Life often feels like a game with quarters, moments where we pause, catch our breath, and prepare for what comes next. In sports like AFL and NRL, halftime is more than just a break. It’s a chance to review, adjust, and refocus before the most critical part of the game begins. I find myself at a similar halftime in life—not in crisis, but in a space where reflection and visualisation can shape the next chapter. This post explores how embracing this halftime mindset can help y

Sitting at a crowded Cafe, lots of noise and the bustle of fresh new pilgrams who have started their journey in Sarria. Such a different vibe to the last 15 days of solitude, reflection and physically pushing myself beyond limits I have ever thought possible. The great news is Neale has now joined me and we get to complete the last 130 ish kms together. But first let me cover the huge highlights since receiving my halfway pilgrimage certificate. Rabanal del Camino to O Cebrei

For the last 7 days there has been lots of rain, wind, blisters, infected feet and fingers yes fingers!!!! Andd head cold . I can{t seem to get impulse protein into to me each day to make up for the calories I am expending as I walk. Yet I wouldn’t change a thing. This is all part of this experience.. La Meseta has been an an incredible experience for me to focus on thinking between towns without getting distracted by the landscape. When I am in a town I can be fully present

Tomorrow in Australia it will be Mother’s day. It always been a bitter sweet day for me having lost my mother as baby, a son in my early 20s and raising two beautiful children who are the oxygen in my cells. It’s really just another day for me - I find it difficult to receive the love and care my kids give me on Mother’s day and also am not really into days of celebration of being parent for me that is each day. This year I find myself reflecting on the importance of receiv