Tag: trauma
The Chosen Ones.
What does it take to be a chosen one? In the lead up to the US election a genocide unfolds in Palestine. These are my observations of that time, viewed…
Confronting Assumptions
A true story of how a serial killer impacted my family, autism, and making assumptions.
At home with my friend Rejection Dysphoria
When I first heard the term ‘Rejection Dysphoria’ I cried. It explained so much of what I had experienced through out my life. So much of why I had struggled…
Kissing the Virus.
When my brother Ross was in the advanced stage of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), I used to leave Melbourne every month and…
When Life is the lesson
with such a fleeting time on this planet, the appreciation we have for life expands when we allow ourselves to be close to death.
The Theatre of Walking.
As we walk, we are often deeply invested in the theatre of our life, not even aware we are engaging in a type of theatre as we mull over things.
The Double Edged Sword of Speech
When my mother was very young, the doctor told my grandmother that her daughter would never speak, because of the severity of her cleft palate. But my grandmother refused to…
5 traits I never realised are related to ADHD until I was diagnosed, and how I manage them.
The more I accept my ADHD traits and stop pushing and hustling, the more calm and relaxed I feel.
Every holiday is for everyone, no matter what the belief or practice.
Wishing everyone a happy Solstice, Christmas, whatever you celebrate, whoever you are, whatever you believe, it doesn’t matter, wishing you all the joy there is. Because each of us has…
How to foster love in the face of atrocity?
I believe everyone has a path available to them, if they listen and are courageous enough to follow it, which will take them to higher and higher aspects of themselves,…
Be in this world but not of it.
Be in this world but not of it. I don’t know who said that, and I zero interest in looking it up. But we have all heard it right? What…
Trauma, theatre and truth telling; from the political to the personal.
I am currently producing, dramaturg and translating a theatre production called Surat-Suratnya in Melbourne in December. It is a collaboration between Australian and Indonesian artists about true events which remain…
Not Healing, Transmuting
Trigger warning, this blog post refers to violence to children but not in any detail. This is a positive sharing. A couple of months back, I wrote a post on…
Finding my voice.
I am writing this first post on a plane, coming home from a time in Indonesia, where I worked on a theatre project in the ARTJOG festival, Indonesia’s most significant…