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Nengah’s story…   When I first met Nengah 3 years ago, she had not long lost her husband to cancer. She saw me and begged for work in order to provide food for her two young boys, aged 12 and 2, as well as her mother and father in law, as this was her responsibility now that her husband had passed away! Whilst I felt so sad for Nengah, I knew the local jungle families must be my priority and so with great sadness, I was unable to help her. Day after day I watched this beautiful hard- working woman carry 20 litre buckets of river sand and stones on her head, up the jungle path to a building site. One day I was walking up the path and saw her stop a tourist man, asking him to please help her pick up the heavy bucket of stones and put it on her head- her arms obviously too weak by this time! The man picked up the bucket and placed it on her head and I watched as Nengah happily stood herself up with the heavy load, thanked the man profusely and headed off up the path. At that moment I thought my heart was going to break and I made the decision that some-how I had to help her.
10 August, 2020 /
Well, time flies when you are having fun that’s for sure and here we are, over a week gone by now since my last check-in! I feel such a deep sense of gratitude to be reporting that life goes on as per usual here in North Bali, with no dramatic action to report so far!. As I sit here today, the earth feels like she is calming. For the past three days now there has been no big tremors, in comparison to a week ago when I could visibly see and audibly hear my glass house shaking, and whilst riding my scooter, felt the bike veer off in another direction as if I had a flat tyre... now that was an experience!!
05 October, 2017 /
Hey there everyone, It’s been a while since I’ve had time to do a little update so with all that’s going on around me at the moment, I thought I better do a quick check in :) Well today is kind of an eerie day… here I sit at the stunning Poinciana Resort where I’ve been staying for a couple of days in order to get myself up to date on bookwork and upcoming retreat info, listening to the serene sound of calm ocean waters lapping the shore, knowing all too well that just kilometres down the road hundreds of local Balinese beings seek refuge on vacant land, cows in tow, from the dangers looming as Mother Nature demonstrates once again the extent of her magnificence!
24 September, 2017 /
So finally my little Bali dream home is complete… bath and shower installed, tiled bathroom floor, hot water system fully functional. And oh my goodness, what a luxury it is…laying back in that hot bath, essential oils steaming away, gazing out of my glass walls at the moonlit sky and twinkling stars that are abundantly visible here in nature. And as you do, I even lit a fire in my back yard so I could stare into the burning embers whilst laying back and just chillin’ in my bath haha. It’s such an unbelievable feeling to know the initial part of the journey is done and dusted and I can now turn my focus to the great outdoors, setting up my fire pit, planting beautiful tropical flowers and of course, my organic vegie patch.
14 July, 2017 /

Wow! So here I sit, finally enjoying the convenience of computer, kettle AND fridge running all at once without a power outage and believe me, this has been no easy task!  Yes, I know…  I will choose to live in the jungle where things really are done ‘jungle style.’  Challenging?  Absobloodylutely!!!  Frustrating?  Absofrigginlutely!!!  :) But one baby step at a time I am getting there and this time next week I will return from a few days in Darwin to stabilised electricity allowing me to FINALLY open the warung.  I may even just be laying back in my long awaited bath with my long awaited hot water system (a first for the jungle I might add), gazing out at the stunning beauty that surrounds me in this incredible place I for now, call home.  At this point there is but one word that comes to mind…. Holy-friggin-shiiiiiiiiiiit!!!   Haha, what an epic journey it’s been! 4 months of trials and tribulations, lessons learnt the easy way and lessons learnt the hard way!  It’s been refreshing to witness my own inner strength at these challenging moments and the positive subconscious programming in the form of ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’ and ‘where there’s a will there’s a way’ that have rang true in my mind and inspired me to keep moving forward when really, all I wanted to do was crawl in a hole until someone else finished the job for me!    Over the past 4 months I have experienced so many ‘ups and downs’, I’ve been misguided and misled, I’ve been ripped off, I’ve even had my credit card stolen from right under my nose and yet, as with everything, there is duality and I have been guided, I have been supported, I’ve achieved so much and had the most beautiful Angels...

