Shadow work is looking within, to find the lost or hidden parts of ourselves and integrating these elements into a robust, authentic, inspired and empowered super being.

At its core, shadow work is the process of exploring and integrating the parts of ourselves that we have repressed, denied, or...

Under the direction of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the Australian Federal Government is seeking to pass a bill that will effectively censor free speech on digital platforms for much of the Australian public. Presented as an essential measure to protect vulnerable Australians from the...

Our inherent compulsion to create and share stories is what sets us apart from all other species. While our animal counterparts are locked into instinctive patterns of behaviour, humans possess the cognitive ability to add meaning to and record narratives of past events. Cows chew grass, birds...

An accurate definition of the shadow is everything within us that we’re unaware of; everything that is not in the light of consciousness. 

Our shadow includes our blind spots—the things that we don’t know that we don’t know about ourselves—as well as the things...

A new and exciting phenomenon is gaining ground in popular culture; people are beginning to talk seriously about doing their shadow work. The idea of shadow work is now being readily promoted by therapists and coaches alike on social media and podcasts. Some writers even seem to know what...

When was the last time you experienced being content? And by content, I don’t mean happy. Happiness comes and goes like the weather; content is a state of being that can be cultivated and maintained through a combination of mindfulness and shadow work. Ontology is the study or knowledge of...

My fascination with all things dark and shadowy began at my birth. Born blue and not breathing, I was resuscitated and placed in a humicrib, separated from my mother. This disruption to my attachment bond sent my orientation reflex into hyperdrive, and began my desperate search to reconnect with...

In a previous blog, I promoted an unconventional approach to working with addiction. That approach being, just saying no. I have many years of experience with many different approaches to addiction and recovery, and in my opinion, this is the simplest and most effective. The addiction treatment...

Until you develop a witnessing self, you will continue to identify with your thoughts, feelings, sensations and fantasies, mistaking these experiences for who, and what, you are. Your life will occur to you as an undifferentiated and involuntary set of stimuli and automatic reactions. You will...

My career experience with addiction spans three decades and culminated with my appointment as a Senior Nurse consulting at The Sanctuary in Byron Bay. At the time, this was the most exclusive and expensive addiction treatment clinic in the world, whose clientele included Hollywood stars, royalty...

Many of my coaching clients report difficulty with using the word “no”. 

Sometimes it’s because they have trouble hearing it and other times it’s because they have trouble saying it. 

Does this sound familiar? 

I have reflected on the possibility that these...

In case of EMERGENCY!

Immediately do nothing.

It was a busy afternoon in the Emergency Department of the Gold Coast Hospital when the doors to the trauma bay flung open and in scurried the paramedics with the first multi-trauma case of the shift. Some unfortunate soul had been involved in a...