Jane's Journal
Ready to Stop Punishing and Start Listening to Your Body?
A few weeks ago, I broke my toe. I learnt the hard way not to cough and walk in the dark. As I have been healing, I have learnt how much my healing is readying on listening to my body and I wish I had learnt more of the skills I know now when I…
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20 Quotes to Start to Inspire Body Acceptance
The past few days I have had a number of conversations about body acceptance. I imagine the conversations have been linked to me breaking my toe a few days ago, however I also know it goes much deeper than that (and I will elaborate further on that later – here it is). These conversations inspired me…
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What is the Difference Between a Goal and an Outcome?
As I was working with a client during a coaching session this week, I was asked about difference between a goal and an outcome. Subsequently, in this post I will discuss – Let’s get started! What is a Goal? The definitions of goals I discovered were – Generally goals follow the SMART process – S for Specific, M…
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Ready to Take Ownership of Your Life?
In the midst of the external chaos and pressures – the striving to do your best, the control, wearing masks of perfectionism and pleasing others – you have forgotten you are worthy. You have forgotten you are Whole. Enough. Resilient. Loveable. Brave. Capable. Creative. Courageous and have needs. Well that was my story anyway, until I decided to…
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Time to Transform Your Technology Habits?
Do you have a healthy relationship with technology? Or are you like many people and know it is time to transform your technology habits? Don’t get me wrong, technology can be really useful as long as we have control of it and have clear boundaries, not the other way round. Paying Attention to Our Technology Habits…
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Creating Boundaries With Courage
During the past few months, my boundaries have been tested again. As a recovering people-pleaser (aka the one that rarely says “no” or the “nice girl”), I am very familiar with my patterns after many, many years of inner work untangling my unhealthy boundaries. One thing that did surprise me this time though was how clear I was…
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3 Ways to Start Finding Fulfilment With Work
Last week I did a presentation for one of the Education systems in QLD. They asked me to speak about the topic “Finding Fulfilment at Work”, however I changed it to “Finding Fulfilment With Work”. Why? Because, I believe there is a different between the words “at” and “with”. For me “at” points to something…
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Becoming a Trained Teacher in Mindful Self-Compassion
I am super excited to share wiht you, I am now a trained teacher in Mindful Self-Compassion. To say I am grateful for this certification, would be an understatement, so today I wanted to share some of my adventure and learnings about becoming trained in mindful self-compassion. What is Self-Compassion? Christopher Germer in his book…
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Poem – She Let Go
During the past few years, I have been realising that life is a lot about (un)learning and giving up or untangling from what no longer serves us. Subsequently, today I wanted to share with you this poem. Hope you enjoy the “Poem – She Let Go” by Reverend Safire Rose. She Let Go… Without a thought…
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