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I already have several Forester models in my collection, – all of them has the same (almost the same) tools-set, but with little differences.
It’s a popular model, no doubt, so it’s looks logical that Victorinox produced this model with different variations: with and without one-hand opening, with plain and serrated blades. Even once Forester was produced with one-hand and not-serrated blade, it was a definitely unique and rare variation (because of small and episodic run), which is highly valued…
In 2017 Victorinox did a big surprise – Forester with one-hand plain blade was released again, but this time with DualGrip scales.

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NSPCC safeguarding standards and guidance (England)

Last updated: 04 Sep 2018 Topics: Safeguarding and child protection

Safeguarding children, young people and adults aged 0-25 in the voluntary and community sector

This set of recommended standards and accompanying guidance will help non-statutory organisations in England that work with children and young people up to the age of 25, to put clear safeguarding arrangements in place.

They are aimed at voluntary and community organisations, as well as social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations that may not consider themselves to be within the voluntary, community and faith sectors.

The standards help organisations to take responsibility for keeping children, young people and young adults safe; have a practical approach; and comply with legislation and national guidance. They provide useful templates, examples, and links to further information, and are designed to be used alongside our safeguarding tool.

Authors: NSPCC
Published: 2017

Overview of standards

The first 4 standards cover these essential safeguarding areas:

  • safer staff and volunteers

  • child protection and protecting young adults at risk

  • preventing and responding to bullying

  • avoiding accidents and running safe activities and events.

Organisations providing a more specialised service to vulnerable children, young people or adults with care and support needs may also want to consider the last 2 standards:

  • recording and storing information

  • sharing information and working with other agencies.

Please cite as: NSPCC (2017) NSPCC safeguarding standards and guidance for the voluntary and community sector: children, young people and young adults aged 0-25 (England). London: NSPCC.


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Origin: Greek
Meaning: “good man”
Gender: Masculine

The name is composed of the Greek elements, Greek ευ (eu) meaning “good” and ανηρ (aner, genetive) “man.” It was borne in Roman Mythology by an Arcadian hero who is credited for founding the city of Pallatium and also introducing the alphabet, the Greek religion and laws to the Italian peninsula. It was also borne by a 2nd-3rd-century BCE Greek Philosopher and 1st-Century CE Greek Sculptor.

In Scotland, Evander was adopted as the anglicized form of the Gaelic male name, Iomhair (EE-vor), though an English form (Ivor) already existed and neither Evander or Ivor are really related.

A notable contemporary bearer is American boxer, Evander Holyfield (b.1962).

In the United States, the name only made an appearance in the U.S. Top 1000 one time in 1895, coming in as the 872nd most popular male name.

Short forms include: Evan, Van, and Vandy.

Other forms include:

  • Evandre (Catalan)
  • Evànder (Catalan)
  • Evander (Danish/Dutch/German/English/Hungarian/Norwegian/Portuguese/Swedish)
  • Évandre (French)
  • Euandros (Original Greek form)
  • Evandro (Italian/Portuguese/Spanish)
  • Euander (Latin)
  • Evandrus (Latin)
  • Ewander (Polish)

A feminine form is Evandra.

NovaOrigin: Latin
Meaning: “new”
Gender: Feminine

The name comes directly from the Latin word nova (new). As a given-name, it has been used in Scandinavia, Hungary, France, Quebec, and England since at least the 18th-century. It became even more widespread in the 19th-century. Its use as a given-name in Scandinavia may have been kicked off by Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) when he first described the various types of stars known as novas.

Several baby name sites have listed this name as unisex, though possible, I cannot find any historical records indicating this name was ever used on males. Perhaps this confusion stems from its similarity to the male name Noah.

Nova also occurs as a place name of numerous locations throughout the Western World.

In the United States, the name entered the U.S. Top 1000 in 2011 and has risen exponentially since. As of 2016, Nova was the 136th most popular female name, jumping several hundred spots since its inception in 2011 when it was the 886th most popular female name. In the Netherlands and Sweden, it is among the most popular female names, ranking in at #23 (Netherlands, 2017) and #31 (Sweden 2017).

In the UK, Nova was the 400th most popular female name (2016).

Other forms include:

  • Noova (Greenladic)
  • Nowa (Swedish)

IrisOrigin: Greek Ιρις
Meaning: “rainbow”
Gender: Feminine

The name is derived from the Greek “Îris (Ἶρις) Írídos (ίρίδος) “rainbow” and is borne in Greek mythology by the goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the Olympian gods. It later became associated with the body part, the flower, and a colour, all of which were named for the Greek goddess.

In recent years, the name has experienced a surge in popularity in several countries. Its rankings in other countries are as follows:

  • #21 (Iceland 2017, Íris)
  • #25 (Portugal, 2016, Íris)
  • #31 (Sweden, 2017)
  • #32 (France, Paris, 2016)
  • #56 (Catalonia, 2016)
  • #73 (Spain, 2016)
  • #84 (England/Wales, 2016)
  • #85 (Netherlands, 2017)
  • #85 (Slovenia, 2016)
  • #116 (Norway, 2016)
  • #121 (France, entire country, 2016)
  • #186 (United States, 2016)
  • #199 (Scotland, 2016)

Other forms of the name include:

  • Iris Ирис Իրիս (Armenian/Bulgarian/Catalan/Czech/Danish/Dutch/English/Estonian/Finnish/French/German/Greek/Italian/Serbo-Croatian/Norwegian/Polish/Romanian/Slovenian/Spanish/Swedish)
  • Iryda Ірыда (Belarusian/Polish)
  • Irida Ирида (Bulgarian/Croatian/Greek/Italian/Russian/Serbian)
  • Iiku (Finnish)
  • Iiri (Finnish)
  • Iiris (Finnish)
  • Írisz (Hungarian)
  • Íris (Icelandic/Portuguese/Slovak)
  • Iride (Italian)
  • Iridė (Lithuanian)
  • Yryda Ирида (Ukrainian)

LokiOrigin: Old Norse
Meaning: debated
Gender: Masculine

From the name of the trickster god in Norse mythology, Loki was the ultimate pranksters whose pranks always ended up going terribly awry, his biggest blunder being the death of the god Baldur. In Norse legend, Loki’s associations were sometimes neutral to downright evil. Despite this, Loki never had a bad enough connotation to deter Nordic parents, medieval and modern, from using his name on their offspring.

The meaning of the name itself is rather contested. The following possibilities in a nutshell include:

  • from the Old Norse Logi (flame)
  • from an Old Germanic root word *luk, which denotes anything related to knots, locks and anything enclosed/compare to the Old Norse verb loka (to lock; to close; to end”; and the Old Norse verb loki (to loop onthe end).
  • There may be a link with the Old Norse loptr (air).
  • from the Old Norse lok (cover, lid; end)

Loki has made it into the UK’s Top 500 male names, while its modern Scandinavian form of Loke is still a popular choice in Nordic countries.

In 2016, Loki was the 452nd most popular male name in England/Wales, while Loke is the 58th most popular name in Sweden (2017).

Other forms include:

  • Loke (Danish/Norwegian/Swedish)
  • Loki (English/Faroese/Finnish/German/Icelandic/Old Norse)

It should be noted that this was the name of the wife of German Chancelor, Helmut Schmidt, Loki Schmidt (borne Hannelore Schmidt (1919-2010). In this case, Loki seems to have been a childhood nickname that developed from a child’s mispronunciation of Hannelore.

Anneliese, Annelies, Annalise

Anneliese (1)Origin: German
Meaning: combo of Anna + Liese
Gender: Feminine
Eng. (AN-ne-LEES); Germ. (AH-neh-LEE-zeh; AHN-ne-LEES)

The name is a combination of Anne/Anna and Liese (a diminutive form of Elisabeth) and is mainly used in German-speaking countries, but its usage has spread to the Dutch, Scandinavians and English-speakers as well.

In Germany, Anneliese is the title of a popular carnival folk song written by Hans Arno Simon.

Annelies was the full first name of Anne Frank (1929-1945).

Anneliese has appeared in the U.S. Top 1000 only 1 time, in 2005, coming in as the 915th most popular female name. In France, Anneliese appeared in the French top 1000 between 1941 and 1954, peaking at #194 in 1942. In Switzerland, it was the 97th most popular female name in 1937.

