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Taking the Morning Train
Sometimes I forget how much fun it can be to ride a bus or train. The opportunity for uninterrupted people-watching almost outweighs the fact that I loathe the thought of my travel times being dictated...
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ANZAC Day 2013
Cold pre-dawn air. Stamping feet. My breath puffs out in visible clouds of steam. The sun begins to rise. The bugle plays the Last Post. Chills run through my body though I am wrapped tightly. A voice...
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Nourished Life Gratitude List Week Five
I cannot believe how quickly the last week has blown by. I sat down this afternoon to write this gratitude post and tried to reflect on the little moments over the past seven days; I was stunned by...
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Happy Birthday Little One
I clutched tightly to my Aunty Lone’s hand as we crossed the pedestrian walk from the car park to the hospital. The mint green cardigan my grandmother had hand-crocheted for me kept out the late autumn...
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Nourished Mind: On My Shelf Autumn Edition
You would think that someone who wants to be a writer, someone who studies writing, editing, and publishing, and lives in constant threat of a pile of books crashing onto her bed in the middle of the...
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Monday Mantra: Write for Yourself
Writing ~ Flaubert I apologise for my absent Gratitude List, I promise a mega list next Monday. At the moment, dear friends, I am Writing. With a capital ‘W’. I feel the words moving through me and I...
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Writing: The Dragon of Creativity
Over the past six months I have been interning at a not-for-profit writer’s organisation. I have absolutely loved my time there and I am sad that I only have two weeks left with a great team and...
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The Truth about Thoroughly Nourished Beauty
Yesterday I forgot my make-up. I was halfway to work when I realised that I hadn’t put a single thing on my face that morning but some very simple vitamin e cream to soothe my winter-running chapped...
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R U OK Day?
Do you mind if we have some real talk today? Some ‘what’s going in your head today?’ talk. Today, September 12, is R U OK? Day. The R U OK? Foundation was established to help encourage real...
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A Simple Bowl of Millet and Spiced Vegetables, and Thoughts
Welcome friends, can I speak a little about something that has been bothering me? Thank you. Lately, I feel like I haven’t been doing justice to this little space I love so much. I haven’t been tending...
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Nourished Life Gratitude List Week Thirty-One
Earlier mornings and longer nights make me want to stretch out in the sun like a cat and just feel the sun on my belly. It isn’t time for holidays yet but already, in that great Australian way, things...
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Post Two Hundred and Top Ten Posts of All Time
Welcome to my two hundredth post! I can’t believe I have reached this point, and I still feel like Thoroughly Nourished Life has a long way to go. Really, these first two hundred posts have been about...
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Midweek Mantra: Gathering the Minutes
My diary is a tumultuous place. Full of weeks of blank pages that suddenly become months of flurried activity and then settle again into blankness. My relationship with this dichotomy of diary states...
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Twenty-Seven Thoughts for Twenty-Seven Years
Fair warning: this post is long. Read it in chunks. Read only a little. Read the whole lot. Let me know what you think. Yesterday I turned twenty-seven. That’s only three years away from thirty, and a...
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Midweek Mantra: Do it Every Day
When you have a dream, a vision, or a soul-shaking idea of what you want your life to be you are awakened to the gap between your current location and your planned destination. We are bombarded with...
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Nourished Life: Small Great Things
All of my life I have wanted to do great things. I have felt that somehow my life was only worth measuring by impressive feats and grand achievements. I felt that I needed to ‘make something’ of myself...
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Nourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Nineteen
As I write I am sitting in a patch of afternoon sun with the bay breeze blowing through the window. I should be working on my uni dissertation, and this it the plan for the rest of the evening, but...
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Thoroughly Nourished Finds – Inspiration and Escapism
Things in the world are getting really real at the moment, and because I don’t listen to the radio, or watch the news I find out about them on the internet, or through friends (and then end up trawling...
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Time for a Break
My dearest blog readers, This is one of the hardest posts I’ve ever had to write. But after much consideration, I have decided to take a break for a few weeks. Don’t worry – I’ll be back as soon as I...
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My Journey to Intuitive Eating: June – Cookbooks
Today, I’m going to be a bit vulnerable with you all. I’ve started thinking more about the ways and whys of how and what I eat lately, and I thought I’d share some of these thoughts with you. If this...
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