Photographer. Researcher. Advocate for A Bill of Human Rights and Responsibilities
About
I feel very fortunate to be able to help people connect to their Spirit, that most vital part of our Mind that is always there but not really understood. Once people realise what is happening inside, they can relate to what is happening around them and reflect this back to their own true feelings. It opens them up to learning how to listen more easily, more expansively and to find the words to say what they really want to say. And not what they think they are hearing. It certainly alleviates a lot of confusion and unhappiness about their Self and their sense of clarity and inborn natural common sense.
It can be so easy to unwittingly see life through a narrow lens, sensing, not sensing, confused and semi awake until we are forced to feel all the stirrings of our Heart. It is an ache, waiting no longer, but needing to feel ignited, joined to our Soul, so as to walk tall and strong in our truth, and power.
It may seem really weird at first, but this is how a healthy mind operates. And how a well being thrives.
For me, to live well is to have a strong Spirit, a clear Mind and an intimate relationships with life as it continuously moves through me. I might get a bit wobbly at times but I never lose my Self to the chaos and struggles that cross my path.
I love having my feet firmly planted in both worlds. It is our most natural right and it breaks my Heart knowing it is very simple to teach and would raise the consciousness and wellbeing of people exponentially. It changes who you are. It restores your Mind and connectivity and sews a much more open and empathic Heart into the more delicate fabrics of Society. A place we all reside but can be afraid to visit.
I had to dig deep to find out who I was and how to grow a loving relationship with my Self. No-one was going to be able to do it for me. I had to take my time and figure it out by feeling my way through all the crummy moments.
Only I was going to be able to fill the emotional void and give my Self what I most needed to feel loved, cared for and nourished.
And to be there for my Self in all the ways only I knew how, so as to enjoy the freedom of a peaceful Mind completely at home in my Self.
I hear people talk and I take it all in. When it comes down to it, I always have choices about how I want to elevate my life and so I’ve learnt how to choose wisely. Its taken practice and will continue to be a practice for as long as I am walking this earth.
Deep down I always knew how I wanted to live and how I wanted my Mind to feel. I would say it has been my quiet yearning and is intimately entwined into the meaning of my existence.
For as long as I could remember, I had sensed my Soul whispering. It hummed away, sometimes strong and sometimes faint but always there.
I didn’t have a language to communicate what I felt, nor a voice. Big thoughts and big feelings lived silently inside of me. Eventually I crumbled and was forced to sit, to make space and to let all I knew and wanted to say and do express through me.
I knew I had up until that point the exact right experiences to grapple with, and the daunting task ahead of me was to remove all the suffocating conditioning and habits of my very fatigued Mind that said life was somehow my fault. I physically felt cloaked in a deep sadness, shame, voicelessness and powerlessness. It was a dreadful and confronting experience to unleash.
I laboured with a very depleted physical body and a fractured nervous system. To slowly rebuild the foundations of my Mind and to restructure my entire outer world was incredibly arduous work.
I was observing my Separated Self and the mental noise in my head, causing heartbreaking conflict and terrible suffering. I desperately wanted my Heart to reflect every part of my outer world, exactly and with all the sincerity of who I was feeling inside, in my Heart.
At first all I could do was sit, and move very quietly. There was not a drop of space left inside my mushy head.
Because my physical being was so fragile I felt naked and I felt raw. It was I would say, with Grace, I held dear to the comfort of this expansive all knowing pouring into my being, guiding my fractured Mind. At times, the information felt overwhelming because I was not yet strong enough to harness it. But with time, lots of space and dedication I was eventually able to bring my physical being into alignment with my Spiritual being. To unite.
Unlearning the heavy weight of society’s conditioning and retraining my brain was a very painful experience, and the lessons took a lot of courage to learn. It also felt excruciatingly lonely. I kept wishing my future would be here now, to save me.
My eyes streamed for a very long time as I released the sadness, but slowly, over time all I needed came my way as I took responsibility for sitting with the emotional wounds held in my mind and body. It was a continuous movement of feeling, releasing, healing, restoring and learning to love. Over and over.
