Myjanne Jensen interviews Jenn Hand—food coach, creator of Healing From Within and founder of www.jennhand.com – a full-service boutique that offers coaching and an online program that enables women to transform their relationship with food, weight, body, and eating. Jenn knows from […]
Karen Tyrrell has experienced the worst of bullying and harassment—during her teaching career in Brisbane schools, the stress of bullying led her to a breakdown. But there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and now she has used her […]
It’s been a long time since I was in the city on a Friday night. Blame it on mothering a teenager, a busy career, and being at an age where hanging out in a pumping bar or packed restaurant after a long […]
Vivianne Kissane is no stranger to pain. After losing her sister-in-law to perinatal mental illness then suffering post natal depression herself, she is acutely aware that many women who experience anxiety during the perinatal period hide their true feelings from family or […]
There are days when ideas don’t flow… everything seems too hard, everything has been done before, and we find ourselves stuck in a rut. Our core businesses—Crave for Crafts and Make It Like Mine—require us to find ways to make crafts happen. […]
Raising a family, getting back into the work force, recreating a career path, relationships, friends and life in general—these are a few of the demands that lead you astray, away from your heart felt passions or from finding new ones. For me […]
As a tribute to mothers everywhere, I thought I would share advice my mum has given me over the years and some of the lovely readers’ contributions as well. So for the sake of this column, let’s call it “advice” not bossing, […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m just a little bit over seeing Kim Kardashian’s naked selfies plastered all over the place and even more tired of the fact that these images are constantly glorified and portrayed as “news”. Now, hear me […]
Running our craft/creative businesses—Crave for Crafts and Make It Like Mine—require us to look after all the usual things every small business owner has to do (accounting, marketing, promotion, sourcing material, finding customers, etc), but we also have to come up with […]
A funny thing happened on my last holiday… but I’m getting ahead of myself. This is how it began, with me crying: “no, I can’t go! I’m terrified even watching lions on the television.” Yet, here I am with my husband and […]
I live in the Queensland but my grandchildren live in Victoria—1657.1 kilometres (17 hour 44 minutes drive) away. For a long time I lived with a constant pull on my heart strings including restless nights and the weight of guilt; I had […]
If there’s one thing that every woman can relate to, it’s the reality that getting your period every month can sometimes be inconvenient, awkward, and just a bit icky. But imagine if you were living on the streets, experiencing extreme poverty and […]
Are you quick to blame others? Are the usual suspects—those close at hand—often the recipients of your frustration? Sometimes accidents are just accidents. Right? That’s what I’ve always believed. If there’s one thing I hate (okay there’s no real ‘if’ there) – […]
With Australian women having babies later in life, they are also returning to work at an older age. And that may mean starting all over at 40-plus in the job-seeking market. “It is daunting,” says Jacqueline Smart Ferguson, who recently facilitated the […]
I have what they politely call ‘spirited’ children. You know the ones: the type checkout operators suddenly open extra lanes for, that you hear coming before they arrive. Children that, while others sip babycinos on their mother’s laps, are hell-bent trying to […]
After nine years working in the suburbs, I’m back in the city for a new job – and goodness, how things have changed while I’ve been away! Peak hour traffic Oh, the joys of peak hour traffic… it has been a shock […]
An unfortunate thing happened before I got married… I had my cards and palm read by a clairvoyant. Let me just say upfront that I’m not in the practice of visiting clairvoyants—sure I’ve been to the occasional one when I was a […]
In my last post I mentioned that inbetween juggling my two little girls, being a wife, writing, managing the household and breathing, I got an hour to myself last week – it was amazing! Q: So what did I do with that […]
I was having coffee with a younger friend of mine recently and she told me that she had changed her surname. I presumed that as she was recently separated that she had reverted to her maiden name… but no she had chosen […]
Young women, you think you have plenty of time… the world is yours, but time flies—take it from this Baby Boomer looking to retire. As discussed in my last post, I found myself in the role of a struggling single parent with […]
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