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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi
Archeus Plant Essences & Elixirs
Information about Archeus plant essences and elixirs and my approach to creating them.
Life in Ones and Zeros
As Shane MacGowan dies, Jem Finer’s Longplayer creation brings life down to ones and zeros.
What I am Grateful for after 10 Years since launching Archeus
December 1 marks 10 years to the day since the launch of my business Archeus! In this blog I reflect on why I set Archeus up, some of my influences, give a big thank you to those who have believed in my over this time. I reflect on the awards recognition over the years. and list ten things I have learned from ten years in business.
Compassion is not for the faint-hearted
how can we be truly compassionate if we have not explored our own responses to the very things we wish we could run away from?
Einstein and Buddha in the Garden
I picture Einstein in the garden seeing forms, patterns, these extraordinary mathematical equations of grace, circles of life and death and life again.
I have travelled a long way to be here now
I realised that I liked this midlife journeying. I felt the years have added depth to my everyday experience. The passage of time had made me even more aware of the importance of being present to each moment.
Soul Medicine for the Midlife Woman is here
Go on a soul journey in this transformational nine-week programme created by Archeus founder, Georgina Langdale
Fear of Flying
Who’s afraid of flying? Me!!! In the latest episode of The Soul Garden I describe how I have worked with ceremony to help ease my fear of flying. Given how many of us share this particular phobia, I thought it might be helpful to share how I am coping with mine.
World Earth Day
In this episode of the Soul Garden, I have found myself reflecting on the proximity of Earth Day to ANZAC Day. It made me think of the loss and the fallen.
Nature & the Midlife Woman
This week I share with you some background on why I set up my business Archeus (ten years ago!), some of my thoughts on how I work with Nature to help and support women in midlife and all the changes and transitions it brings from menopause, to changing relationships, caring for ageing parents, and all the grief and joy, living and dying of life.
After the Cyclone - finding resilience in a changing world
It's been a few weeks now since the cyclone Gabrielle devastated the region I live in. This has been a life-changing experience and this episode of The Soul Garden explores how to navigate through events such as this and how we may help create love, resilience and compassion in a changing world.
We are quanta
Quantum physics is that sense of oneness. made into scientific theory. So why is it OK to say one believes in ideas of quantum physics, yet the idea of working with the oneness of energy in Nature as a way of healing, such as the feeling you get in a forest or by the sea has been regarded as somehow woowoo? How did we get so unhitched from the world around us?’
Canary in the coalmine
I can't do the work I do without taking time to talk about how I feel about the world right now. Now, as the headlines tell us that like so many species before us, humanity is on the ‘red list’, we are a species facing its own decline. It’s up to us to be the change we wish for in this world.
Menopause and the childless woman
What does menopause mean for the woman who never bore a child? Is it the pain of the sowing of seeds that never came to be? Is it the sense of a gift given and then thrown away, discarded, unused? Or is it a bird that is finally free to sing her own song?
Upon the Altar - healing for a friend
This week’s episode of The Soul Garden includes a guided meditation for someone going through treatment for cancer.
The power of perimenopause as liminal space
I loved recording this episode of The Soul Garden, because it explores the idea of perimenopause as a liminal space that invites us to draw in the potential of our post-menopausal wisdom years. I recorded this because I want to offer up another view of perimenopause. One that reframes symptoms as markers of transformation.
Two ceremonies to mark the beginning and end of menopause
Two ceremonies to change our relationship with the menopause transition are coming up in early March
Let’s talk about sex and vaginal dryness
A commonly held belief is that once women reach menopause they don’t feel like sex anymore. I believe that the reality can be that in menopause it's not just about hormones lowering libido, it also the anticipated pain of vaginal dryness that puts a dampener on sex.
Cyclone Gabrielle Healing & Prayer Circle event
This FREE online event is for people who wish to gather together in sacred space to pray, grieve and offering healing following the devastation created this week in New Zealand by Cyclone Gabrielle.
Sweet Dreams are made of this
The Gizmo is giving me the data I wanted, But also it is doing more than that. It’s helping address that other pillar of my foundation for this year which is all about the things we tell ourselves. I'm starting to see The Gizmo as not just something that gives me stats, but as a tool to help me deepen and enrich and improve my own self-belief.