Integrating Awareness - Meaningful Life Coaching and Counselling

22/04/2024

In case you have an interest in non-medicalised (yet, with access to all care you may need if something goes wrong) birthing, this may be worth a view. I just had a chat to one of the producers, and thought she sounded... well, sound.

Host a screening of Born At Home near you. Born At Home takes viewers on a journey to understand what it takes to have a positive and transformative birth experience. Featuring insights from women's personal birth stories, midwives, medical professionals and researchers, the film explores the import...

25/10/2023

Feelings/Emotions are very familiar to us. We experience them all the time. We talk about them often. But what are they, really? Where do they fit into the Mind, Body & Soul composite? Do they exist in a realm of their own? Are they messages from the divine? I came across all kinds of suggestions for the nature of feelings/emotions – some weirder than others, I must say.

So, one night many years ago, I decided to put my awareness to the task of investigating the matter thoroughly. It took me most of that night, but what I found has been very useful ever since, for the work that I do as a meaningful life coach, counsellor and psychotherapist.

Feelings and/or Emotions are very familiar to us. We experience them all the time. We talk about them often. But what are they, really?

05/10/2022

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26/04/2022

Get counselling services recognised by Medicare - sign this petition now!

Include counsellors on Medicare to Meet Australia's Mental Health Crisis

21/10/2020

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04/05/2020

We, the qualified and experienced counsellors & psychotherapists in Australia, are an untapped resource in this crisis situation! Read, share, support - please!

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29/04/2020

"How satisfied are you with your life, as it is?"
That can be a difficult question to give a meaningful answer to. There are so many factors that are part of life, and it is possible to overlook some of them, and miss that something needs addressing.
Until one day it comes crashing down on top of you. And by the time that happens, the issue may have become a lot harder to address than if you would have been on to it early.

Life Satisfaction can be assessed in various ways. This tool helps you identify which aspects of your life are strong or weak - try it now!

09/04/2020

You are Life Itself but you are also a sensitive, vulnerable human being who cannot know all the answers. You are the Absolute but you also are the keeper and protector of a wonderful, tender, shaky, fragile nervous system. You are divine but you are so brilliantly earthy too, rooted in the mud. You are pure Awareness, and yet you are a glorious uncontrollable mess, and these things do not contradict each other in the slightest, but support each other, nourish each other, and ultimately, complete each other. Nonduality is the fulfilment of duality, duality is the completion of nonduality. It cannot be otherwise. - Jeff Foster

28/03/2020

Tips for improving and maintaining your mental-emotional health - https://mailchi.mp/f56c4819bc09/improving-and-maintaining-your-mental-emotional-health-3-min-read

25/03/2020

First of all; I hope you are well and have no symptoms of COVID-19. Or any other illness for that matter!
We are currently living through an unprecedented health crisis, and I thought it would be pertinent to provide you with some information.

Your mental health is important, and in times like these it may be more important than under normal circumstances that you look after yourself mentally/emotionally/psychologically, as well as physically. As things continue to get worse, anxiety tends to set in or worsen, and depression get darker. The strain on relationships is also likely to increase, when we are more or less house bound and isolated from friends and extended family for a long period of time.

Health Minister Greg Hunt declared on 23 March that all allied health (includes counselling/psychotherapy) businesses nationally are encouraged to continue working. This advice may, of course, be amended as we continue into this crisis, but until such a time, there is really no reason why you need to refrain from having counselling/therapy with me in person. At least as long as you and I have no symptoms and have not been in contact with anyone who has symptoms, and as long as we take necessary precautions, i.e. practise recommended “social distancing” and other hygiene practices.

If you nevertheless are concerned about leaving your home to come in for an appointment, I will not hold that against you.

Then you may want to consider the option of having sessions online, using Zoom (or Skype or Facetime). I have done online sessions for several years, with clients who live too far away to be able to come and see me in person (like the couple in England that I was counselling last year). It usually works quite well, just requires a bit of foresight in regards to setting up the meeting etc. It works best if you have a laptop or desktop or tablet, but even the small screen on a smartphone will do the job.
To arrange an appointment - in person or online - for a time that suits you, call me now on (07) 3716 0600 or message me via my website form; https://www.intawa.com.au/contact-us

Stay healthy and be grateful for what you have and are!

23/03/2020

As long as we practise social distancing, you can continue with your counselling/psychotherapy. In fact, it may be important to do so, to avoid sinking into "the black Covid-19 hole".

18/02/2020

I just published this article on my website. Do have a read - you will definitely find it interesting. Even if your s*x and intimacy life is already excellent!
And please, Like & Comment and Share this article with your friends if you agree that it is a good read!

One of the most liberating mindfulness strategies for couples, to improve their flailing enjoyment of s*x and intimacy is what I call “Agenda-free s*x”.