December 2013

52 Exercises Quest Ends: Swimming Laps, Endings and New Beginnings

52 Exercises Quest Ends: Swimming Laps and New Beginnings

I’m wearing a bikini, a sun hat and sunglasses. I enter the pool gingerly even though it’s hot outside and the water is warm too. I sink in slowly and then swim,

52 Exercises No.51: Dance Show and Dealing With Anxiety

52 Exercises: #51 Dance Show and Dealing With Anxiety

It wasn’t a real dance show. Just our small dance class of five women performing for our

Warning! Danger Ahead: Festive Season Survival Guide

This is the most dangerous time of year. Either I feel like I’ve done so well over the past year that I deserve a treat, or I feel as if I haven’t achieved enough

52 Exercises: #50 Thai Boxing and Life After Depression

As we drive off to a gym in the Noosa hinterland where professional Muay Thai boxers train and where we’ll be joining them for a training session I feel curiously

52 Exercises: #49 Kundalini Yoga and Finding Your Inner Truth

The end of the year is nigh and my ever truthful Bowen therapist says I am tired. It’s not a comment on the way I look but a factual statement.
“I wonder

My First Best Friend and Your Most Important Personal Story

I’d love to rewrite history and tell you a cute personal story about my first best friend. It would be a story about little girls playing hopscotch, plaiting each other’s

Zambezi River Photos

The Zambezi River in Mana Pools National Park is very different from the raging mass of water that thunders over Victoria Falls. A few hundred kilometers

52 Exercises: #48 Killer Steps for a Natural High

Now the 52 Exercises Quest is almost over I feel the need to up the ante. There are all kinds of exercises I could do like learning the high trapeze at Circus

5 Books for Adventurous People

Looking for more books to keep you on track with your adventures or inspire you to go off on some adventures of your own? Here are a few books I’ve been