This was a huge discussion for the men I interviewed and I am truly grateful for their openness and honesty. Men and Sex Depending on our influences the role of sex in our lives varies. But we are all aware of the stereotypes of the seductive, philandering man who uses sex as a medal of […]
Having watched #SundayNight and the segment about football codes in Australia on Sunday March 17, 2019, the thing that stunned me was the two main women interviewed went out searching for penis. They treated the men like star-meat. They just wanted a piece of fame in their vaginas. They didn’t care about who or what […]
After completing the first draft of Making Sense of the Insensible I attended the Hay House writer’s workshop in Sydney. I discovered that there was a page limit on books and I had 40,000 words too many! When I began my author journey it was to write a book about our cultural influences on gender. […]
Until I read the article in Sunday Style (April 13, 2014) about Charley Drayton, The Divinyls and Chrissy Amphlett’s anthem ‘I touch myself,’ I had never considered the intention behind what was taken as a raunchy song about a taboo topic at that time. While it stands as a great song, sung by an amazing […]
Freud got it wrong! Well, he was right about little girls having envy towards little boys. But it wasn’t their penises that we wanted. It was their personal power. This has been my theory for as long as I can remember because I can remember thinking this when I was about four years old. In […]
I was born in the decade feminism and the Beatles launched a revolution, entering my teens in the late 70’s, I absorbed the cry for change. By the 1980’s I was working with the by-product of family dysfunction, and lent my voice to educating people about the taboo of incest. Today, it’s not even questioned […]
Enough is enough! It’s time for society to learn its lessons and change what doesn’t serve children.
Recently I heard someone innocently sharing the story of Ho’oponopono as told in a book written by Joe Vitale. In December 2016 I wrote an article for the Australian Holistic Healer’s and Counsellors Association newsletter in which I made reference to Joe Vitale’s Forgiveness Process (that is what I am now calling it) about Ho’oponopono. […]