Squeezing it in! week 2 – 2012

January 15, 2012 By minka Leave a Comment
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I have to admit I am feeling a little sorry for myself right now!  I want to write you a big long list of all the things I have achieved in the last 7 days and have to achieve in the next 3 days before I head away to the beach again. I want to have a "Poor Minka" moment!  I want to tell you how no one appreciates me, how my children barely even like me at the moment and how horrible dinner time was tonight when everyone just ended up yelling at each other!  But hey, what would be the point in that!?! It's Sunday after a massive week, and I have spent the entire day in my PJ's!  A day in … [Read more...]

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Happy Health Year! week one 2012

January 8, 2012 By minka 1 Comment
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So, I've left it to the very end of the week to write my first blog post of the New Year. I promised myself (and others) that this year I was going to finally write a regular blog on transforming the lives of myself and my family from the usual busy, time poor, supermarket dependant, chemical and additive soaked lifestyles that we have just "fallen upon" into consciously healthy lives in which we are aware of what is going into our heads, our mouths, on our skin and in our environments.  I'm hoping now you can see why I have left this post until the last day of the first full week in 2012!?!  I … [Read more...]

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My new life in Castlemaine….

February 20, 2011 By Deborah Neale Leave a Comment
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Well it's been a while since I last wrote anything and you have been probably wondering what has been happening!  All I can say is the 1st 3 months of my new life in Castlemaine has been ONE HELL OF A RIDE............... After meeting my husband Sonny in Melbourne and living 5 years together in Kensington where we birthed all of our three children at home.  We went from free flowing couple to parents of 3 and then moving to the country.  No one told me what a Goliath! effort it is to move with children!!!!!  Hats off to my parents who did it several times in my childhood.  Eamon our youngest … [Read more...]

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Introducing Deborah Neale – Australia

January 9, 2011 By admin 3 Comments
the gorgeous Deb!

Deborah Neale is a home mum, a wife, a teacher, a leadership coach and a passionate greenie. She has three children under four with plans for another. Deborah has spent a life-time learning and teaching people about sustainable living, natural parenting, home birthing, and living a created life! She firmly believes that families, and the quality of the relationships within them, are the single biggest factor in causing a sustainable planet for future generations. Mums are the cornerstone of every family - the key person. A mum’s role is to manage all the relationships in the family and ensure … [Read more...]

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Healing birth, healing the earth

May 8, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment
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Birth, she is dying. This primal and unspeakably powerful initiation, the only road to motherhood for our ancestors, has been stripped of her dignity and purpose in our times. Birth has become a dangerous medical disease to be treated with escalating levels, and types, of technological interventions. What is worse perhaps is that the ecstasy of Birth- her capacity to take us outside (ec) our usual state (stasis)- has been forgotten, and we are entering the sacred domain of motherhood post-operatively, even post-traumatically, rather than transformationally. These deviations from … [Read more...]

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