In its home country of Germany, Anneliese peaked in popularity in 1918, coming in as the 11th most popular female name.

Its Danish form of Annalise has feared better in the United States, it has appeared in the Top 1000 between 2000-2016 and peaked at #405 in 2016. Annalise has been in out of the British top 500 since 1997. It peaked in popularity in 2001, coming in at #321.

Other forms and languages of use include:

  • Anelisa (Danish/Finnish/Swedish)
  • Annalise (Danish/English/Norwegian/Swedish)
  • Annalis (Danish/Swedish)
  • Annelise (Danish/English/French/German/Norwegian/Swedish)
  • Anne-Lise (Danish/French/Norwegian/Swedish)
  • Anneliese (Dutch/English/French/German)
  • Annelies (Dutch/German)
  • Annelieze (Dutch)
  • Annliss (Faroese/Swedish)
  • Anna-Liisa/Annaliisa (Finnish)
  • Anuliisa (Finnish)
  • Anneliss (German)
  • Annelis (German)
  • Annalîsa (Greenlandic)
  • Annalísa (Icelandic)
  • Annalisa (Italian)
  • Analisa (Spanish/Swedish)
  • Analiza (Spanish/Swedish)
  • Anelise (Spanish-Latin American)

Roan (1)The name can have several different meanings. Its legitimate use comes from the Frisian, Ronne, which is a diminutive form of any name beginning with the Germanic element, hraban (raven). Roan is currently 62nd most popular male name in the Netherlands (2016).

The name has also been used in Scandinavia for centuries, being an offshoot of Jerome.

In the English-speaking world, the name is most likely used in reference to the color and the type of hair color pattern found in animals, especially horses. Its etymology is unknown, but is believed to come from an Anglo-Norman word, which in turn comes from a Spanish word, raudano, which likely comes from a Visigothic word meaning “red.”

In the English-speaking world, there are records of Roan going as far back as the 18th-century in England, but is unclear if this was used in reference to the color or was an early Dutch import.

Roan is also found as the name of several places throughout the world.

It is the name of a mountain in Tennessee, the highest point in the Roan-Unaka mountains, which forms a part of the Southern Appalachians. How the range got its name is unknown.

TajThe name can have two different etymologies, the most obvious, pronounced (TAHZH) is from the Arabic word for crown as in the Taj Mahal. Another source, pronounced (TYE) is from the Scandianavian diminutive form of Tage.

In recent years, its Arabic form became somewhat popular outside the Islamic world in Australia and the United States, among people of various ethnic backgrounds. In Australia, Taj made an appearance in the Top 100 in 2008, coming in as the 89th most popular male name. In the United States, Taj only appeared in the U.S. Top 1000 2 times, in 1976 and again in 1998, peaking at a meager #952 in 1998.

The Scandianvian Taj currently ranks as the 64th most popular male name in Slovenia (2016).

Katia, Katja, Katya

KatiaThe name is a Russian diminutive form of Ekaterina and spun off as a well-established independent given name across Western Europe. In Russian, this is the equivalent of Katie.

In France, Katia appeared among the Top 100 most popular female names between 1968 and 1979. Katia peaked at #42 in 1970. As of 2018, the name has not been in the French Top 1000 since 2004. Likewise, in Italy, it appeared in the Top 200 Most Popular Female Names between 1999 and 2007 and peaked at #141 in 1999. While in the United States, Katia appeared in the Top 1000 between 1996 and 2001 and peaked in 1996 at #772.

In the 1980s, Katja became extremely popular in Northern Europe, especially in Germany and Scandinavian countries.

In English, the name is sometime transliterated as Katya.

Its latinate form of Catia is occassionally used in Italy, Romania, Portuguese-Speaking and Spanish-speaking countries. Cátia and Kátia is used in Brazil.

As an independent given name, it is seldom used in Russia.

Countries/Languages in which Katia is in use: Bulgarian, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.

Countries/Languages in which Katja is in use: Bosnian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish

Adiel (1)Origin: Biblical Hebrew
Meaning: debated; most likely “ornament/jewel of God.”
Gender: Masculine
(AH-dee-el; ENG. AY-dee-el)

This is the name of 3 minor characters in the Bible, one is the name of the father of Maasai, a Cohen (or Jewish priest), the other is the name of the head of the tribe of Simeon, and the 3rd is the father of Azmaveth who was a treasurer under King David. All of the aforementioned appear in the Book of Chronicles.

As for its meaning, it has traditionally been believed to mean “ornament of God; jewel of God,” being composed of the Hebrew (עדה) adi meaning “ornament” or “jewel” and  אל (‘el) pertaining to elohim. However, the  first element may actually relate to the root word  אל (ad) meaning “witness” and also “forever; eternity,” and “booty.” The same root word also relates to “congregation, community, parish, denomination; swarm, flock.” Somehow, the original root word of all of the above are related. Compare the name to the modern Hebrew Unisex name Adi עדי (jewel, ornament).

Among non-Jews, the name has been in use across Europe since the Protestant Reformation, around the 16th-century. It has been in occasional use in Scandinavia, Finland, the Netherlands, U.K, the Americas and Australia. It has come in recent use in Latin America as well.

Ironically the name was not revived among Jews until modern times. There doesn’t seem to be any records for this name among Jews from Medieval Times to pre-WWII in Europe, the Ottoman Empire or the Middle East. It seems to have become widespread after the creation of Israel in 1948. Since the 1960s, its French feminine form of Adielle has appeared in occasional use among Jews in French-speaking countries such as France and Canada.

Another form is the Dutch Adiël (male) and Adiëlle (female).

Modern Hebrew female forms include Adiela (also Spanish) and Adielit.

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This name is one of the ultimate cross-cultural names, it has various meanings and legitimate origins from Europe, to Asia and to the Middle East.

The name has been recorded in use in Northern Europe since Medieval Times, possibly being a contracted form of Adalheidis, its offshoots of Talea and Talina have experienced minor recent resurgence in Germany. Tala also been used in most Scandinavian countries, though today, it is considered very archaic.

Tala appears in a 14th-century Swedish folk ballad Herr Holger (which is the subject of a 1996 song by the Swedish band, Gamarna). The ballad recounts the exploits of a greedy tax official who steals tax money for himself. He is caught by King Christian and beheaded. He is condemned to hell, but is able to return to warn his wife, Fru Tala (Lady Tala). He pleads with Tala to return all the wealth she inherited from him, (which in turn was the result of his stolen money), to its rightful owner or else she will experience a similar fate. Tala refuses, as she would rather condemn herself to hell than give up her wealth.

Its Finnish and Estonian form is Taala and Taali, and a Scandinavian  masculine version is Tale.

Tala is also the name of a Tagalog goddess of the morning and evening star. In one legend, she is the daughter of the sun god Arao and the moon goddess, Buan. Arao and Buan had a large number of star-children, the eldest being Tala. Arao was afraid his heat would burn up his star-children, so he and Buan decided to destroy them, but Buan reneged on her promise and hid her children behind clouds. Arao got wind of Buan’s secret and, according to legend, continues to try and destroy her, which explains the phenomenon of eclipses. Each morning, Buan runs to hide her children behind the clouds, her eldest Tala being the lookout before dawn, being the personification of the morning star.

In another Tagalog legend, Tala is the daughter of the god Bathala. She is the sister of Hanan (the goddess of the morning) and Mayari, another moon goddess.

In Tagalog, tala means “star; planet; celestial body.”

Tala was recently a hit song by Filipina singer, Sarah Geronimo (2016).

In Indian classical music, Tala is the term used to describe musical meter and rhythm. It literally means “clapping; tapping.”

Tala can also be Arabic تالة (Tala) meaning “Turmeric tree; turmeric spice” or a “small potted palm.”

In Amazigh, one of the languages of the Berber people, Tala means “source; spring or fountain.”

Tala is also Farsi and means “gold.”

In Italy and Romania, Tala is used as a diminutive form of Natalia, a la Romanian actress, Tala Birell (1907-1958).

Tala is the name of a type of decidous tree native to tropical and subtropical South America. Its scientific name is celtis tala.

