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I help professionals manage stress, avoid burnout, embrace mindfulness and improve wellbeing 🌿

21/09/2025

We can’t change the world, but we can change OUR world!

Today is World Gratitude Day and if you’ve been following me for any length of time you’ll know that gratitude is a foundational practice for me.

It was really the first mindfulness practice I ever adopted and I credit it with:

🪷 Opening my heart
🪷 Shifting me out of victim thinking
🪷 Waking me up to the beauty of the world
🪷 And elevating my mood, energy and interactions with others.

Incredible that such a simple process can have such transformative effects. If it was a pill it would be a blockbuster!

So today I invite you to begin your own practice.

✍️ Grab a sheet of paper and take 10 minutes to review the last 24 hours. What went well, what did you notice that’s good in your life and how did that make you feel?

The key is to not just cognitively acknowledge what you’re grateful for, but to drop down into your heart and feel it.

Put as much detail into your writings as you can and then watch how the world around you starts to change.

We may not be able to do much about the wars, conflicts and traumas happening in the world right now, but we can do so much about our inner world and let that be a positive ripple that flows and impacts all that we interact with every day.

Powerful stuff! 🙏

31/07/2025

How comfortable are you showing emotion at work?

This morning I was on a business call, planning the details for a keynote I’ll be delivering for R U OK? Day and just as I began to share the outline of my talk, the tears came 🥹

I got choked, couldn’t speak for a few minutes and there was nothing I could do but let the moment be and ride it out.

In times gone by that would have horrified me.

I’d be embarrassed, felt some shame that I’d lost control of myself and would have worried that my reputation as a competent, experienced and professional worker was at risk. That people would think less of me.

But fast forward 13 years and the opposite is true.

I’m now more than happy with the fact that I’m an emotional, sensitive and empathetic human and rather than the tears being unprofessional, it’s actually my superpower to be able to feel deeply, and have it show.

It builds connection, trust and safety with those I work with - and I love that!

If you’re looking for a facilitator, coach or speaker that shows up without a mask, speaks from the heart and invites the audience into a space of truth and realness - let’s chat 🙏🫶

24/07/2025

Such a soulful start to the day in the city thanks to Business Women Australia and Monica Rosenfeld.

Monica is the inspiring creator of Stories that Stir®Global and generously shared her insights into the power of storytelling, including:

💎Ability of story to bypass the head and go straight to the heart
💎Key ingredients of a good story to engage your audience
💎Powerful ripple effect when we have the courage to be vulnerable
💎That sharing our truth and vulnerability is more important now than ever before.

It’s rare to find a networking event filled with such deep connections, openness and heart felt sharing. Thanks to Wendy Harper, Alicia Lansdown and Business Women Australia for creating and holding the space this morning 🙏

18/07/2025

Join us for a Wild Meditations Adventure to the Blue Mountains 🥾

📆 Saturday 2nd August

🎟️ https://essentialwholeness.com.au/events/wild-meditations-glenbrook-gorge/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR56cF7qbf5PVgjRWe61IegBygbBe5ylAw9QqtzzfY99kvY4gTJpY2fyafatmQ_aem_0ynLtHbfe3wnAYMK22prbw

17/07/2025

We had a wonderful day at our Family Constellation workshop on Sunday. Always an honour and pleasure to support the shifts attendees experience 🙏

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13/07/2025

Sit Quietly

This is the most important Zen practice.
It is the classroom for living
a wise and kind life.

Sit anywhere and be quiet:
on a couch, a bed, a bench, inside, outside,
leaning against a tree, by a lake, at the ocean,
in a garden, on an airplane, in your office chair,
on the floor, in your car.
Meditation cushions are okay too.

Sit at any time: morning, night,
one minute, three years.

Wear what you've got on.
Loosen your waist so that
your belly can move with your breath.

Sit as relaxed as possible.
Relax your muscles
when starting and during sitting.

Sit with your back straight but not stiff.
Keep your head upright with your ears level.

Respect all medical conditions.
Only take a posture you can.
All postures are okay.

Do what you can do.

Keep your eyes slightly opened and out of focus.
Closing them will make you sleepy and sometimes busy.
Opening them wide will keep you busy.

Breathe naturally through your nose.
Enjoy breathing.
Feel your breath.
Watch your breath.
Become your breath.

Be like a cat purring.
Follow your breath like ocean waves
coming in and out.

When you get distracted,
come back to the simplest
and most basic experience
of being alive,
your breathing.

That's it.
No belief.
No program.
No dogma.

