have to be parents Again. We can’t continue to outsource parenting to a tablet.

We need to be good role-models, we need to give our attention back to our young people AND we need to educate our children on what is appropriate use of devices and apps. We use them, they don’t USE us.

We can also teach our children some simple tools to reset their central nervous system if they feel stressed and anxious, and we can prioritise family wellbeing by doing fun, spontaneous things together outdoors. Who knows we may even accidentally eat some dirt and help our gut bacteria in the process.

Let’s make 2025 the year we make the BEST of our simple, free, natural environment and only use AI when we want to free up more time for our loved ones!

Love and Health,

Krissy Regan
The Wellness Poet
Youth RESET

p.s. I’m writing this as a reminder to myself too 🤗

06/11/2024

New RESET community classes are now live - jump on board for this transformative experience for the mind and body for you and the young people in your life.

30/10/2024

Recently I read this post on LinkedIn, and it described perfectly how I was treated in a recent work experience.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kvmarshall_we-have-all-worked-in-toxic-places-we-have-activity-7255996191929180160-mv4v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

It’s funny how language and writing can help us see the truth in almost any situation. And this is the reason that I will continue to write.

What confounds me every day as a middle-aged adult is how unrelatable events are, until they happen to you. It’s almost as if our brain and our bodies don’t allow us to entertain anything that is not immediately on our plate. Only after you’ve gone through something, can you then relate to others (lived experience). Toxic workplaces; financial troubles; relationship breakdown; death of a loved one; infertility. Whatever it is, only when, and if it happens to you, will you be able to fully relate to the experiences of those that have already suffered. Doesn’t that seem strange. I wonder if our CV needs to reflect all our hardships/struggles/challenges in order for us to demonstrate the right experience to support others in a similar position.

OK! I just had an AHA moment. At the bottom of our CV next to our hobbies should be our Major Life Moments. What do think?
Krissy Regan CV
Hobbies - Major Life Moments
🤟Running -🫶Bullying
🤟Travelling -🫶Miscarriage
🤟Writing -🫶Abuse
🤟Playing -🫶Infertility

During an interview, or watercooler conversation, your major life moments can be chatted about as easily as how many k’s you clocked this week. Most people would be extremely uncomfortable putting their major life moments on their CV, but we carry them inside of us every day.

If a Bully at work is triggering for you, and you know first-hand that it takes weeks, months and years to recover from Bullying then the chances are workplaces may have to take more seriously the impact of bullying and toxic behaviour at work (Don’t forget there are Laws including psycho safety).

Let’s say you see a Boss (or person with power) repeatedly drinking and spending company assets on their addiction, and then playing favourites with promotions and things, you may recognise that form of abuse more easily than say colleagues who have not suffered abuse.

Rather than hide our “major life moments and treat them with shame we can show them off and know that they have become our Superpower. We become healthier individuals and workplaces when we acknowledge the Whole Person for their skills, their experiences, their attributes, and their superpowers.
Bullies are not hero’s, those that survive them are. And in every situation, I can think of as an adult I would say this: Bullies and Abusers are tolerated for far too long, but in the end they always lose.

If you read the LinkedIN post, do check out the comments below as one guy talks about how he turned to alcohol for years to overcome the abuse he suffered at work. Knowing what workplace bullying and abuse ‘FEELS like’, and how long it takes to recover, I certainly was not going to turn to the bottle. Instead, I choose to run and write my way out of it. Far healthier, and I get to see lots of places, meet lots of people and use my superpowers to help others.

I am an advocate for bringing your whole-self to every situation. It might feel strange at first, but you do go home every evening feeling Whole and your own kind of Wonder Woman! You can not thrive when you don’t feel safe. What I also know from decades of experience is that rejection is re-direction, so ruminating on how you were treated is not helpful long term. You should try to process it, learn from it, and move forward.

Don’t let negative experiences hold you back from achieving your full potential. Not every setting is right for every individual. There are “plenty more fish in the sea, jobs, towns, homes, friends etc.” Always strive to be your best self and the right people will notice.

Love and Health, 🥰

Krissy Regan

Mindful Mum's Queensland
The Wellness Poet

24/10/2024

When do you press pause on personal development?

The truth is we should never press pause on personal development, but it may be necessary to turn down the dial for a period of time while other things take precedence.

These past few days I’ve spent many hours (19) in the hospital with Miss 10 who lost a battle with a screen door and now has wires in her pinky finger. We are now pinky twins as I too had a pinky finger screw many years ago and I know how brutal metal in bone truly is.

We have tried very hard to be patient patients and be grateful for our clean, free, friendly health system. Our patience was rewarded with hugs and good wishes from the many amazing people we know working in our very busy hospital.

