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?

I picture Einstein in the garden seeing forms, patterns, these extraordinary mathematical equations of grace, circles of life and death and life again.

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.

Go on a soul journey in this transformational nine-week programme created by Archeus founder, Georgina Langdale

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?’

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.

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?

This week’s episode of The Soul Garden includes a guided meditation for someone going through treatment for cancer.

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.

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.

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.

The combination of sensing the empowerment of embracing my postmenopausal being, the cold hard objective truths of data and the discovery of tiny sexy lingerie in a box of favorite clothes in the cupboard…. made me really think about who I am now.

The pervasiveness of negative self-talk seemed like the right place to start building the foundation for this year of self-care. I want to identify the things I say to myself and then turn them on their head from negative to positive. Why not try it too and see what happens?

This is written for women in midlife who aren’t gym bunnies or yoga goddesses. This is for women who haven't ticked off another half marathon or swim every day in the ocean. This is written for women who have fallen out of relationship with their physical self under wondering how even if it is possible to reset their relationship with their body.

Ultimately, with this training we bring death and dying back to its natural place in life and living. We see ourselves as part of Nature and supported by Nature, in life and after death. Students have included hospice nurses, therapists, healers, people caring for loved ones at home, funeral directors and people wishing to enter the growing field of end-of-life doulas and death midwifery.

The ancient idea of how the state of our inner world affects the state of the outer world has never been more relevant.