You do not have to be Buddhist.
You can be of any faith, religion,
race, nationality, gender,
relationship status, or capacity.

Just sit quietly,
connect with your breath,
and pay attention
to what happens.

You will learn things.

Do it when you want.
You decide how much is enough for you.
If you do it daily, it will get into your bones.

Please enjoy sitting quietly!

The only way to learn sitting quietly is to do it.

~ Tai Sheridan

01/07/2025

It was a privilege to partner with Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) throughout June to run a series of Wellbeing workshops for over 200 staff at NSW Health .

✨ During Strategies for Greater Wellbeing and Leadership Wellbeing in the Modern World — we explored essential tools and insights to support personal and professional vitality.

📌The six domains of wellbeing and how they interconnect
📌 The role of mindset and self-responsibility in shaping wellbeing outcomes
📌 Practical, accessible ways to embed mindfulness into the workday
📌 Recognising the early signs of burnout before they escalate
📌 Understanding the burnout cycle and pathways to recovery
📌 Strategies for sustainable high performance that don’t come at the cost of wellbeing.

These sessions created space for reflection, connection, and the courage to do things differently and it was powerful to witness the level of vulnerability and sharing from all who attended.

A big thank you to Michelle Williams, Gail Forrest, John Dixon, Ruth Ward and Vito Carrozzo for inviting me and supporting the workshops!

📣 If your workplace is looking for options for wellbeing strategy and budget in this new financial year, let’s chat!

28/05/2025

Thrilled to be supporting NSW Health with a series of wellbeing workshops throughout June.

📣 If you’re interested in wellbeing support for your organisation, DM for a chat

27/05/2025

It’s our last Mindful in May session tomorrow morning. How quickly the month has flown by!

Would love you to join us for a calming meditation to start your day - it’s free 🪷

⏰ 8.30-9.00am AEST
💻 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85156745115?pwd=uO1niNi4wh9jd0aZp9LDh9ByW98LXx.1

See you there! 🫶

19/05/2025

I sometimes say that without meditation and mindfulness I’d be a basket case 😵‍💫

However even with a practice that’s been going on for 12 years, I can still be a basket case - and that’s ok!

The difference now though is that I have tools available to draw on when the waters get a bit choppy, and stuff comes up that I have to deal with.

That stuff can be realising how stuck I am in old patterns, or how hard and critical I’ve been of myself.

It’s those ouch moments in life when we get insight and clarity on how we have been causing ourself and others pain and suffering through the stories we’ve been telling ourself or the automatic reactions we fall into. And when we gain that insight and the lightbulb comes on, we’ve got an opportunity to do something different.

As Carl Jung says, “until you make the unconscious conscious, it will run your life and you’ll call it fate”.

🪷The beautiful benefit of mindfulness is that it boosts our internal awareness and helps us become more conscious.

🪷We get dialled in and attuned to ourselves and the different emotional weather systems happening inside. We start to treat ourselves with more compassion and less judgement. And we have an opportunity to break those patterns that don’t serve us so well.

This morning I’m feeling grateful for seeing some really old patterns over the last week, and even though it’s been a bit messy, to be moving into a new layer of awareness and freedom, without the painful stories and self-judgement 🙏

📣 Curious how a deeper exploration of mindfulness can help you to shift some stuck patterns? I’d love to help you - book in a free 30-minute call - https://tr.ee/Jr-kG_BRcZ

Wishing you a Mindful Monday 💛

13/05/2025

“This is exactly what I needed!” - said Maria last week.

Come join us tomorrow from 8.30-9.00am for another Mindful in May session.

Together we can start the day becoming more grounded, centred and spacious 🙏

👩‍💻 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85156745115?pwd=uO1niNi4wh9jd0aZp9LDh9ByW98LXx.1

12/05/2025

I lied to myself for a long time.

Told myself I was fine. That life was going ok and even though times were hard, plenty of people were doing it tougher than me.

But the truth is I felt like a shadow in my own life. Going through the motions, putting on a smile and inwardly feeling flat, defeated and disconnected. And my energy and enthusiasm for life was slipping away.

Until a moment of clarity came and I knew I had to change things.

It was a scary, unnerving time and filled with worry about what other people would think, but deep inside I knew I was making the right decision.

Change is scary. Really scary at times. But so is living a halfhearted life and struggling to find meaningful joy, peace and gratitude.

The act of change is absolutely courageous and sometimes takes everything we’ve got, but it’s the step we have to take in order to be who we’re really meant to be and live our best and most fulfilling life.

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