Other meanings include:

  • It is the Azeri word for “glade.”
  • tālā is the Samoan currency and is believed to be a phonetic corruption of the English word dollar.
  • In Polish, it is a feminine form of the Greek, Thales, though it is seldom used, it does appear on the nameday calendar.
  • In Pashtun, Təla/Tala means “weighing scale” and is the name of the seventh month of the Afghan Calendar, its meaning referring to the Zodiac sign of Libra.
  • It is the name of a minor Chadic language in Nigeria.

What the name is not:

Many baby name sources have dubiously listed this name as meaning “wolf” in “Native American,” (which is not a language by the way), while other sources have listed this as being Cherokee or Iroquois for “wolf hunter,” but there are no legitimate Cherokee or Iroquois sources collaborating this information. In fact, Native Languages of the Americas has written a fabulous list pertaining to faux Native American baby names and Tala made the list.

As a closing to this post, I recommend this blog post written by a mother explaining the reason why she chose this name for her daughter. It is from 2006, but still a wonderful read D-Log: The Many Meanings of Tala.


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The Great Big 2017 Workbook Giveaway To Non-Profit Organisations!

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Are you a social worker or a part of a non profit organisation?

Does your organisation work with underprivileged or disadvantaged women?

Or do you know someone who is?

We’d love to donate the 2017 Create Your Shining Year workbooks and planners to you for using with your clients – as many as you’d like!

We can supply both Life and Business editions and the companion 2017 goals diary-planner – whatever you feel would work for your clients!

Every single year since the beginning of the workbooks, we have been donating them to non profit organisations. I’ve also run a meditation + goal setting retreat at a local safe house which was such a beautiful experience. Sharing the workbooks is my way of being able to visit even more places, helping raise spirits and creating change in the world.

To Apply:

To apply for free workbooks for your clients, just fill out the form here + my lovely support fairies will be in contact in the next few days.

Those donated workbooks ended up being used by over 165,500 (!!!!) souls around the planet who needed them, from organisations that included:

  • schools using them for teenage girls
  • women’s shelters in the United States
  • Indigenous Australian women’s services in Sydney, Australia
  • disadvantaged women advocacy services in Cambodia
  • animal sanctuary in the United Kingdom (used by their board to business plan their charity! Hooray!)
  • aged and elderly services in New York
  • cancer survivors in England
  • women’s charities in Zimbabwe.

The feedback from the organisations has been really, really wonderful.

Organisations got a lot out of it, their clients got a lot out of it. Clients felt much more inspired, motivated and empowered after using them, and often requested more workshops to have accountability about following through on their goals over the year.

I got this heart-warming email from one of the case workers who used it:

“A few months ago I applied to use the Create Your Shining Year workbook in a community agency. I would like to share with you how the non profit organisation has used the workbook to support women clients.

As you might know already Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia had its biggest flood in history. There is a whole suburb that went under here and many other places were badly affected. Homes and business were so badly flooded that they won’t be rebuilt again. Many people have struggled after this natural disaster. After reading the offer for the use of the workbook I had a great idea to support women who had been affected by the floods by using this workbook. I went and developed a full day workshop based around the workbook.

As we are non profit organisation and are always needing funding to continue our work I put a proposal together and put it forward to 2 community groups that I thought might help. Zonta and Rotary inner wheel very generously donated money so we could print the book out for participants and funded lunch for the workshop. The workshop was free for all women who attended.

We set out to run 2 workshops, which ended up filling very quickly so we had to put on another one. 40 women in total have attended over 3 workshops and have worked through the workbooks. These workshops provided a space where these women could come together to share of their experiences of the floods and begin to imagine a brighter future for themselves and their families.

The women were all deeply grateful for the workbook and for your generosity to allow us to use them. The workbook was the perfect platform to help these women move from feeling helpless and overwhelmed to feeling empowered.

The feedback from the workshops has been very positive and we would like to continue our work throughout the year to support women who have been affected by the floods.”

This year we want to help even MORE.

That kind of feedback is exactly why we offer this program – to make the workbooks available to ANY woman to help them create goals for their families, lives and businesses, and inspire them to reach them.

I’m aiming to get these in the hands of AT LEAST 100 000 women who need them this year.

Some essential admin notes:

  • You can choose to receive the workbooks as PRINTED BOOKS (if you can cover shipping costs) or DIGITAL E-BOOKS (zero cost to you).
    We do need non-profits to pay for the shipping of the printed books. We have distribution houses in Australia, USA and UK and will get you the cheapest quote possible. We’ll let you know the pricing, and you can choose to decide from there. Unfortunately we’re not able to offer shipping costs as part of this donation.
    There is no cost at all for digital e-books. We’ll provide you with PDFs and a licence to print as many as you need. PDFs can be printed out or filled out electronically. You’ll also receive a short guide with instructions/suggestions on how to use the workbooks with clients.
  • You can order them for as many clients as you like – the more the merrier!
  • I specify this is for women because the workbook’s content is aimed at women. They can (and have) been used for men, but the language and imagery is definitely orientated towards women.
  • YES – if you’ve received them in past years, we’d be delighted to continue donating to you!
  • This offer is ONLY for registered non profit organisations. This is not a workbook giveaway free for all. This is not for individuals. This is not for practitioners to giveaway to paying clients. This is only for registered non profit organisations. Please don’t apply unless you are one. Please do not waste my team’s time who could be helping real non profits. If you aren’t sure if you are one or not… you aren’t, so please don’t apply. (I’m sorry if this sounds snarky, but holy dooley we’ve seen some doozy requests over the years!)

To apply for free workbooks for your clients, complete the application here + we will be in contact with you shortly!

I’m SO delighted to work with even more organisations this year to help even more women grow, evolve, dream, hope, transform + make their own miracles happen.

Together, we’ll change the world. I totally believe and know that with my whole heart.

Thank you so much for all the work you do.

big ole love,

P.S. If you know of anyone (social workers or organisations) this could help, I would SO SO SO appreciate it if you could share it along!!!! Thank you so much for helping the world!

3 Reasons Why Your Dreams Aren’t Coming True

Not sure what happened here, really.

It was hot, and there was a fire burning in me.

I told my husband I was headed to the studio for some kid-free creation time.

Locked the door, turned the live stream on, pulled the whiteboard round.

And out came this… all of this…

my unfiltered thoughts on success, failure, what works + what doesn’t.

The most important practices I’ve learned in building a multi-million dollar business.

This video?

It’s lo-fi and bra-free and curse-aplenty.

After years of feeling a bit creatively blocked about making videos… I just did it my way.

And it felt GOOD.

Hope you find it useful.

Big love,

P.S. As I share in the video – if you haven’t ordered your 2017 workbooks yet, I honestly don’t get it.

They are wildly affordable… AND I just slashed prices to half-off to clear our extra stock.

They are a proven force for good – they’ve now been used by over 300,000 (!!!!) people worldwide who’ve gotten HUGE results from using them. They make a massive, beautiful, sacred, abundant difference to people’s lives and businesses.

Why on earth would you say no to that for yourself?

Click here to order yours now!

FREE EBOOK: How To Start + Run A Workbook Group!

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Hola gorgeous ones,

Goal setting + accomplishing your biggest hopes and dreams isn’t always an easy feat. Life gets in the way. You get sick, work gets hectic, unexpected expenses come up.

It’s just SO easy to put those goals on the back burner and well, give up. Been there, done that.

We all need + deserve support.

Sometimes we don’t get that support from the places we expect it the most and some of the most common + active posts in the 2017 Create Your Shining Year Workbookers group are those looking for meet-ups, masterminds and other like minded peeps in their area (or online!) for accountability + other support.

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So I decided to create a fabulous, free guide to help you create your own workbook group!

It’s a free guide for all our Academy members + workbook users!

Why Create A Workbook Group?

I look back at my own career + journey and know that it is only through being a part of dedicated groups like these are how I have achieved the amount of joy, abundance + success that I have.

Masterminds using principles like those found in the workbooks have been used for centuries by some of the world’s leading minds and entrepreneurs (including Albert Einstein, Richard Branson + Andrew Carnegie) to supercharge goals.

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Creating a face-to-face workbook group means you :

  • manifest your dreams faster
  • get accountability, accountability, accountability!
  • brainstorming + masterminding
  • stay on track
  • it’s totes FUN!

There are many blessings and lessons that come with leading a group.

