Tania Sloan - Living Sacred

26/06/2025

This year marks 5 years since I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

In 2019, my world shifted in a way I never expected. That journey taught me just how important it is to have the right support. Not just medical, but emotional, physical, and psychological care. Now, five years on, I’m honoured to be working with Cancer Wellness Support, an organisation that provides exactly that care and compassion for people living with cancer, as well as their carers and families.

This July, I’m participating in the Dry July Foundation campaign to raise funds that directly help the people we walk alongside every day.

I’ve set a goal of $1000, which will provide around 29 therapies for people navigating one of the hardest chapters of their lives.

Why do I do Dry July?

Because the Dry July Foundation supports organisations like ours, ones that are there during the journey, not just in the lab. Yes, research is vital. But people living with cancer today need to be seen, heard, and held. That’s what we do, thanks to the generosity of supporters like you.

Every 3 minutes, someone in Australia is diagnosed with cancer. Over 1 million people are currently living with it. The impact ripples far beyond the diagnosis — to families, carers, friends. Often, very little is offered to support those who are holding it all together behind the scenes.

If you can find it in your heart to give, no matter the amount, you’ll be making a real difference in someone’s life including mine (lymphoedema management). Your support helps us offer comfort, strength, and hope when it’s needed most.

Thank you so much for reading and for standing beside us.

Here’s my donation link: https://www.dryjuly.com/users/tania-sloan
With blessings and profound gratitude,
Tania 💛🙏🦋

I have signed up for Dry July to raise money for people affected by cancer. Please show your support and make a donation.

20/06/2025

Winter Solstice blessings to you all

27/05/2025

What a lovely explanation about being here on this earth.

24/05/2025

21/01/2025

Are you familiar with the “Let Them” theory? I’ll tell you friends the more I grow the more I am okay with accepting the “Let Them” in my own life and relationships.

This is something that took me a very long time to learn. I used to tolerate a lot because I didn't want to lose people. But I learned the hard way if they were really my people, they would never treat me like that. Don't make the mistake of being so understanding and forgiving that you overlook the fact that you're being repeatedly disrespected.

Let them be upset.
Let them judge you.
Let them misunderstand you.
Let them gossip about you,
Let them ignore you.
Let them be "right."
Let them doubt you.
Let them not like you.
Let them not speak to you.
Let them run your name in the ground.
Let them make you out to be the villain.
Whatever it is that people want to say about you, let them!

Kindly step aside and LET THEM.

The hard truth is they know how much they are hurting you. And they just simply don't care. They did it knowing it could cause them to lose you. And they did it anyway. People that love you care about how they make you feel. The end. Let them go.

There will be people that would rather lose you than be honest about what they've done to you. Let them go.

The lack of respect was the closure. The lack of apology was the closure. The lack of care was the closure. The lack of accountability was the closure. The lack of honestly was the closure. Let them go.

Make the decision to no longer sit at tables where you might be the topic when you get up. Let them go.

You can still be kind. You can even still love them deeply. But do it from the distance they created in their words and actions. Access to you is a privilege they have proven they can’t be trusted with. Let them go.

You don’t need to tell your side of the story. God already knows. Let God fight the battle for you. Let them go.

It’s taken me a long time to get here. Sleepless nights, countless tears, managing a range of emotions filled with anger, disappointment, confusion and deep hurt. Lots of self-reflection, self-preservation, deep prayer and seeking wisdom from those much wiser than me.

If you are struggling with this, please know you are not alone. We will never understand why hurt people hurt people. But we can do the hard work to grow ourselves. Because healed people do in fact heal people.

Don’t you dare let them steal your joy.
Don’t you dare let them steal your light.
Don’t you dare let them steal your peace.
You are in control of that.

Hold tight to what you can control and release your grip on what you can’t control.
Let them go.

Mel Robbins

02/01/2025

Dandelion was the first essence I ever made as part of the Essences module of the Energy Healing Dip taught by the magical wisdom keeper, Jacqui Bushell. I was hooked for life.

