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I kept learning and studying (mostly because it really is my greatest passion). 

I learnt about mindfulness, acceptance therapy, narrative therapy - everything and anything that was based in truth and not loaded with toxic positivity or spiritual bypassing. 

Then, when my daughter was 12 years old, she started having anxiety and panic attacks (by that stage I was no longer suffering from agoraphobia).

While, I was no stranger to anxiety, personally or professionally, it was such a painfully difficult time that continued for years.  The Soulful Moment Gift Collection came about because giving gifts is my love language - I wanted to give my daughter something to say 'I get you are going through a hard time and it is hard, I care, I believe you, I love you YET you still have to go to school, you still need to continually step out of your comfort zone because you are not going let anxiety stop you from doing anything, we will get through this".

It was during this period that I also did the most in-depth inner work on healing my emotional wounds which stemmed from childhood trauma.  

I had to do this work so I could parent my daughter from a place of love and wellness and not from my unresolved unhealed wounds. 

I think every mother owes it to themselves and their child(ren) to do the difficult work of facing any wounds, baggage, issues, challenges - whatever you want to call it - we all have some.  Healing them so they aren’t always casting a shadow over our lives affecting how we parent, how we love and how we show up in the world.

We need to manage our anxiety, our sadness, our grief, our disappointment, our shame so we can show our children how to deal with difficult emotions.   The Soulful Moment products were created to help with this, to help teach our children how to manage those uncomfortable difficult moments of life..

As Mothers need to learn how to be kind, caring and loving towards ourselves, so we can teach our children how to self care.

My favourite number is 6 and my favourite letter is S (is it weird to have a favourite letter?).

One of my favourite things to do, is go on retreats - all different types, just for the experience and the adventure of discovering new things.  Whether it be solo or with others, it is always enlightening and rejuvenating. 

A few of my most treasured retreats have included: ceremonies with Shaman’s in the Amazon Jungle, staying at a Ayurvedic Hospital in India and attending a silent stay in Assisi, Italy.  My most recent trip was a fabulous retreat at Lake Coleridge in Canterbury, New Zealand.  

I have been writing since I was teenager.  Looking back at the 'poetry' I wrote, it was very dramatic but it was also very therapeutic.  Writing has always been a form of therapy for me.  It is where I find understanding, clarity, answers and truth.

A psychic introduced me to my husband.  I am not really into that sort of thing but after 20 years together maybe she was right....we married in a drive thru in Las Vegas.

One of my favourite authors is Elizabeth Gilbert (Big Magic not Eat, Pray, Love).  One of my favourite tv programmes is This is Us.  One of my favourite movies is Collateral Beauty.  One of my favourite singers is Ed Sheeran (not really the rapping ones... sorry Ed).

Okay, now we are best friends and you know all the important stuff about me, let's continue.