It will supercharge your growth + really help you learn how to be sovereign, maintain boundaries + guide energy in the right direction and I honour you for the brilliant, brave leap are looking to undertake. I love a woman who takes the reins + does what it takes!

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In this Guide to Starting + Running A Workbook Group you’ll learn:

  • why it’s incredibly useful to have a local workbook group
  • where you should run them
  • how to find people for your workbook group
  • if you can charge for workbook groups
  • how to run them so they are effective + powerful for everyone.
  • and more!

Download the guide now!

These workbooks are magical.

They bring people together and bring a massive amount of joy, abundance + success.  Many miracles have been made from using them.

Download your How To Start & Run A Workbook Group Guide now!

How excitlement!

Lots of love,

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Leonie’s Favourite Things From 2016!

Hi lovelies,

I wanted to share with you the things I’m really, really, reallllllly glad I invested in last year.

I’m not someone who is particularly motivated by STUFF… I don’t want to buy useless shit that doesn’t add to my life, ya know? I’m not by any means a minimalist or perfect though… I can defo get caught up in consumerist shit if I’m not tending to my soul needs… try to fill that empty hole where Great Spirit belongs with STUFF.

I share this post not to encourage you to buy MORE STUFF… but just to share what I’m really glad I invested in this year. I might be a self-made millionaire, but I’m still pretty stingy when it comes to what I buy. And I love sharing about what actually works.

So yeah! Stuff! That was useful and good and a beautiful buying decision for me:

Being introduced to therapeutic essential oils was honestly one of the best parts of 2016 for me. I’ve always bought cheapo smelly oils wherever I’ve gone… but didn’t know how to use them beyond just chucking them in an oil burner and then turning it off because they gave me a headache.

I was sick a LOT in 2016 with recurrent throat infections + illnesses, and a mate finally pulled me up and said:

Mate, I used to have shit immunity, I now use essential oils therapeutically and it’s changed my life. Let me teach you how pleaaaaase!

And she did and I was TOTALLY SURE it wouldn’t work for me… I thought it was yet another fucking hippy healing placebo. I mean – I’m a hippy and I LOVE hippy stuff… but the efficacy of so much stuff can leave a lotttt to be desired.

Anyways, I ordered a couple… and instantly fell in love… went back and bought a whole kit… and now have a walking essential oil apothecary in my purse at all times, and in my bedroom, and in the kitchen. For EVERYTHING! ERMAGERD!

I use them every single day now on me, our girls + my hunky love… for immunity, mood management, tantrums, insect bites, sore backs, infections, colds, stubbed toes… anything that happens you’ll see me running towards it shrieking “LET MAMA HELP! I HAVE AN OIL FOR THAT!” Bahahahahaha!

I’m also THAT person who is oiling up her friends and extended family every chance I get…

I can’t even talk about how much it’s changed me + my family’s lives without sounding like I’ve joined a fucking cult.

I really have. I’m a card carrying member of the essential oil cult.

I could wax on about my new obsession for dayyyyzzzzzzzzzzz…

if you’re interested in learning more… I started a Facebook Essential Oils group with friends just so we could talk oily shit with each other… which then rapidly exploded to 600 people… SO MUCH FUN!

You’re most welcome to join us if you want! #oilcult #sooooooointoit #totallyindoctrinated #fingersniffer

I heard a little about weighted blankets earlier this year and how useful they were for people with high sensitivies, sensory processing disorder, autism, Asperger’s, restless legs (and a whole bunch more as well!)

I tend to fall in a couple of those categories I reckon! I’ve shared more about identifying with a lot of Aspie symptoms here. When I’ve been through a particularly stimulating experience (i.e. have been to a really busy place, or ran a live workshop, or done something social), my body feels like it is thrumming and ungrounded. I can feel the adrenaline running through me. When I lay down in bed, I often feel like I’m almost levitating, that I need something more to hold me to the ground. When I’m particularly anxious, I’ll even ask Chris to lay down on top of me for some comforting pressure. (HA! THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!)

Intuitively I felt like a weighted blanket would be the right fit for me.

A weighted blanket, by the way, is exactly what it sounds like:

A specially made blanket that has extra weight in the filling, making it much, much heavier than traditional blankets.

I ordered mine from Calming Moments in Australia – a small family company that handmakes them.

I ordered a single bed-sized blanket in blue cotton material that had 9kg of weight in it (it’s a heavy bugger to lug around!)

As soon as it arrived, I lay down on the floor of my office with it on, and my body instantly R E L A X E D. It’s a reallllllly soothing feeling for me. All the tension runs out of my body, I start breathing deeper. It’s the most comforting cocoon EVER.

It lives on our couch now, and I make all my friends who come over try it out. Their instant reaction is “Oh holy SHIT! This is AMAZING!” and then they melt into a relaxed puddle and lay there in a blissed out state of comatose. I’ve even had the same reaction from burly men!

I lay under it every single night on the couch while we watch TV (or more accurately: Chris watches TV, and I draw, collage, felt, or text with friends). If I’m feeling antsy during the day, I’ll get it out for soothing. Any anxiety I’m feeling is quickly soothed away.

I’m sure my anxiety levels are down this year since I started using it daily.

Now – here’s the thing – I did however find that the 9kg is too heavy for me to sleep under. It’s really relaxing… but I felt a bit claustrophobic and pinned down. I did check, and I had measured the right weight for me – I’m not sure if it is because of my hypermobility or whatever. The 9kg is brilliant for the ultimate in chillaxing, and after a few months, I decided I really wanted to get another less-heavy blanket that I could comfortably sleep under.

I ordered another single bed-sized cotton blanket – this time with 6kg of weight in it. I’m so glad I did – it feels like a good weight for me for sleeping under, and Chris mentions he notices I sleep deeper and am a lot less restless at night when I sleep under it. I feel like I get to sleep faster and sleep more soundly under it.

Still, my 9kg is the ultimate for me in chillaxing… if I had to choose between them and only have one, I would probably just have the 9kg and just use it on the couch. It’s such a sedative for the times when my body gets overstimulated.

I did also order a 2kg lap blanket – for me, I don’t notice much of that noticeable sedative effect with that one, and now my kids use it instead. They love the weighted blankets as well!

For me, the weighted blankets are such an important part of my self-care tools these days… I actually feel a bit of anxiety at the thought of being without them – like if I’m travelling.

I’ve got a trip for a conference happening in a few months, and I know it’s going to be a stimulating time, so I’ve already allocated half my suitcase to be filled with the 6kg weighted blanket, my own pillow, my essential oil diffuser + a big array of essential oils. MWAHAHAHA! I HAVE PRIORITIES PEOPLE!!!!

After spending so much of my year being sick, by August, I knew I needed to make a change. My dear mentor Hiro Boga was encouraging me to up my self care and tend to my crappy health. She invited me to go to Germany with her to spend time at an amazing health retreat there. I didn’t feel up to being away from my family for so long or travelling internationally… but the idea struck a seed inside my spirit that quickly took root. What if… instead of going across the world… I just go to a retreat just down the road?

I googled away, and found a great place just a couple of hours drive from here, and in October, I spend a deliriously happy 5 days there.

I wrote about my experience of that here.

It was an investment – it cost me over $2000 to do it – I’m pretty stingy and that felt like a LOT to spend on myself. But I knew I had to put myself first, and put my health first. And I am so glad it did.

It really infused my year with that much more support, and soul cushioning. It was that week of the year where I left it all behind, and just took care of me. Big insights and revelations followed.

It’s something I want to do every single year now. Take one week out of the year to disconnect and take complete care of me. We as women and as mothers forget that that’s important. We forget what that looks like and feels like. I saw it, and I felt it, and holy SHIT does it feel GOOOOOOOOOD.

Lastly, this one isn’t for me. But it still brings me so much joy, and I’m so glad I bought it for my darling husband.

I get so much joy of buying gifts for other people. I can’t stop grinning when other people receive something I’ve given them. Especially my husband – that gentle river stone soul who brings so much goodness into my life. Also: have I mentioned he’s hot?

It was our 15 year anniversary this year, which I felt was pretty momentous. I feel so proud of us for being such determined motherfuckers to grow old together, come hell or high water. I feel so proud of us for doing the big work – inner and outer – for us to grow a life of love, peace, gentleness, communication and understanding together. It was definitely not something either of us were taught in our childhoods, and we really had to work out how the fuck to make that happen for ourselves.

