Until recently, I’ve struggled to write 500 words a day. I’ve sat at the computer for about an hour, felt sick to my stomach, stamped my foot and said ‘I don’t wanna’, written a page of painfully careful prose and then gone off to watch Series Three of Borgen.
As I read about the path taken by women in traditional stories, mythology and fairy tales, I was struck by how our own lives follow this pattern.
The curious thing is that most of us don’t realise what true transformation entails.
How telling myself stories, which may or may not be true, has changed me.
My mother used to quote this bible verse to me all the time. She believed my “gifts from God” had to be utilised to their fullest potential. To this day, the idea of being held accountable for my talent still haunts me.
How I feel about the crazy weather we’re having in Sydney.
Right now I have a nauseous feeling in my stomach and I’m on the verge of tears. What’s written on my work, on the words I massaged for hours, making sure each one was the best it could be, is not what I hoped for.
Sexy isn’t about your age, the colour of your hair, the size of your body, the wrinkles on your face. Age isn’t a shameful secret kept undisclosed to ensure others desire you, love you or respect you.
African women on the plains of Tanzania vs. Western women – who has the highest total energy expenditure in a day? (the answer will surprise you)
It was OK to lie about my transgressions and continue in the church, but once I admitted I enjoyed sex and refused to follow the path of repentance and future abstinence I was asked to leave — labelled as a ‘backslider’.
At the beginning of 2011, returning to study twenty years after the last time I went to University, I had no idea what I was doing.
Imagine this – a room full of a couple of hundred people you don’t know and you’re required to ‘network’ with them.
Who you are as a person is important to the world. You are the only person who can do the job of being you. Everything about you is exactly the way it needs to be for you to fulfil your purpose on this earth.
I made you into the person I wanted you to be, without taking into account you might be someone completely different.
