Mind Body Spirit Wellness
Everything has changed. Two weeks ago I went into the local palliative care unit for symptom and pain management. This visit had been mutually agreed on the week before when I had seen my palliative care specialist. I was taking a slow release morphine… Continue Reading “everything has changed…”
It is 1AM. I am awake for several reasons – one, because I spent most of the day on the couch napping between hurried trips to the toilet due to the fortnightly attacks of diarrhoea my body is now inflicted with. If that is… Continue Reading “gratitude and humility”
I want to share with you a Near Death Experience that my partner Ian had several weeks before he died. Ian lived with Neuro-Endocrine Pancreatic cancer with Metastases to the liver for over 9 years. When he was diagnosed, he was told there were… Continue Reading “A Near Death Experience”
Life is Beautiful. It is also full of paradox. In accepting death, we learn how to truly live. In accepting our faults and vulnerabilities we become truly strong. In letting go, we gain more. In slowing down, and aligning with the flow of Life,… Continue Reading “Life is beautiful”
I guess you could say that at the age of forty, when life as I knew it feel apart, I experienced a deep existential crisis. Possibly one of the greatest gifts Life could have sent me at the time. It didn’t feel that way… Continue Reading “Know Yourself”