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Remembering the True Nature of Our
Being & Belonging

'Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.'  Rumi

'Nature of Love' is dedicated to support us awakening to our True Nature, to Love, and to re-membering our vital connection, our intrinsic bond, & our inherent belonging within the Natural World as manifestation of that Love.  We seek to contribute to the restoration of our reciprocal relationship with Her, as Her, thereby deepening and enhancing the health of the Whole.

 

My core intention is to create Sanctuary: The devotion to contemplative, slow time for myself, and the stillness of deep listening, as the wellspring from which I create.  And Sanctuary for others, through safely held, deep & creatively soulful journeys, that can help us all come back to Life - both individually and collectively.

Instructions for Living a Life

Pay attention
Be astonished
Tell about it

Mary Oliver

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My Path & My Place

 A few threads of the story...

I have been on a lifelong quest of the soul, that has continually shape-shifted and evolved as Life has danced me through unexpected inner and outer landscapes.

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Concurrently, I find that I am always holding onto the same red thread. Or perhaps it is holding onto me.

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I have been on a pilgrim path of reclaiming my sacred sovereignty and re-orienting myself into the holy wild of my own body and the body of the Earth, for some time now.  I inherited a love affair with Beauty from my beloved Mother, and am a big believer in the deep wisdom of the Mythic, the Poetic and the Naturally Numinous. 

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I have been  spiralling for years, further and further into the centre of who I truly am, and what I am here to offer.  And at this particular place in timeless time, I am stepping into the Name of 'Artist', feeling the way my claiming of this, is also a claiming for the ancestors before me, for whom this path was not so available.

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I am devoting to weaving the crafts of voice and word through poetry, prose and song, and this site is my step towards dedicating to this in a way that I am able to share, and to be seen and heard - those terrifying but healing balms

I am also continuing to hold creative sacred space through "Kairos": Deep-Time experiences of Creative Soul Encounter. In this form of my artistry, I endeavour to curate and hold genuinely safe space to nurture our instinctive impulse towards the integration and wholeness that is both our work to tend to, and a grace that arrives within us. 

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I bring my experience in depth therapies, Transpersonal Psychology, Eco-spirituality, Eco-therapy, and Creative Soul Journey Facilitation to all that I do.

Grounded in my understanding of the profound and visceral impact of individual and collective trauma, and the foundational importance of our early relational stories, I honour the way pain and suffering call us inward and offer us a healing pathway of wisdom, awakening our unique and authentic Life, through a sacred wound that also holds the seeds of our sacred gift.

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Professionally, I hold qualifications as a Clinical Mental Health Social Worker, with further training in Child Centred Play Therapy, and a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology. I hold a Professional Certificate in Ecotherapy, and have trained in the integrative modalities of Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) and Hakomi (a mindfulness-based, somatic psychotherapy).

"What lies behind us, and what lies ahead of us, pales in comparison to what lies inside us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contact Me

Based in Castlemaine & Warburton, Victoria, Australia

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