Rongoā Aroha - Healing Love, Love Healing

11/10/2025

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Whakawhetai ki te Atua 🫶🏽
Thank you Far North! Me and my whānau are so excited to serve another term as Mayor of the Far North!

*and we've kept our Māori ward 🙌🏽

09/10/2025

07/10/2025

I’ve been so lucky in my life journey that things have always just fallen into place, right time, right place… they call it wairua timing or divine timing…

But this isn’t the case for everyone…

I was always an observant child, my mums nickname for me is snail, I was always listening, and feeling everything around me, situations, experiences.

Naturally in tune with wairua, and nurtured to understand when you trust, it will guide you where you need to be.

16 I left school, and by chance one day while baby sitting for an aunty I was offered a job as a dental assistant, I was on good pay as a drop out from school… divine timing, an opportunity presented.

When I got older an opportunity opened for me to move to Australia, I was young enough to start fresh, scared of what that might look like, but optimistic and trusting that it was all meant to be.

After 10 years in Australia things wernt going so well, again an opportunity to change things came up, a friend asked randomly one day to buy my car, enough money to get tickets home, bring my dog home, and get myself set up again… this time fear, uncertainty and worry about $$ and things being even harder, I still came home, trusted what my wairua and heart were telling me…

Things were hard, and some days I didn’t always see the light at the end of the tunnel, still working at the dentist, but something inside was longing to do something else I loved more… I had no idea what it was but I new there was something inside wanting to be seen.

I started doing more of what I loved again, painting, travelling around nz, letting wairua lead the way… was I lost??? Possibly… did I know what I was doing or where I was going?? No…

But I remembered dreams, signs, things that were always trying to point me in the right direction.

My love of spirit, crystals, card readings, healing, everything I had been told I would never be able to do as a job in this world…

But I saw others doing what I loved, and I thought why not me… so I started diving deeper into my spiritual mahi, the things I had been taught as a child, the things I had experienced, still not even realising it was leading me to this path of healing.

3 years into being able to feel safe working with spirit (wairua) an opportunity to become acc registered, more pathways opened up to allow me to do what I loved in safe accepting environments.

Now I teach others, I hold workshop, I help others find their own gift of healing.

Times are hard for everyone.

We all need to find ways to make life better for everyone.

So it had me thinking of how, if it wasn’t for so many other people offering me pathways and opportunities to navigate my life, I wouldn’t be here where I am right now.

Chris Luxon, may be making an economy that is harsh on us all, but I believe this is also the push we all need to start building support in our own ways.

We all have to give back in some way, where we can, when we can, it can’t be lost, or our next generations will be lost.

Greed will be the end of us all, whanaungatanga means we flourish.

I’ll be looking at some pathways for school leavers to step into Mirimiri, Romiromi and Rongoa to give them an opportunity at a future.

07/10/2025

Rakaunui

I slept most of the arvo away, I woke up at 6pm

The last month has been so busy, it’s been a much needed rest.

The energy tonight is peaceful, a welcome stillness to utilise this marama energy tonight to recharge and plan my month ahead.

07/10/2025

Have you voted whanau!!!

Make it count!!

Voter returns including today have just dropped! Shout out to the 15,200 who have voted so far!

Ward table of champions:
🥇 Bay of Islands-Whangaroa
🥈 Kaikohe-Hokianga
🥉 Te Hiku

Kia kaha Ngā Tai o Tokerau!

There are still 33,251 Far Northerners still to vote! Here's the important info for the last week of voting:

▪️Postal returns of voting docs ended today. It is now too late to return your votes by post. You have to return them to a ballot box between now and midday Saturday for them to count!

▪️Ballot boxes are available in Kāeo, Kaikohe, Kaitāia, Kawakawa, Kerikeri, Ōpononi, Paihia, Rāwene (on Thursday only) or mobile ballot boxes across the district (check councils website for up to date locations)

▪️You will need to cast a special vote if you've lost your voting pack, the papers are damaged or you didn't receive any. Special vote at the locations above or mobile ballot boxes throughout this week

▪️Voting closes at midday on Saturday. Ballot boxes will be open to drop completed voting docs or to cast a special vote in Kaikohe, Kaitāia and Kerikeri only on Saturday until midday

I need your vote! Vote 1 Moko for Mayor!

07/10/2025

What rongoa maori healing did your Nannie’s do for you as a child??

Think back,

Remember.

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My nana Keitas love for music was rongoa for our whanau, her korero, her kai, her love, her love for her culture.

I remeber her using grape leaves for eczema, kawakawa balms for my pimples 🥴

But her just being nan was rongoa enough for our family.

06/10/2025

Marama healing 🌕

05/10/2025

05/10/2025

my big boy enjoyed the monster trucks today 💚🫶🏽

04/10/2025

Photo op for TK and baby daddy 🤗

Bumped into J DUBB at st Luke’s yesterday 🫶🏽

Positive vibes all day 💜

03/10/2025

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