"The dandelion is the only flower that represents the three celestial bodies of the sun, moon, and stars: The yellow flower resembles the sun, the puff ball resembles the moons, and the dispersing seeds resemble the stars.

The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep.

Every part of the dandelion is useful: root, leaves, flower. It can be used for food, medicine, and dye for colouring.
Up until the 1800s, people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, malva and chamomile.

The name dandelion is taken from the French word “dent de lion” meaning lion’s tooth, referring to the coarsely-toothed leaves. 🦁

Dandelions have one of the longest flowering seasons of any plant.

Dandelion seeds are often transported away by a gust of wind and they travel like tiny parachutes. Seeds are often carried as many as five miles from their origin!

Birds, insects, and butterflies consume nectar or seeds of dandelion.

Honey from bees pollinating dandelions is quite delicious. 🐦 🐛 🐜 🦋 🐝.

Dandelion flowers do not need to be pollinated to form seeds.

Root of dandelion can be used as a substitute for coffee.

Dandelion is used in folk medicine to treat infections and liver disorders. Tea made of dandelion act as a diuretic.

If you know dandelions, they’ll grow shorter stalks to spite you.

Dandelions are, quite possibly, the most successful plants that exist. They are masters of survival worldwide."

- shared from Enlightened Mind
~ Author Unknown
Art by Laron G. S. via Midjourney

26/12/2024

We do not become healers.
We came as healers. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become storytellers.
We came as carriers of the stories that
we and our ancestors actually lived. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become artists. We came as artists. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not become writers.. dancers.. musicians.. helpers.. peacemakers. We came as such. We are.
Some of us are still catching up to what we are.

We do not learn to love in this sense. We came as Love. We are Love. Some of us are still catching up to who we truly are.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Artist: Kelogsloop

16/12/2024

Hahaha 💛

10/09/2024

Sometimes I think I'm like superman, powered by the sun.

I stepped away from my desk to reset and start another task. Cancer Wellness Support in Leura has beautiful gardens that are serene and coming to life after Winter.

Standing facing the sun, the warmth on my face, It's an absolute joy to watch new buds arrive, flowers and bees in unison, the Winter flowers dying off. My favourite tree is still bare like its holding out for something special.

16/08/2024

When you take your PERSON to work day.

14/08/2024

I have been involved with Cancer Wellness Support for around 8 years, as a therapist, a member, a client and now also as a staff member.

As a recipient of some of these services on a regular basis especially the Lymphoedema massage, I wish to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported us through Dry July and who donated, came along to our Trivia Night where I was the Master of Games and for buying raffle tickets.

Many blessings to you and your families and I hope that if you ever have the need for support as a cancer patient, a carer or family member - you are all welcome.

This is what your donations are paying for....

12/08/2024

Shared from She's the Love

Patience visited me
And it reminded me
That good things take time to come to fruition
And grow slowly with stability

Peace visited me
And it reminded me
That I may remain calm through the storms of life
Regardless of the chaos surrounding me

Hope visited me
And it reminded me
That better times lay ahead
And it would always be there to guide and uplift me

Humility visited me
And it reminded me
That I may achieve it
Not by trying to shrink myself and make myself less
But by focusing on serving the world and uplifting those around me

Kindness visited me
And it reminded me
To be more gentle, forgiving and compassionate toward myself
And those surrounding me

Confidence visited me
And it reminded me
To not conceal or suppress my gifts and talents
In order to make others feel more comfortable
But to embrace what makes me me

Focus visited me
And it reminded me
That other people’s insecurities and judgements about me
Are not my problem
And I should redirect my attention
From others back to me

Freedom visited me
And it reminded me
That no one has control over my mindset, thoughts and wellbeing
But me

And love visited me
And it reminded me
That I need not search for it in others
As it lies within me.

- Tahlia Hunter

Gratitude to the unknown Artist 💛