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The Great Unknown – Guest Post by Mark Conner

28 February 2018 Nicole ConnerFamily, Friends & Foe

A guest post by my life partner, Mark – The Great Unknown:   Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of me finishing up 32 years of employment in the one place and stepping out into the great unknown. [See my post from February 2017 called “Time to Say Goodbye” and a poem I wrote in December…Continue reading The Great Unknown – Guest Post by Mark Conner

Grief – Stay With It

5 December 2017 Nicole ConnerHealth, Wellbeing, Spirituality

  Scrolling through Facebook the other day, this post of a friend caught my eye: “We can’t leap over our grief work, Nor can we skip over our despair work. We have to feel it…. Historic cultures saw grief as a time of incubation, transformation, and necessary hibernation. Yet this sacred space is the very…Continue reading Grief – Stay With It

2017: The Year of Discernment

4 January 20174 January 2017 Nicole ConnerHealth, Wellbeing, Spirituality

“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.”  Parker Palmer It is probably…Continue reading 2017: The Year of Discernment

Saying Goodbye Sucks!

24 October 201624 October 2016 Nicole ConnerFamily, Friends & Foe

Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. – Charles M. Schulz It…Continue reading Saying Goodbye Sucks!

Leaving 2015 behind …

28 December 20157 July 2016 Nicole ConnerHealth, Wellbeing, Spirituality

It is hard to believe that another year has come and gone. Maybe it’s because I am getting older, but it certainly feels like time is not just flying under the normal law of aerodynamics, but at the speed of light. I look at my children – wasn’t it just yesterday that they were running…Continue reading Leaving 2015 behind …

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I wish to acknowledge the Wurundjeri-willam people of the Kulin nation who are the Traditional Owners of the Land on which I live. I want to pay my respect to the Elders of the Kulin Nation, both past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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