So I really wanted to celebrate the shit out of love, and of him, and of us this year. So I told him I would give him $100 for every year he’s loved me, and he could spend it all at the music store. That made his eyes light up of course. He’s a musician, and a guitarist. We ended up spending a bit more than his $100 yearly allowance for our 15 years together (at my enthusiastic encouragement), but it is SO WORTH IT for my husband to have his dream guitar.

(I had no idea what I wanted for our anniversary that was in May – so I just said I’d park his gift to me until I knew. Neither of us like buying shit just because of an anniversary… we always rather wait until there’s something we actually we want. Once the health retreat came up, I knew I’d found it… so our anniversary presents this year were bloody bonza!)

All up…

2016 might have been a hard, challenging year in many ways… but I feel SO grateful for the investments which made such a difference for me to get me through… nourishing my body, mind and soul… and celebrating love and creativity!

Big love,

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Important Changes To My Company In 2017

Happy New Year. Happy Completion of 2016. Happy New Beginning. Happy New Dawn.

It’s time for me to make some shifts to how I run my business.

Boundaries time:

  • I will share exactly what those changes are in this post in great detail.
  • I will share deeply about the reasons behind those changes.
  • I will try to answer as many questions as I think you might have.
  • Please take the time to read this post carefully and thoroughly.
  • If you email us asking about how you will be affected instead of reading this post, we will just send you the link to read this.
  • If you are angry or have complaints or believe I’m a greedy or selfish person for making these changes, you are most welcome to think that. You don’t need to email me to tell me that – I don’t need to know, and I’m frankly not interested. If you aren’t interested in continuing working with me, my Academy or my workbooks because of these new changes, that’s absolutely fine. All you need to do is unsubscribe, not purchase, or not renew your membership. I understand that I am changing the boundaries and ecology of my business environment. It’s up to you to decide if it still resonates and is helpful to you.

So, take some deep, calming breaths. Have a cup of tea. And have a read.

The important changes are this:

  • In 2017, I will be increasing Academy price to $997.
  • I will no longer be offering part payment options.
  • I will no longer be offering “Life Only” access to the Academy.
  • I will no longer be providing printed books to Academy members.
  • I am no longer working towards offering Academy in currencies outside of US dollars.
  • I will be closing Academy Plus option.
  • You can expect to see changes to the workbooks for the 2018 collection.
  • I will closing my Affiliate program.
  • I am opening a third leg of my business. Which seems bonkers, but is actually a wonderful fit for me.

More details:

Price Increase To $997

I will be giving people a month to sign up for the Academy at the current rate of $497 before I double the price. I’ll open up for enrolments at the current price ($497) in Feb or March, and double the rates after that. So you’ll have plenty of time to enrol if you’re called.

If you’ve signed up to the Academy at an early bird price ($99, $197 or $497) you will be able to keep that price for the life of your membership. If you don’t renew and wish to enrol again in the future, you will have to sign up at the new price of $997 a year.

No Payment Plans

I will not be offering payment plans when I do open enrolments. People who want to join will need to be able to invest the full amount of the membership price they signed up at.

For members currently on payment plans (whether that’s 4 months or 12 months), you will need to renew your membership at full price.

To make it easy for you:

Part Paymenters Who Need To Renew At $99 A Year

  • $13.95 a month over 12 months
  • $39.50 a month over 3 months

Part Paymenters Who Need To Renew At $197 A Year

  • $55 a month over 4 months

Part Paymenters Who Need To Renew At $497 A Year

  • $140 a month over 4 months
  • $49.95 a month over 12 months.

If you don’t renew and wish to enrol again in the future, you will have to sign up at the new price of $997 a year.

Books no longer part of Academy membership

I offered the full 2017 printed package of books delivered around the world as a new bonus for Academy members last year.

It was an experiment, and though I loved being able to do that, it is not something I’m able to do continuing forward because of the upcoming changes to how I publish these.

The core focus of the Academy has always been about the value of the courses – I think we are over 117 courses now, plus more added monthly. Those Academy courses are my life’s work, and I’ve always overdelivered with how much content I give to my members. If you don’t believe in the value of that, the Academy is not the right place for you.

I am no longer working towards offering Academy memberships in currencies outside of US dollars.

I have spent over a year and tens of thousands of dollars trying to make this a reality. It’s currently a technical impossibility with different payment processors. I’m sorry – I would have liked to make it happen, but I can’t. Nobody can.

The main currency will continue being US dollars as that is where the majority of our sales are, and it’s more internationally recognised as a currency for other countries than anything else. Less than 25% of our sales are Australian and New Zealand.

I am closing my affiliate program

I will be closing it end of January after the current workbook promotion. I am so grateful for my affiliates, and I’ve loved sharing the abundance and journey with them for so many years.

I sincerely apologise if this isn’t a decision that delights you. I dearly love to delight people.

It’s just time for a shift, and I can’t really explain why… it’s more of a feeling, a gut instinct, an inner knowing.

I need to make shifts so my company feels wonderful and spacious and easy to me again.

I will no longer be offering “Life Only” access to the Academy.

This was an experiment. It doesn’t have enough memberships for me to continue offering it in terms of the additional infrastructure and administration it requires. Current members will continue receiving their resources + new classes for the rest of the membership, but will not be able to renew. You’ll be able to either end your membership, or upgrade to full Life + Biz membership in order to continue. You will be able to get the upgrade at the current price of $497.

You will only have to enrol at the $997 amount if you let your membership lapse.

I will be closing Academy Plus option.

Again, another experiment which adds too much administrative issues and complexity.

I am opening a third leg of my business. Which seems bonkers, but is actually a wonderful fit for me.

I will share more about this soon.

You can expect to see changes to the workbooks for the 2018 collection.

I’ll let you know what they are when I know. I’m exploring all options to see if I will be working with a publishing house, pursuing a different model of distribution, or changing up how many products I offer. I am still very committed to sharing the workbooks with the world.

(You can still buy the 2017 collection in full here.)

My Reasons Why:

The short answer:

I have made huge mistakes when I deviated from my own intention and vision and listened to OPO (Other People’s Opinions). I am bringing everything back in alignment and simplifying it back to its original power and vision.

The much longer answer:

As many of you know, I’ve been suffering from burnout for quite some time. My business has been on a very fast growth trajectory, and it’s been wonderful, stressful, overwhelming and a huge amount of work.

I’m no longer willing to continue sacrificing my physical, emotional or spiritual health, my creativity and my family to continue on down this route.

I’m at a crossroads, and needed to decide to either close down all my existing business structures and do something else, or significantly change and update my business model so it once more fits with me, my spirit and my body, my family and my desire for a life well lived.

I have decided to go this second route – I have adored so deeply this journey, and want to see what can be shaped and created within new boundaries for both the Academy and workbooks.

Academy changes

The Academy started in 2010… I’ve been doing this for over six years now!

Over the past six years, it’s grown increasingly more complicated and hugely more expensive to administer. I am simplifying it back down to its purest form and intention.

I was in a place where I wanted to help as many people as possible, and making it as cheap as possible for it to be as accessible as possible. I’ve fulfilled that particular soul contract to do that until it no longer felt good to my body or spirit. Now I am only willing to help people who are really ready to help themselves.

I’m streamlining the membership levels/options back to being simple so that it both resonates energetically, is less confusing, and cuts down on administrative costs.

Please note: Apart from this, there will be no change to Academy delivery:

  • Courses (both life and business) will stay available to Academy members
  • Courses (both life and business) will continue being created
  • Monthly coaching calls will continue happening.
  • The Shining Academy Conference/Retreat is still happening NEXT MONTH! I am so excited! At this stage I’m not sure if I’ll do one in 2018 or not… so if you want to see me live, best come next month!

Workbook changes

I created the workbooks in the space of 3 days over Christmas 2009 after I wanted to give myself the gift of a goals planner/workbook that was colourful and more feminine, creative & spiritual than anything else out there. It was a way for me to send a love letter to myself in the future – I was pregnant with my first child and knew deep inside that a train was coming for me and there was no way to prevent the collision. I was right – my initiation into motherhood and the two years that followed were some of the most excruciating of my life with post-natal depression, the separation of my parents, the subsequent implosion of my family of origin, and a marriage that survived it all by the skin of its teeth.

