Life’s a rollercoaster man.
I’m a Brisbane born, Brisbane raised last of 4 kids gal. Wild about blue streaks in my hair & didn’t care if my clothes matched.
I participated in ANYTHING that was happening including standing up to mean boys who tried to ruin my all girls street club. (bruz actually tried to break my foot with a crowbar!) Before my health severely declined I was studying counselling, working as a Dental assistant, and travelling back and forth to a remote mountain in Northern California to spend time with some troubled teens and girls rescued from human trafficking. I worked and worked and saved up money to make the next trip every time I had holidays, because I was in love with the kids (and the staff).
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The world is changed by our actions,
not our opinions .
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When I was 5 my mum spent a very awkward plane ride home from L.A. to Brisbane with me, as I on and off cried about all the homeless people we had seen and given food to on our trip. So early I remember thinking, why can’t we do more? Actually I asked her this many times on the plane ride home.
And so began the evolution of a kid who was wildly attuned to the brokenness in the world around her. You could say that was the start of a small bushfire in my heart that continues to burn to this day.
In the last few years the brokenness of this world has felt far closer to home, showing in the form of disease, an array of trauma, spiritual abuse, complex PTSD, depression and community loss.
It’s been 7 years now, and I’ve prayed a lot of prayers. I’ve had some answered and a lot not. I’ve questioned my faith, value, beliefs and worth. And re-asked those questions 100 more times. I’ve wrestled with social structures that aren’t always supportive for everyone, and found comfort in not accepting everything I hear just because it sounds good.
I don’t pretend to know all the answers or that I might write something today and change my mind entirely tomorrow when you share your better insight with me, but what I do promise is a vulnerable insight, a seat on the journey of a very fierce lady who is not always right but is determined to create a world that doesn’t leave people behind, and leaves a little more honesty, authenticity and love than she did the day before.
My favourite movie quote is
“Look, King Kong. Why don't you take you and your 1980s pick-up lines, climb all the way up to the top of the Empire State Building, beat on your big old monkey chest, and then jump off? Excuse me.” - White Chicks
Flowers
Natives. There are no else.
I met my husband
Through my Mum, who met him at a wedding in Switzerland for a distant, distant relatives cousin? Who then hired him to take corporate photos for the dental practice I worked at, even though he lived in Sydney.
Dreams I don’t tell anyone about
I was playing hide and seek in a maze with angels. I cheated but I won, I don’t know what I won but it felt like I won the lotto and went to heaven at the same time.
Hopes
To be well again, and help as many woman as possible with all sorts of things.
Something surprising
I used to train at Gamebred for MMA fighting. Specifically Muay Thai fighting. As a woman I was tired of not walking wherever the hell I wanted to.