26/09/2025
I am often asked... "How?" How have I been the only Connection Circle host to have been able to continue to run successfully, a Connection Circle for Youth, on the Gold Coast for almost 6 years?
It's not my advertising and social media capabilities! lol that's for sure! Is it our activities? Sure. Partly. But what makes Wildflower Sanctuary so unique.... is me.
We are all unique, incredible individuals, in our own right. And what makes us all so unique and incredible? Our experiences, our values, our personalities, what we have learned thru a variety of life's lessons, where we come from and how we have each grown and experienced life - in our own ways.
My life's experiences, what I have learned and who I have grown to be and still continue to become, is what enables me to connect with our Youth and be of support to them, in the ways in which I do.
My life has been filled with extreme adversity. As a child, as a Teen, and as a Young Adult, and yes, in various ways, as a grown Adult, I still encounter my own share of adversities today. These adversities as a youth, caused me to become, extremely driven. Even as a child, I wanted NEEDED a better life for myself. I wanted to feel better. BE better. And feel safe, loved, protected, guided, nurtured and supported. Sadly, receiving this as a child/teen or young adult, has not been a part of my story... But instead, what that did, was cause me to become more driven than ever. To learn for myself. To seek the support, wisdom, awareness, practices, tools and study, I needed then as well as today, to grow into someone, who is capable of giving all of these qualities to myself. And, to pass on my wisdom, my experience, my compassion and depths of understanding, to Youth as well as Adult Women within our community, that struggle with all kinds of adversities.
Because I DO, understand. I know what it feels like and - I know what it takes, to get out from under it.
My life's experiences, and who I have become because of not only these experiences, but how I have chosen to grow, continue to heal and bloom - is what makes me a unique and capable Connection Circle host, as well as Youth Mentor.
We connect, when we can relate AND accept one another's differences. And this, is something I have the ability to provide, in bucketfuls.
Wildflower Sanctuary was created and continues to evolve, to be the safe space for Youth, that I never had... but always needed.
"Why me?"
"Because that child, that teen... who experienced such extensive and extreme traumas and abuse, neglect, humiliation, rejection, bullying, social out-casting, shame, fear of speaking, ridicule, physical mental and emotional ailments conditions and extreme distress - that girl, was me."