I would not be able to do the work in Human Rights and Responsibilities today if it weren’t for all the valuable life experiences that taught me the full expansiveness of my worth, and that this worth, once hidden beneath my shaky nervous system and voicelessness is today my quiet super power for lasting change and hope in a world that is struggling to see its Self and our shared humanity.
Growing my power, my ability to walk this earth with clarity, strength of Spirit and softness of Heart took much longer than I could have imagined. It is what I would call a strangely beautiful experience. A one off I am very glad to never repeat, but very necessary if I am to walk hand in hand with terrible suffering and the touch of love and forgiveness.
It is all too easy to unconsciously put our Selves down. To accept less, to work harder to please more, and remain disappointed and secretly confused about why we still feel wobbly, hopeless and bad inside. Undeserving has woven its shame into our collective psyche, without understanding how it got there, let alone being able to recognise this is what keeps us feeling diminished and small in our outlook.
The mind training page on this website touches on the lessons I had to learn. I had to fall hard so that I could crack open and meet my Self as only my heart knew. I’ve always felt my Spirit, my Soul. Words cannot really describe the enormous waves of emotion that pour over me on a daily basis. To be able to hold such emotion and feel them so deeply is my gift, and to be able to see, hear and read light beyond the visible is an extension of that gift. It is how I do this work.
We use our gifts to meet the full worth of our Self. It is our joy and responsibility, because when we touch our own Heart with great care and compassion, we naturally touch the Hearts of others. It is how we create the world we want to live in and share.
Without forgiveness we are not whole. When we face our Self we face the wholeness of life, strung together by our capacity to forgive and be forgiven.
We are supposed to live in two worlds. This is our natural way to staying attuned, conscious and free.
This was my journey, my path to unravel and make sense of. I would not feel my sense of belonging without the loving guide of my strong Spirit, my Soul.
Our Indigenous Peoples know who they are. They have no confusion about their sense of belonging or identity. They hold valuable knowledge, openly sharing generously and willingly, if only we would listen, and embrace with the same open Heart.
It will come. In time, when we learn the value of patience, generosity, gentleness, fearlessness and forgiveness. The qualities of a strong Spirit and gentle Heart, unified to create a well Being. It will come and we will be a leading example to the rest of the world, guided by the worlds oldest living culture and holders of knowledge and law. And we will all agree on what it takes to create a Strong Spirit and a caring Heart, embedding it into the Constitution as a reminder for now and for all those to come.
What I do and know
I talk about matters of the Heart.
The humbugs that skirt beneath the dusty cellar of our Mind.
I talk about Love. Its origin, its light infusing our veins all the time.
I talk about meeting our Mind.
Laying solid foundations rich in human frailty, beauty, courage and tenacity.
I talk about joining the dots of our own making with those whose permission we have constitutionally granted, at will, to ensure our proper care and protection.
I talk about being relational...
...values, valuable, valued.
And Listening.
Daring to courageously walk into the fog, to redirect our gaze.
To invite in a new stream of consciousness.
It can be said we become a teacher of our hardest lessons, ensuring we learn them well. My Spirit, my Soul was always there, communicating with me and it is what kept me so grounded throughout my most trying years. And yet, I still fell hard to teach me to truly trust my Spirit in every moment so as to feel my full human worth. And so this is what I now do. I help people understand how to connect so that they live happily in two worlds and feel at one with their Self. I want to grow this foundational knowledge and embed it Constitutionally into our way of thinking, so our society is safeguarded by a government who understands the Right Way of listening, cherishes the human Spirit and the full worth of our children so we remember instinctively how to care.
For many years I would often wonder why I didn’t belong. Why I didn’t I fit in and why I was feeling lost and without purpose, asking my Self what it was I was good at even though I knew deep down I was good at lots of things. When I stopped listening to the confusing world, and learned fully how to listen to my Self, I realised I was naturally living in a way that felt right. I was continuously in the motions of living my purpose. It was at this crossroad that I had to reconcile and forgive not only my Self, but a society that teaches us to feel far less than our full worth. This was my path to walk so that I had an expanse of the right experiences to grow my inner and outer knowledge and to be sure I was grasping the whole of society’s dilemmas.
A still Mind will always invite in the very best of who we are. And sew the seeds of change wherever we go.