My working week and exercise schedule was turned on it’s head as was my CNS after 4 hours of screaming, crying and tears on Sunday, coupled with flashbacks from a decade ago when my baby was admitted to special care and had a splint on her arm for the first week of her life. But, as most parents will know, you find another gear when your child is in pain and somehow all the things that need prioritising get prioritised and all the things that don’t matter, don’t matter.

Yesterday was a very important workday for me but I’m blessed to work with some amazing people who were very kind and genuinely supportive of my predicament and sent only warm and genuine messages of support. I had to give myself permission to let go of all of my work commitments so I could be fully present with my child and not feel guilt from either side. A 12hour marathon with 4 waiting rooms, while we sat patiently on the emergency surgery list. We tried to make it fun, not complain, not moan about being hungry, and to be grateful. I also fasted so she could see we were in it together.

Finding yourself with many accidental free hours (albeit not holiday-like) is far from ideal at such a busy time of year, and the reality of such an injury means the end of the year for many of the things she loves most. Over the past few days my role has been to help her be as calm and unafraid as possible, whilst knowing that she must confront more pain in order to heal. To show her that whilst this environment is intimidating, we can be confident and self-assured that people are here to help. We’ve bumped into many people we know, and there are no real secrets in our town.

My only observation is that the continual bad news echoing on every hospital waiting-room television is not ideal for staying Zen, and we know that this does affect people’s energy, so I hope that hospitals can consider this in the future. While it’s not a spa day, we don’t need to see destruction and murder just before going to theatre. Animated movies or romcoms would be better for laughter and oxytocin – much better for healing, growth and repair. N.B. Queensland Health

We have bonded over a school assignment about Cassowary’s and decided that if we sing instead of talking, life becomes a musical. We engaged our Youth RESET breathing strategies and remembered how lucky we are. You might say we wrapped our personal development and self-care in cotton wool while we navigate this pinky problem and that all around us, life goes on.

Juggling self-care and personal development is imperative during times of crises and I’m reminded of this in finishing my new book and sharing the stories of those that have lost loved ones, and somehow needed to find the strength to go on themselves, whilst caring for others.

Whatever life throws at you this weekend, or how many doors shut on your finger, do take care to double your dose of self-care, and find some personal development practise when presented with a crisis.

Love and Health,

Krissy Regan
Mindful Mum's Queensland
The Wellness Poet

20/10/2024

If you can get to the end of the week (Sunday) and look back on all the people that have added value to your life and all the opportunities that have given you purpose and joy than chances are any challenges you have had will be cancelled out. That intent-full reflection will pave the way for the coming week as you prepare your mind and your environment to focus on the things that are important to you and add meaning to your life. I’m starting each week with a level of excitement and gratitude and ending each week feeling whole and grateful.

5 Years ago, I went to an event held in Townsville and as it was the first event I’d ever attended as an adult in Townsville (since moving back a few months prior) I decided that I could be whatever I wanted to be as no-one knew who I was, or my background. I decided I would not tell people I was a project manager, mum or anything else. When people asked me what I did, I told them I AM a Writer. I decided I wanted to BE a Writer, not become a Writer. That which we already are, we become. I introduced myself to people I met, and said I AM a Writer (books, blogs and poems). No one challenged me and people were kind.

That event was held by Kerwin Rae and very sadly he died yesterday aged 49. The same age as me! Two months after I first met him, I signed a publishing contract for book no. 1. And last night at 9pm I finished proof reading book no. 6. In 5 years I’ve learned how to write, publish, sell, and market my own books all over the world. Yesterday I calculated I have more than 10 different income streams from my books, and had I not have talked myself into being a Writer, and introducing myself as one, the past 5 years may never have happened.

I started this week with an event at a local primary school, reading my books and spending time with children talking about, art, life and creativity. I then spent 4 days helping my clients with their projects, developing tools, systems and assets that engage and create change.

I managed to exercise every day, walking, running and yoga. I completed my 98th parkrun and coached my two girls touch footy teams. You might say it was a full week – but it was full of the things that bring me joy, and allow me to engage my whole-self.

I’ve realised after 49 years that I’m at my best when I’m using all my natural gifts and all the skills, I’ve been lucky to learn throughout my life. Every single day is precious. Every week is an opportunity to reflect on our values, our aspirations, and how we can create change for others.

I hope you have a chance to be your best self this week, and to bring your whole-self to every situation. You never know when it will all be over!

RIP Kerwin Rae. 😪

Love and Health,
Krissy Regan

The Wellness Poet
Mindful Mum's Queensland