The invisible injury
When someone has an accident and loses a limb or is visibly scarred their injury is one they will carry for the rest of their lives and it is an injury that is obvious to the world. When they meet someone there is empathy for their struggles. They didn’t have a choice in what happened…
Read MoreSurrender and let go to grow
It’s natural to build walls around our hearts and souls to protect us as we navigate through life’s adventures and challenges. It’s natural but it doesn’t always serve us. In the height of the moment it is definitely necessary but to really experience all there is to this life we must surrender and let go…
Read MoreDon’t let your past define your future
By | Don’t let your past define your future… I definitely had emotionally abusive adoptive parents (thankfully my real parents that I reconnected with later in life are truly awesome!). I don’t need this article in Goalcast on 6 Signs you had an emotionally abusive parent to work that out. In fact, my adoptive…
Read MoreWant instant revenue? Start with the low hanging fruit
By | The natural way of business is that it ebbs and flows. When it’s flowing, you are in your element. But when things get quiet, some business owners panic and don’t know what to do. The easiest and most fruitful (pardon the pun), is to start with the low hanging fruit. What is low hanging fruit The low…
Read MoreWandering Wedding Dress in England
By | England hadn’t been very high on our wish list of places to visit. But before I upset any of our English friends, hear me out first as to why. My only understanding of England had come from the English people I knew in Australia. They used to tell us that it was dreary…
Read MoreFeeling alone? Are you choosing loneliness
By | As the car pulled out of the driveway and headed down the road I looked out the rear window and watched my home vanish into the distance. I was overwhelmed by emotions. Grief for the loss of the only family I had ever known. Fear of the future that was completely unknown. Self-doubt…
Read MoreTaming the black dog of depression as an entrepreneur
By | I wanted to call this post “I wish I was dead” but decided against it because it was, well, too depressing. The reality is though, that’s exactly what was going through my head this morning as I was finally taken over by the black dog of depression. I’ve been pushing myself outside my…
Read MoreThese 21 business habits changed my life
By | These 21 business habits I am about to share with you, combined with learning to love and accept myself fully, are what I attribute to the quality and success of the life I live now…travelling the world in luxury with my husband, doing what I love every day. My life used to be…
Read MoreHow to have a stress-free Christmas
By | Christmas time can be a hugely stressful and overwhelming experience for most families. The budget usually blows out, the credit cards get a beating, you have to visit the in-laws, there’s so much to organize. For a lot of people, the real meaning of Christmas becomes lost in a whirlwind of eggnog, Christmas…
Read MoreWandering Wedding Dress in Tuscany
By | Tuscany was an unexpected surprise for us to visit. Having been before many years ago when I was single I absolutely loved the passion the Italians have for both food and family. It rubbed off on me so much that when I came home I found myself visiting local markets for fresh produce…
Read MoreWandering Wedding Dress in Chiang Mai
By | Thailand is one of our favourite countries to visit, hence why it had to be part of our honeymoon year of travel and the wandering wedding dress. What we love most about it is the kind and gentle nature of the people, the warm climate temperatures and the unique flavours of the food…
Read MoreWandering Wedding Dress in Bavaria
By | I chose to have the wandering wedding dress in Bavaria Germany because in 2017 we visited this area for the very first time. We didn’t know what to expect and had visions of the sound of music mountains, cows with bells clanging, and lots of beer drinking. There were definitely incredible mountains, cows…
Read MoreWedding dress shopping experiences
The week after my first wedding dress shopping experience with my bridesmaids, my fiancé and I began our next year of travel. First stop was down south to Melbourne for six weeks. Melbourne is the home of the other half of my bridal party as well as an incredible woman who has been like a…
Read MoreFinding the perfect wedding dress
It was more than a year since becoming engaged when we finally decided to set a date. We had been travelling permanently for a year and loving it. Back in our hometown of Sunshine Coast Australia for Christmas we finally succumbed to the pressure from family and friends and set a date for the following…
Read MoreMy journey to becoming engaged
At the ripe old age of forty-five, I had pretty much given up on the whole idea of becoming engaged. Let alone one day being married. I felt blessed to have finally found a man who could accept all of my bad habits. Someone I could comfortably spend more than twenty-four hours with. For me,…
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