My workbooks were my own life raft for me when I was lost as sea, clinging to the vision of what I knew my life was meant to be.

Sharing them with the world in December 2009 was an afterthought. I figured if I was desiring something like that, that maybe other women did too. I thought if maybe 10 other women bought it that would be fun. 100 seemed far stretched but a fun goal to aim for. I launched, and the Twittersphere lit up. There was nothing else like it on the market at the time – there’s about a billion copycat products now – but then it was revolutionary and people were clamouring. Within a month, I’d sold a thousand. Back then, I just sold it as a downloadable PDF – it was easy and relatively simple to pull off. I did everything myself.

I continued sharing them each year, and the sales kept growing. In 2014, I made a Print on Demand version on Amazon through Createspace. It was so awesome to see it “in print” and people loved the physical copy. I did run into some issues with that platform though – most of all, the level of print customisations was very limited. Totally fine for a standard novel or paperback style book, but I wanted to offer spiral bound which made way more sense for the workbooks.

So in 2015 we began to self-publishing by printing books in China using Imago printing and partnering with 3 distribution houses in the UK, US and Aus. The vast majority of self-publishers will only use one, but I wanted to make shipping as fast and cheap as I could for our customers spread out across the globe. Doing this greatly increased our shipping costs, distribution costs and the complexity of the set up. Then I needed to find tech contractors who could build the shopping cart for the products and have it integrate with all 3 distribution houses, our CRM software (Infusionsoft) and our payment software. Then I needed to hire a stack of customer service staff to keep up with the tsunami of emails for customers each day.

For the 2016 collection I made it even more complex by adding three more products to the range. It seems like such a small number, but it added hugely to my workload, as well as design and printing costs, the complexity of our shopping carts and infrastructure.

By the time we reached the 2017 collection, I’d sold nearly 120,000 with another 160,000 being used by charities with their clients. In 2017, I’ve printed 80,000 products, financed it all myself at a cost of $250,000 plus $250,000 in production and staffing costs.

What took me three days in 2009 now takes me more than a year to do the same. While it was still 2016, I’m selling 2017 collection and I’m working on 2018 collection all at once. Organising and managing all the design, printing and distribution myself feels relentless.

Add to that a quickly growing team and a disastrous run of staffing, it’s meant I have spent the vast, vast majority of my time managing logistics and a team. My conversations with my husband (and co-director) of the company stopped being about our dreams and became all about trouble-shooting the latest headache/heartache. I’ve spent all my time putting out fire after fire, managing staffing dramas and being the CEO of a multi-million dollar company with two 7 figure brands.

So much so that I’ve had remarkably little time to do what I actually love – which is to create.

I was not born to be a manager or a CEO. I was born to create, share and live a good life.

I’ve had so many years in this business when I’ve woken up barely being able to believe my luck that I got to do this as a job and earn a shit tonne of money as I did it. Increasingly over the last couple of years, I’ve stopped feeling that way. I can’t tell you how many times I wrote in my journal “I am so DONE! I don’t want to do this anymore! I can’t keep doing this… it is hurting my heart and my spirit and my body and my family.”

I couldn’t take time off anymore. I felt constantly on edge. My health has suffered – badly. My immune system is broken from hyperemesis gravidarum nearly three years ago and still doesn’t seem to be recovering. I feel in an endless cycle of burnout. I started working more time to try and fix everything. I stopped feeling like I loved the shit out of my life. My kids noticed. Starry has heard our conversations and tells me she will come to work with me because she knows I need help and that I’ve had staffing problems (she’s heard me talk to her daddy bear about them) and that I’m so busy I can’t play anymore.

Meanwhile my children’s legs lengthen and they graduate from kindergarten and their faces change and I’m not being the mama I want to be, the mama I have been, the mama I want to be again.

It’s just not fun anymore.

And that may seem contrite – that sometimes things AREN’T fun… but for me, fun is my guiding light. It’s my natural state of being. I know I’m in the right place, at home in my soul, doing the right thing when I’m having FUN.

I’ve never been money orientated. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t have a shit attitude towards money. I love its guts! I think it can be a source for doing wonderful things in the world!

It’s just not my guiding light above all others. I started out with building a business because I loved my art and writing and womens circles so much I wanted to share them with the world. I began growing it to make it my sole income when pregnant with my first child so that me and my husband could quit our jobs, live anywhere we wanted to and spend our time as a family.

Those two things – my creativity and my family – they are my North Star. They are my Big Why.

So I’m in this place now where I need to make changes, in order to put things right in my world. In order for it all to be in right alignment again.

I keep thinking about this quote:

“Growth for the sake of growth is cancer.”

I’m not interested in more business growth. I’m not interested in doubling my business again and hitting the next income goal. Frankly, I’ve got more than enough of it. What I need now is my life and my health and my art.

I’m not making this decision driven by dollars. I tried that mode of being the last few years, and as I knew it wouldn’t all along, it didn’t bring me joy. It was just more running on the hamster wheel, more hustling for worthiness through an abstract goal. I tried out being a CEO and a people-manager. My ambitious achiever self wanted to experience what it was all like to get bigger and bigger and bigger. It felt hollow. It felt not enough. It felt like I was barking up the wrong tree.

So I’m here.

My business has grown by leaps and bounds in all directions.

It’s time to realign it all back for it to serve its greatest goals… to be a vehicle to share my gifts with the world, and to support me and my family.

I talk to the angel of my business.

She tells me:

Leonie, you were never meant to suffer for your business.

And I sob.

I know she is right.

I tried to be all things to everyone. I tried out being that big flash CEO with a big team. I tried being a superhero and doing everything. I tried being as ultra-generous as I could. I tried.

And I’m all beat up and burnt out and bruised.

And I’m not doing that anymore.

It’s time.

I’m simplifying everything back down. Outsourcing. Clarifying. Aligning everything back to my intention.

Making it what it needs to be to support me, my family and my health.

Dreaming it into a new dream.

I understand…

I understand this may not resonate with you.

I understand you may not understand my decisions.

It’s okay, dearest, you don’t have to.

I understand if you don’t feel you fit in the new ecology in my business anymore.

It’s okay, dearest, you don’t have to. Do what is right and good for you.

I’m like the Madonna of Business Reinvention…

This isn’t the first change I’ve made in my business.

As I’ve grown as a soul, a woman, a mother and a business owner, so too do I need to update my business and offerings to fit me again. I’ve written about it before here. And here. And here. And here.

I’ve reinvented again and again and again.

And yet… so many things are constants. I’ve been blogging continuously since 2004. I’ve been producing and sharing the workbooks since 2009. I’ve been running the Academy since 2010. These are lifetimes in online business years!

I’m a writer, artist, teacher, helper, lover of people.

And that’s what I will always be, and always do.

Some things change, but most things stay the same.

Again, boundaries:

  • I’ve shared exactly what these changes are in this post in great detail.
  • I’ve shared deeply about the reasons behind those changes.
  • I’ve answered as many questions as I can.
  • Please take the time to re-read this post carefully and thoroughly if you need further clarity.
  • If you email us asking about how you will be affected instead of reading this post, we will send you the link to read this.
  • If you are angry or have complaints or believe I’m a greedy or selfish person for making these changes, you are most welcome to think that. You don’t need to email me to tell me that – I don’t need to know, and I’m frankly not interested. If you aren’t interested in continuing working with me, my Academy or my books because of these new changes, that’s absolutely fine. All you need to do is unsubscribe, not purchase, or not renew your membership.

There’s only one person in the world I’ve ever needed to please, ever needed to understand.

She’s standing right before me in the mirror.

She says:

This is what I need. This is what I can do. This is what I can’t do anymore.

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The most important part of our over-all well-being is mental health. Even the World Health organization states that "there is no health without mental health." Good mental health is our source of our ability to reach our full potential, and to be able to do so, we have to know how to cope well with the ups and downs of life. There are factors that can impact our emotional well-being, which in turn can affect the mental health of an individual, such as: genetics, prolonged stress, physical illness, and traumatic events, and environmental issues, like economic, political and social climate. Here's a good read about  depression counselling Calgary, check it out!