07 July, 2017 /
It’s hard to believe that it’s now over one month since I left ‘my other life’ in a shipping container and boarded Virgin Flight 043 with no real idea what lay ahead for me.  In one way it seems like months and yet another, just a few short days.  Wow!  What a ride it has been!!  Imagine stepping onto the biggest emotional rollercoaster… say no more!  My ego and all of its fear based stories terrorised me for 16 full days and as much as I tried to practice what I preach, no amount of emotional healing would suffice…  I felt like a huge lead weight had been dumped on my shoulders and each time I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror, I couldn’t help but notice how this stress was taking a toll!  I looked old, I felt old… I never feel old!!…I felt heaviness in the right side of my heart and a weight, as if someone had cut me open in the middle of the night and placed a brick in my gut!  I smiled yet it was just a motion.. I did not feel joy!  I always feel joy!  So much fear rising to the surface, gripping terror that had me lying awake at night wondering “what the heck I was doing and just what the bloody hell I had done!”… yet weirdly enough, in all of this, I had the knowing that somehow, I was right where I was meant to be… 
17 March, 2017 /
COLON CLEANSING… We can learn so much by just sitting and observing nature. For instance... a sick monkey was captured on film bashing the hard outer shell of a seed in order to get to, and eat the kernel inside... interestingly enough, we now know that this little kernel, as with all fruit seeds except for citrus, is full of vitamin B17 Laetrile- known by many as 'nature's chemo'!COLON CLEANSING… We can learn so much by just sitting and observing nature. For instance... a sick monkey was captured on film bashing the hard outer shell of a seed in order to get to, and eat the kernel inside... interestingly enough, we now know that this little kernel, as with all fruit seeds except for citrus, is full of vitamin B17 Laetrile- known by many as 'nature's chemo'!
25 February, 2017 /
A very belated ‘Happy New Year ‘ everyone!! Time flies when you are having fun they say… and I can assure you first hand, that it also flies when you are not having fun! I absolutely understand now why they say that moving house is one of the most stressful things you can go through! The only good thing about the whole situation is that you get to have an incredibly thorough ‘clean out’ along the way, and that does feel good! Cleaning out the clutter is so good for the Soul. When our home is clean and clutter free we automatically feel more at peace internally! So, what if there was a way to feel an even deeper cleansing and inner peace? What if ‘your body’ was your only true house/home, wouldn’t you want to keep that clean?
25 February, 2017 /
HALLELUJA!  I THINK WE ARE FINALLY GETTING IT!!!  …Things are definitely changing, people really are ‘waking up’ and thank goodness for that!  Here I am, sitting in a rawfood organic cafe in Ubud Bali, enjoying my sirsak healing elixir, green tea and raw desert as I watch the customers flow in, one after the other.  It’s so inspiring to see orders for fresh squeezed juices, smoothie bowls and vegan/vegetarian meals and deserts.  Finally we are realising, so it seems, that the way we have been living our lives is just not working, and at long last, making the change to a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle.
24 February, 2017 /

Me, Myself and I

 
Surrounded by nature, I will soon be embarking on my 8th 10 day water fast, which means nothing but pure fresh spring water, straight from the rocks for 10 whole days and 10 whole nights. 
I am so excited to be doing this 'fast' in beautiful Bali, away from everyone and everything, except a few locals, the trees, the waterfall and the monkeys :)  It's time to grow, time to 'go within' and face the shadows that still lay lurking there.  It's time to take this 'game of life' to the next level and move forward again on my spiritual journey of life. 
Whilst I am facilitating retreats, I give of myself wholeheartedly, 100%, to those that come to me for guidance and healing and so, every now and then, my Soul yearns for that same nurturing and growth.  I honor that... after all, if I do not, I will be no good to anybody.... a lesson that I in the past, along with many of the guests who end up at my retreats have learned the hard way.  
18 July, 2016 /