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Do You Know Hungry?
Note: this is a long, long, post. I felt like I needed to dig into my heart and lay it on the page today. The pictures really don’t have anything to do with the text, but I couldn’t post this much text...
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Nourished Life Gratitude List Week Four
I read a quote during the week that said ‘It is not happy people who are thankful, it is thankful people who are happy’, and I agree. In the past few weeks since I have started my gratitude experiment...
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Monday Mantra: Feel Your Love
(source) How will you make those around you feel your love today? How do you want people to remember the way you touched their life? I want my patients to feel comfortable with me, so I listen to...
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Monday Mantra: Everything to Do, Done!
I have several quotes pinned to the front door of my office, and the same quotes appear on the inspiration board next to my bed. One is from J.R.R. Tolkien and the other from Margaret Thatcher....
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Monday (er…Tuesday) Mantra: A Leap of Faith
As I alluded to in Monday’s post there are some big changes happening in my life at the moment. Changes that I need to process and pull apart like tangled string before I can present them here and...
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Shatter and Seek
Two years ago this would have crushed me. I would have crawled into my bed and stayed under the covers for a week. In my cocoon of blankets I could have pretended that the world outside hadn’t changed...
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Nourished Life Gratitude List: Week Nine
Good evening / Good morning dear readers I am currently curled up on Chris’s bed finishing a university assignment, planning my long run tomorrow, and watching old episodes of Cupcake Wars (and...
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Monday Mantra: Just Dance
I don’t think a day goes by where I don’t dance at least once. Perhaps dancing isn’t the right word for it. Dancing connotes some sort of grace and elegance in the movement, so I think we can best...
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Finding Balance in a World Obsessed with Extremes
Yesterday one of my dearest blogging friends Kate wrote a wonderful post entitled ‘Death to Thinspiration‘. Go on, head over to Kate’s website for a few minutes, I’ll wait. You’re back. Wonderful....
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Falling
Today I fell. The earth tipped underneath me and gravity sucked me down. Skin torn, bones rattled, muscles mashed, and pride wounded I limped away from the experience and willed myself not to cry or...
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Nourished Life Gratitude List Week Fifteen and Gold Coast 2013
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, I am sure it is written somewhere that it takes a village to raise a runner. I am so grateful for all the love and support I have felt over the last...
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Writing: The Dragon of Creativity
Over the past six months I have been interning at a not-for-profit writer’s organisation. I have absolutely loved my time there and I am sad that I only have two weeks left with a great team and...
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Weekly Mantra: Say Yes, Then Figure it Out
Thursday (yesterday) was my first day at my new job. A huge thank you to everyone for the well wishes, and to the darling Chris for dealing with my nerves (oh, they were first-day-back-at-school...
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Nourished Life Gratitude List Week Twenty
This week has been wonderful, and hectic, and exhausting, and wonderful. You definitely use different muscles when you go back to working inside full-time. Thank goodness for running and riding, and...
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The Truth about Thoroughly Nourished Beauty
Yesterday I forgot my make-up. I was halfway to work when I realised that I hadn’t put a single thing on my face that morning but some very simple vitamin e cream to soothe my winter-running chapped...
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Exercise Anxiety: I’m still learning about balance.
Can I tell you a secret that’s not really a secret? Sometimes, I get overly anxious about my exercise. Sometimes I tune out from what my body really wants and needs and I can’t stop myself from...
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Gratitude List Week Twenty-Two
I am afraid this week I have been a little, well, needy. Just a little whiny and in need of coddling and cuddling and soothing. The thing I am most grateful for this week is the people in my life,...
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Nourished Life Gratitude List Week Twenty-Three
The days are getting longer and warmer. Spring has been waiting impatiently around the corner for the whole winter, and this week it took centre stage. No longer happy to wait in the wings September...
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R U OK Day?
Do you mind if we have some real talk today? Some ‘what’s going in your head today?’ talk. Today, September 12, is R U OK? Day. The R U OK? Foundation was established to help encourage real...
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Nourished Life Gratitude List Week Twenty-Five
I must apologise for some pre-ambling ambling self-exposing real talk. Sometimes a week is challenging and tiring and forces you to look at yourself and see where you might need to do some...
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