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​Nuture and cultivate love for yourself. The power of love comes from within. It’s deserving of your attention. Focus on how you can love.  Reach out, ask for help. To think you are alone, hopeless and helpless is not true. There is always someone to help you. Help is always there even when you think otherwise. Continue reading “Love for one’s self.”

“What day is it ?” I asked. “It’s today,” they answered. “The best day, ” I said, nodding my head. “Yes” they all answered. “Today is today, yesterday has gone, and tomorrow is yet to come,” I added.

Dear Owen and  Ellena, I hope you will see the LOVE and JOY behind my writing. Life is meant to be shared with LOVE and JOY. Your perspective depends on how you respond to your experiences. Life is what you make it.  You will travel through the valleys, up and over hills and mountains. You are responsibleContinue reading “Letter to my Children”

A look at today, yesterday and tomorrow. Yesterday has gone. I will let go of it. There is nothing I can do today to change my past. I have not forgotten my past. I am letting it go. Everday for the rest of my life I will remind myself not to focus on the past.Continue reading “The Journey Begins”

Nuture and cultivate love for yourself. The power of love comes from within. It’s deserving of your attention.Focus on how you can love yourself. How can you love others if you don’t first love yourself. This is not a selfish. To think you are alone, hopeless and helpless is not true. There is always someoneContinue reading “Love yourself”

I have had major episodes of depression over the last 18 years starting inexplicably when I was 40. I have had four extended times in hospital to review medication and to receive group and individual therapy. The last three episodes came one after the other with only a few months in between. I managed theContinue reading “Thoughts CAN be changed.”

Depression is different for every person. There are I acknowledge similarities in thoughts, feelings and behaviours between people. Each person though comes from different life experiences and this can’t be replicated. How you respond to depression is way more important to focus on than the symptoms you have. I can’t stress this enough. Focus onContinue reading “Focus on what helps.”

The other day I was not feeling well. I was tired. The kind of tired that is mind numbing. I drifted from place to place in a grey, wet fog. I attempted simple tasks randomly over and over again. I was unlucky, clumsy, vague. I won’t go into detail. Except to say there was plentyContinue reading “Sleep.”

Just recently I went to Moruya for a two day quilting workshop. We were given fantastic morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and even champagne and chocolate. We were also shown some stretching exercises to do when sitting at a sewing machine and we were given massages if we wanted them. Oh…we did do some sewingContinue reading “Planet Quilting”

This morning whilst I was under the shower I thought how grateful I am to have hot water. This started me thinking about what I can be grateful for. How grateful I am to have clean water to drink. How grateful I am to have enough water to use on the garden. How grateful IContinue reading “Being Grateful”