Posted on September 24, 2014
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in Community, Creative Arts, Dance, Embodiment Arts, Sacred Arts, Women's Mental Health, Yoga
When you discover a program for women that weaves the Creative, Embodiment and Sacred Arts, you know there’s been a paradigm shift in how we live and breath wellbeing. Meeting Ee’da Brahim and Kattimôni Kat Beames from Embodied Voice was like Christmas for me. Not only do their souls sing sprightly with an angelic calling, fostering community programs […]
Posted on August 26, 2014
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in Community, Creative Arts, Depression, Embodiment Arts, Mental Illness, Sacred Arts, Suicide, Wellbeing
I was interviewed by Kate Milan from Melbourne’s 3CR 855am Community Radio, about my work as a mental health activist engaging with the community about prominent mental health issues. It was such a relief to speak to someone who shares the same vision for a mental health care system that honours the individual’s right to chose their […]
Posted on April 25, 2014
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in body image, Creative Arts, Depression, Embodiment Arts, Healing Art, Life Modelling, Mental Illness, Self esteem, Wellbeing
*Please note: As of June 2014 I no longer work as a life model or offer private life modelling tuition.* Each time I de-robe to present my body to an artist, I recall why I started life modelling in the first place. I think it’s that first kiss of cool air in places rarely public […]
Posted on June 3, 2013
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in Dance, Embodiment Arts, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Sacred Arts, Self-Harm, Women's Mental Health
Hosting a website about depression and not writing about a woman’s menstrual cycle, would be akin to watching TV with the sound off. Moods and hormones are inextricably linked – that’s common knowledge and women’s business. Since all my adult life has been focussed on optimising my mental health, the phases of my reproductive cycle […]
Posted on May 6, 2013
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in Embodiment Arts, Mental health Care, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Sacred Arts
Little did I know that an afternoon brainstorm, plotting out the campaign of my mental health activist project, would spin The Babyfacedassassin upside-down. A kind of frustrated brooding takes over when I consider how far we’ve strayed from our true nature when it comes to mental health care. I’m fortunate to have a team of […]
Posted on February 18, 2013
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in Creative Arts, Dance, Embodiment Arts, Mental health Care, Psychiatry, Sacred Arts, Self-Harm
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it’s free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that […]
Posted on November 16, 2012
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in Creative Arts, Embodiment Arts, Life Modelling, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Sacred Arts
For the past decade, each year has not gone by without, what I call, a Writing Retreat. Destinations have varied from the jungles of Mexico, WWOOFing farms, psychiatric clinics, the quietude of Canberra at my Godfather’s home, suburban Bungalow summers, undercover journaling on Vipassana, out-welcomed stays with my father, and, just recently, the precious, bushy […]