spirituality

Living with Questions I have never been a person who has a creed or written down a set of beliefs that frame my life, but I do have core principles to which I cling dearly. Perhaps this is due to having parents who questioned everything, distrusted the establishment, and who […]

Living with Questions by Elaine Fraser

10 Feb, 2017 in 2017 Belief tagged #amazingrace / #believe / #conversationsthatmatter / #elainefraser / #elainefraserauthor / #robbell / kinwomen / spirituality / women by Elaine Fraser

Some conversations are hard. Some conversations never happen. Some conversations should happen. Some conversations need to happen. Some conversations change you. Some conversations change your course forever. Ten conversations that have mattered and made a difference in my life: 1. The time my boyfriend asked me to marry him and […]

Dare to Have That Conversation

13 Dec, 2016 in 2016 December coversation / Uncategorized tagged #conversationsthatmatter / #elainefraserauthor / conversation / kinwomen / no regrets / spirituality / women by Elaine Fraser

We all have shame. We all have secrets. We all have stories. Sometimes those stories remain secrets our whole lives and shame eats away at us. In the lead up to the release of my book, Amazing Grace I asked some friends to share a ‘confession’. Something secret. I noticed […]

Write a New Chapter

9 Oct, 2016 in Oct 2016: Story tagged #confession / #elainefraserauthor / #newchapters / #regret / #secrets / #shame / #story / #typicallyhazardous / #writeyourlifestory / kinwomen / spirituality / women by Elaine Fraser

This time last year I said yes to curiosity and allowed it to take me where I needed to go. I’ve spent a lot of time interrogating myself, and curiosity has taken me to places in my soul I never expected. Curiosity tends to do that. Alice went down the rabbit […]

I Was a Different Person Then

13 Aug, 2016 in 2016 Curiosity tagged #aliceinwonderland / #curiosity / #elainefraserauthor / #elizabethgilbert / #iwasadifferentpersonthen / #lewiscarroll / #robbell / brenébrown / kinwomen / spirituality / women by Elaine Fraser

We all have choices in life. Sometimes we talk about the fact that if a door opens easily, then that means that it’s meant to be. I’ve come to realise that often the doors that are heavily fortified, or need sacrifice or hard work to go through, are the ones […]

Opportunities Are Seeds

13 Mar, 2016 in march 2016: Opportunity / Uncategorized tagged #choices / #elainefraserauthor / #opportunity / kinwomen / no regrets / spirituality / women by Elaine Fraser

I’ve read so many motivational quotes that tell me it’s not about what happens to us, but our attitude to it that makes a difference. Sometimes these platitudes are like sand kicked in our face at the beach. They don’t breed contentment they breed a desire to slap someone — […]

Cultivating Contentment

10 Dec, 2015 in 2015: contentment / Uncategorized tagged #2016 / #contentment / #CSLewis / #gretchenrubin / #newyear / #shaunaniequist / #thehappinessproject / kinwomen / spirituality by Elaine Fraser