Mental health issues can range from the daily worries to serious long-term problems, which require treatment, but if they are not properly addressed can affect how we think, feel and behave. There are two main types of mental health problems: neurotic or psychotic symptoms. Neurotic symptoms are basically normal emotions which an individual is likely to experience, such as stress, sadness and anxiety. If these emotions, however, start affecting one's daily life, it may be a sign of a mental health problem. Mental health issues that are characterized as neurotic symptoms are: depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, and panic disorders. On the other hand, psychotic symptoms are less common and interfere with a person's perception of reality and may include hallucinations. People associated with this type of mental illness have unrealistic views about themselves, with other people and the world around them. These psychotic symptoms include: schizophrenia, eating disorders, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, and personality disorder. To gather more awesome ideas on  Relationship Counselling Calgary, click here to get started.

Mental health counseling is basically assisting individuals, families, and groups with diverse needs go through challenges in their life journeys, prepare and understand these challenges by a professional counselor. The need for professional counselors is important because they are knowledgeable in the principles of human development and psychology, mental health and change theories, as well as they are trained to effectively establish helping relationships with people of diverse cultures. Aside from these qualities, professional counselors are skilled in assessing people affected by their present situations, and in doing so, they know how to diagnose and treat mental disorders, and how to apply cognitive, affective, behavioral and systemic methods to facilitate change in their patients. Professional counselors also provide their patients with a safe place for them to share their experiences comfortably, most especially if these patients are undergoing a range of mental difficulties, such as trauma, depression, anxiety, stress, unanticipated life events, interpersonal discord, social injustice, work-site disruption and career issues.


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Brenda Zlamany: 100/100 Portraits from the Hebrew Home at Riverdale

On view Sept. 4 - Dec. 16, The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery is honored to present Brenda Zlamany: 100/100, an exhibit of 100 watercolor portraits of residents of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale. The portraits were created during the artist’s summer residency there in 2017.

On view through December 16, 100/100 is the most recent chapter in Zlamany’s ongoing project “The Itinerant Portraitist,” in which she explores the constructive effects of portraiture in communities around the globe. The exhibit honors overlooked members of society, involving them in an artistic process that upholds their value while making visible the beauty and wisdom that come with age. Previous chapters involved Aboriginal people in Taiwan, girls in an orphanage in the United Arab Emirates, artists in Brooklyn, and taxicab drivers in Cuba. Zlamany is a painter who lives in Brooklyn. Since 1982 her work has appeared in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in painting, and a Jerome Foundation Fellowship. Yale University recently commissioned two large-scale group portraits by her for permanent public display on campus. The exhibit originated during an artist’s residency at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale by RiverSpring Health in 2017 and was first presented at Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection.

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My name is Josh.  I am a writer and educator from the Northeast Ohio area.  I plumb the lost depths of American music, searching for old, new and interesting Christ-centered artists and albums.  I also write and perform in the bands, The Brothers of Abriem Harp, a ship at Sea, and Killbuck.   You can stream or download my music here and here.

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  1. I want to say a much-belated yet still-relevant “thank you” for following “A Way With Words.” My joy in writing is made more complete when people read what I’ve written (and even more when they respond).

    While I write primarily about faith and mental illness, I am known to dabble in other subjects, stories, and even the occasional poem. If you have any requests, please let me know.

    I appreciate what you are doing here on your blog and plan to check out your work on Facebook and Bandcamp as well. Music inspires me in my life and writing. I have a Spotify playlist you might want to check out called, “Classic Country Gospel”

    I pray you are blessed, as you bless others.

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Cain said to his brother Abel, ‘Let us go out to the field.’ And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.”

Genesis 4:8

Cain and Abel, 15th-century German depiction from Speculum Humanae Salvationis
In Genesis 3, after Adam and Eve sinned, God’s very good creation began to fracture. Brokenness appeared first in the relationship between the man and the woman, then between people and God, then between people and nature. One main result of this fracturing of life was that human work would be tainted by frustration and fruitlessness.

Genesis 4 reveals how brokenness expands beyond Adam and Eve to corrupt other human relationships, especially the relationship between their first two children. Eve gave birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain was a farmer and Abel a shepherd. At one point, both of these workers offered a portion of what they had produced to the Lord. But “the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,” but not for Cain and his offering. The text does not explain what was wrong with Cain’s offering, only that God was not pleased by it. Cain responded to God’s disfavor with anger and resentment. God reached out to him, encouraging him to “do well” so that he might “be accepted” (4:6-7). God also warned Cain about the sin that was “lurking at the door” (4:8).

Unfortunately, Cain ignored God’s encouragement and warning, throwing open the door to sin. He lured his brother out to a field and killed him. When the Lord asked Cain where Abel was, Cain answered with the classic line, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” (4:9). As a result of his act of murder, Cain was cursed as an exile who would no longer be able to farm. Cain would become a “wanderer on the earth” (4:14), a broken man cut off from family and fruitful living.

I can read this familiar story from a safe, academic perspective, wondering about its peculiarities while reflecting on its themes. But if I allow myself to enter the story, my heart is quickly engaged . . . and torn. I know all too well what envy and resentment feel like, even in the workplace, when someone’s work is celebrated while mine is ignored. So I can relate to Cain, though I have never murdered anyone in anger. Similarly, I can imagine how Abel must have felt in this story, first, as God delighted in the goodness his work produced. Beyond this, I can only imagine the horror, confusion, and betrayal he must have felt in the moments before his brother ended his life.

The text of Genesis does not tell us what happened to Abel’s parents when they learned what Cain had done. I have been with parents whose children have been killed, so I know something of their unspeakable grief. But to have one’s child murdered by his brother, and then to have that brother sent away forever, to lose two children in one day because of the action of one of these children — this is more than I can bear or even wish to imagine.

It’s one thing to sit back and say that sin leads to brokenness. It’s another thing altogether to experience that brokenness, to know its horror and pain, to live with great loss and deep sadness. This is where sin takes us, all of us. Though our suffering may never reach that of Adam’s and Eve’s, it will come, and it will be excruciating.

Excruciating. Do you know where this word comes from? It’s based on the Latin word excruciatus, which is a form of the verb that means, literally, “to thoroughly crucify someone.” (You can see the root “cruc” in the middle of “excruciating.”) The result of sin is excruciating in our lives, to be sure. But God does not stand back from our pain. Rather, in Christ, God took on our excruciation. The Heavenly Father experienced the horrendous death of his own Son so that we might be set free from sin and its deathly results. Thus, in a world of excruciating pain, we have comfort, reassurance, and hope from the God who was excruciated for us.

As you read the story of Cain and Able, how do you respond? What comes to mind? How do you feel?

What difference does it make to you that God has chosen to suffer with us, to bear our sin and pain in Christ?

Gracious God, I am reminded today of the horrible pain that sin causes. How many lives are destroyed by sin? How many families rent apart? How many parents overcome with grief? And this is just the beginning. Lord, have mercy on us!

Indeed, you do show us mercy. Most of all, you have done so in Christ, who has borne our pain and suffering so that we might be set free from sin, suffering, and death. Thank you for this amazing sacrifice.

Lord, as we still live in a world wracked by sin and suffering, may we find comfort and hope in you. May we be agents of your good news and healing in the places we live, in our families, workplaces, churches, communities.

Today, Lord, we pray especially for families suffering from division and for parents who have lost their children. Pour out your comfort and love. Lord, have mercy! Amen.

P.S. – If you’ve been receiving Life for Leaders for a while, you know that our pace through Genesis 1-3 was quite slow. Now, we will begin to move more quickly through the text, sometimes at the rate of a chapter a day. If you have time, I would encourage you to read, not just the excerpt at the top of the devotion, but also the whole chapter.

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I put together a little video about my latest skiing adventure. I hope you get as much chuckle from watching it as I did making it!

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I just got home late last night from a week of skiing with NEHSA (New England Healing Sports Association).

This was the first sports clinic that I have been too and I now realize how much fun I have missed for the past 20 years.

This particular clinic was held at Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire. I cannot say enough good about the organization, the location and the Veteran’s Administration for putting on such an event.

The skiing was SO much fun! But the bonus for me was meeting so many great participants and volunteers to make the week a huge success.

