Yearly Archives: 2017

Vulnerability is the birthplace of everything we are hungry for. Brene Brown If you searched my Facebook page right now, you would see that I have a lot of people that I call my friends. If you counted the amount of family I have in my local surrounds you would probably […]

The risk of being vulnerable in friendships

25 Jul, 2017 in 2017 July: Risk by Amanda

If you push through that feeling of being scared that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen Melissa Mayer I am afraid of heights. I didn’t use to be, but sometime in my late twenties, it came upon me. I knew what it looked like, as my mother […]

What does risk look like?

22 Jul, 2017 in 2017 July: Risk by Jodie McCarthy

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. Mark Zuckerberg I think the word risk is so attractive. Don’t you? I remember when my now husband took a big leap and […]

On being a baller, shot caller

19 Jul, 2017 in 2017 July: Risk by Riyanka Panditha

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me. Sheryl Sandberg This year, I’m travelling for about eight months and I’m following Plan A–my itinerary. But, travel has a way of bringing up opportunities to switch to Plan B, or even the dreaded Plan X […]

What to do when your travel plans change

17 Jul, 2017 in 2017 July: Risk tagged #adventure / #conversationsthatmatter / #elainefraser / #elainefraserauthor / #planb / #plottwists / #risk / #sayingyes / #sherylsandberg / #travel / kinwomen / women by Elaine Fraser

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. Yesterday I snuck away to the movies. By My Self. It was a glorious “Heavens Open and sing the Gloria” moment with my long black when I realised that I could possibly have the whole cinema to myself. My son was […]

When Wonder Woman Took Off Her Cape

29 Jun, 2017 in 2017: Overwhelmed by Amanda

Fill your minds with things that are true, authentic, gracious, the beautiful – not the untrue, ugly and disturbing. There are absolutely times when I feel overwhelmed, mostly for a short time period of time, but sometimes that feeling has gone on way too long to be comfortable and healthy […]

2 WAYS TO SUPPORT FEELING OVERWHELMED

29 Jun, 2017 in 2017: Overwhelmed tagged #overwhelmed / mindfulness / womenempoweringwomen by Penny