The Signs Of Life Psychology

23/07/2025

She is a bitter sweet symphony this life.

21/07/2025

Always with me 💖

Squish 🌈🙏💪

21/07/2025

I rewatched Donnie Darko a haunting meditation on time, identity, and existential rupture.

Donnie: “Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?”
Frank: “Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?”

This exchange is more than surreal it’s ontological. A challenge to the assumed self.
The film asks: What is real? What is choice? Is madness a symptom or a signal?

Another line that lingers:
“Every living thing dies alone.”

Donnie becomes both prophet and patient caught in a tangent universe, but reflecting the very real fragmentation of adolescence and the search for meaning in a disenchanted world.

Donnie Darko isn’t just cult cinema it’s a portal into philosophical inquiry disguised as teenage angst.

Donnie blurs the line between insanity and insight. Sometimes, to see the truth, you have to step outside consensus reality and be willing to stand alone in it.

He reminds us that loneliness is real, but not the end of the story. Beneath the chaos, love still matters. Even brief connections can anchor us in the void.

18/07/2025

Last night I was scrolling aimlessly and stumbled across a video that mentioned Andrea Gibson had recently passed away. I didn’t know who they were at the time, but something about it made me pause.

I started looking into their work and then I found their poetry. And I was floored.

Raw, beautiful, painfully honest. The kind of words that reach straight into your chest and name something you didn’t know needed naming.

It’s strange to only discover someone’s brilliance after they’re gone. But even through that, their voice and message still feel so alive.

Rest in peace, Andrea Gibson. I’m grateful to have found your work, even if it was too late to say thank you in real time.

And thank goodness that time is a construct and love can transcend and echo through eternity.

17/07/2025

Thank you, Kit Klin from Nature Based Therapy, for all your hard work and dedication to supporting others in celebrating their authentic selves and the wonders of the natural world.

We ponder plants and self: a conversation between two busy social work mums.

“Blessed to be anchored in earth, lineage, and friends who are deeply engaged in the mystery… tribes and landscapes all around Australia and overseas.”
– Lani ❤️☘️
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16/07/2025

From Armour to Awareness: Leading Through Courage, Compassion, and Consciousness

As Brené Brown observes, “You learn courage by couraging.”
It is forged in the arena in moments when the voice trembles, the heart remains open, and one chooses presence over avoidance.

Leadership means standing in the fire: facing criticism, gossip, and projection.
Many harsh judgments, Brown reminds us, come from the “cheap seats”—those unwilling to risk vulnerability.

In conscious leadership, we don’t seek comfort: we cultivate the capacity to hold discomfort and complexity with integrity.

The Integral Lens: A Framework for Conscious Leadership
Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory provides a multidimensional map for leadership development. It reminds us that leadership is not just awakening: it is a process: waking up, growing up, cleaning up, and showing up.

Waking Up expands awareness beyond ego-bound identity into transpersonal and nondual consciousness.

Growing Up moves us through worldviews from ego-centric to world-centric to kosmo-centric—each requiring greater complexity and care.

Cleaning Up is shadow work: examining fear, shame, control, and moral superiority. As Wilber notes, “You can only transcend what you first include.”

Showing Up requires a whole-system embodiment across Wilber’s four quadrants:

I (Interior Individual) – emotional regulation, mindfulness, and self-awareness
We (Interior Collective) – relational intelligence, communication, and cultural sensitivity
It (Exterior Individual) – observable behavior, outcomes, and embodied action
Its (Exterior Collective) – systems, structures, and organizational dynamics

When one or more quadrants are overlooked, leadership becomes fragmented resulting in imbalance through excessive focus on the self (I), systems (Its), or spirit (We/I), at the expense of integration and wholeness.

15/07/2025

July News from the Signs of Life - https://mailchi.mp/deakin/natures-alchemy-news-from-the-signs-of-life-6423798

14/07/2025

CPACT Elective Spotlight: Herbalism & Psychedelic Support 🌿

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03/07/2025

Jet lag is better with you ☘️ ❤️

01/07/2025

Alanis Morissette’s Belfast performance last night was a powerful reminder of the impact she’s had on an entire generation.

In the 1990s, her voice broke through the noise raw, emotional, unapologetic. At a time when women in music were often expected to be polished and palatable, Alanis brought rage, vulnerability, and truth to the mainstream. She shifted the landscape, showing that female artists could be complex, outspoken, and deeply human : and still be heard.

Her songs became anthems for those navigating the messy, beautiful contradictions of coming of age. She didn’t just sing about emotions she validated them, especially for young women who had never seen themselves reflected so honestly in music.

Last night, that legacy continued. During one of her songs, a series of slides displayed confronting statistics on gender-based violence and inequality. The final message read:

“Why are you so afraid of the divine feminine? She cares for us all.”

It was more than nostalgia: it was a statement. Alanis continues to use her platform to challenge systems, honour feminine strength, and speak truth to power.

30/06/2025

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28/06/2025

Returning home soon after a magically creative, inspiring and connected adventure.

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