A special thanks to my ski instructors, Mark and Kevin! They were phenomenal to work with and get to know. And to Ken who joined in with our group and let us use his Go-Pro to capture one of my “finest” moments! lol

The plaque on the trophy that I was awarded says it all! And here is a link to a video to show my comedic moment. Skiing

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A very cold (6 degrees F) Sunday morning! But a wonderfully warm church family to worship with…life is good!

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I was watching some news for a bit. I felt like being nauseous, and the news is usually the best way for me to accomplish that.

The last thing I looked at was the story of the disabled man being tied up and beaten in Chicago. One news reporter mentioned that if this case is “raised” to the level of a hate crime, the four attackers could face up to 30 years in prison. Most of you have probably seen the news report but here is a link to what happened.

Chicago beating

As I watched the video, and read the report, I wondered something about hate crimes. Is not “hate” the motivator behind all crimes? People love to jump on the “No Hate” band wagon for their favored group. But is one group any more important then another? Politicians fight and babble over gun control. We can take the gun out of someone’s hand, but until the hate is taken out of the man’s heart, there will be no change. If not a gun, then some other weapon.

So we as society have decided how much hate constitutes a hate crime. And what if I disagree with the measuring rod? Does that make me a hater? Am I as guilty as the attackers in the video if I don’t agree with someone?

You are by now thinking this post ridiculous. Maybe it is. Just seems to me that it is just fine for me to hate, as long as I hate the same things you do. Just don’t let my hate leave the boundaries set by society.

But wait…what if we lived in a world with no hate, no violence, no crime, etc. Oh wait, that would be called heaven. I’m not there yet, but watching the news often makes me wish I was.

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Introduction to High Resolution Melting Analysis

High Resolution Melting is a homogeneous, close-tube, post-PCR method, enabling researchers to analyze genetic variations (SNPs, mutations, methylations) in PCR amplicons. It goes beyond the power of classical melting curve analysis by studying the thermal denaturation of a double-stranded DNA in much more detail and with much higher information yield than ever before.

The most important High Resolution Melting application is gene scanning, the search for the presence of unknown variations in PCR amplicons prior to or as an alternative to sequencing. Mutations in PCR products are detectable by High Resolution Melting because they change the shape of DNA melting curves. A combination of new-generation DNA dyes, high-end instrumentation, and sophisticated analysis software permits the detections of these changes and the ability to derive information about the underlying sequence constellation.

By offering a High Resolution Melting Master PCR reagent and a special gene scanning analysis software for the LightCycler® 480 System, Roche provides a fully integrated, real-time PCR-based gene scanning solution in multiwell plates.

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Advantages of High Resolution Melting as a Method for Gene Scanning

High Resolution Melting provides high specificity and sensitivity and allows the processing of high sample numbers more conveniently and at much lower cost than traditional, non-homogeneous (gel-based) mutation screening methods (e.g., dHPLC) that require amplicons to be screened for variants on a separate instrument after PCR.

With High Resolution Melting, any amplicon can be screened for unknown sequence variants with a single high-resolution dye. Allele-specific primers or probes to target specific variants are not needed, and variants can be detected regardless of their position within the fragment.

Amplification reactions can be checked online for performance to make sure that analysis is based on samples with comparable DNA amount (similar Cp values).

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Why use the LightCycler® 480 System as a High Resolution Melting Platform?

The LightCycler® 480 System offers High Resolution Melting-based gene scanning as an integrated solution on a plate-based real-time PCR instrument. Hardware, software and dye-containing High Resolution Melting master mix have been developed in a concerted manner and are optimally designed to work together to support this novel application. The entire gene scanning experiment can be done on the same instrument for throughputs of up to 384 samples, and post-PCR analysis does not require a separate device. The power of HRM analysis on the LightCycler® 480 System has been well documented in numerous scientific publications.

To offer an integrated High Resolution Melting solution, Roche provides the following products:

The LightCycler® 480 Gene Scanning Software

As an additional analysis module for use in combination with the LightCycler® 480 Software 1.5:

  • Easy to use and integrates seamlessly into the LightCycler® 480 Software package.
  • Supports the use of melting standards for known genotypes to make analysis more reliable.
  • Allows easy access to other LightCycler® 480 analysis functions (e.g., Tm analysis to check PCR specificity, Cp calling to check PCR efficiency).

The LightCycler® 480 High Resolution Master

Optimized 2x concentrated hot start PCR master mix:

  • Contains a novel dye that is not toxic to amplification enzymes and can be used at only 0.8 nM working concentration.
  • Stable and robust in handling, for example, when used in automated workflows.
  • Minimal influence by temperature or irradiation in its fluorescence behavior.
  • Compatible with additives (e.g., DMSO) that enhance amplification of GC-rich sequences.
  • Separate 25 mM MgCl2 stock solution supplied with the Master for easy optimization of the Mg2+ concentration, if required.

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Application Examples

All experiments shown below were performed on the LightCycler® 480 Instrument using the LightCycler® 480 High Resolution Melting Master and analyzed using the LightCycler® 480 Gene Scanning module.

In general, human genomic DNA was purified from independent blood donors and PCR was run in triplicates. Analysis was done by normalization and temperature-shifting of fluorescence data, followed by plotting of the difference in fluorescence between each sample and a sample known to be wild type.

Amplicon Melting to Screen for Heterozygotes

Figure 1: High resolution melting curve analysis reveals differences between homozygous and heterozygous samples. A 163 bp fragment of the human ADD1 gene containing a G → T mutation was amplified from 96 independent blood samples in the presence of High Resolution Melting dye. Difference plot analysis allowed to differentiate between homozygous (wild type or mutant, blue) and heterozygous (red) samples.

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Homozygote Differentiation by Amplicon Melting

Figure 2: High resolution melting curve analysis reveals differences between wild type and variant sequences. A 163 bp fragment of the human LPLH3 gene containing a G → T mutation was amplified from 96 independent blood samples in the presence of High Resolution Melting dye. Difference plot analysis allowed to differentiate between wild type (green), homozygous mutant (red), and heterozygous (blue) samples. In cases where different homozygous forms are not always as readily distinguished as in this example (cf. Fig. 2), strategies are available to increase separation into distinct groups.

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High Resolution Melting Analysis Resolves Complex Patterns of Genetic Variation

Figure 3: High Resolution Melting analysis done on a 219 bp human MBL-2 gene fragment (384 samples) revealed a total of four main genetic subgroups (blue, red, green, and olive) as well as a few samples of two additional genotypes (orange and magenta).

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Probe-Free Diplotyping of two Adjacent SNPs

Figure 4: Segregation of haplotypes (combinations of adjacent SNPs) by High Resolution Melting. A 136 bp fragment of the human TNF alpha gene containing SNP-1: rs10489266 (A to G) and SNP-2: rs1234315 (C to T) was investigated. Analysis with the LightCycler® 480 Gene Scanning Software allowed to differentiate samples homozygous at both loci (green, red), heterozygous at only one (blue, cyan), or at both (pink) loci.

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Diplotyping of Adjacent SNPs Using an Unlabeled Probe

Figure 5: Diplotyping of adjacent SNPs using an unlabeled probe.

The same samples as in Figure 5 were melted in the presence of the depicted unlabeled 29 bp oligonucleotide. Analysis was done using the LightCycler® 480 Tm calling module to study the pattern of resulting melting peaks. Note that the analysis was done at much lower temperature than the amplicon melting in Figure 5. Allowing to make further distinctions within the groups of homo- or heterozygotes, respectively, the result obtained in presence of the probe goes beyond the one obtained with amplicon melting alone.

More recently, the power of HRM analysis for epigenetic studies has also been demonstrated. Roche´s NimbleGen arrays and the LightCycler® 480 System could be efficiently combined to screen genes involved in the control of  tumor formation and progression for unusual methylation patterns. For more information about this study, see Related Documents below.

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A list of published articles using the LightCycler® 480 System for HRM studies is available here.

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Rapid High-Throughput Methylation Analysis Using the LightCycler® 480 System
We assessed the performance of the instrument combined with the LightCycler® 480 High Resolution Melting Master mix for DNA methylation analysis using the methylation-sensitive high resolution melting (MS-HRM) methodology.
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