I remember the first nursing shift I worked as a newlywed after returning from my honeymoon. I went to sign the medication log and wasn’t sure which name to use. Should I still use my maiden name or my married name? When does my name officially change, I wondered? My supervisor responded ‘Use your married name, that’s who you are now.’ Yesterday I picked up my n....
I’m a crazy, busy mama of three, still in the trenches of grief after losing my mum. I’m like any other human who makes mistake after mistake, who has walked with a giant elephant of self-hatred for years resting on my chest. Combined with a decade of fad diets, post partum depression and a world that told me I wasn’t good enough. It led to an unhappy Angie. I....
Learning and teaching self-love is hard in a society that doesn’t accept exposing our bodies in a non-sexual way. We shy away from the body’s genuine and organic purpose. We are fearful of it. Why? Do you know how amazing we are? How perfectly we’ve been molded together. How miraculous our body is. All the things it can do. Our bodies create and give life. Our....
I was born in South Africa and at 19 moved to Australia and got married. I have two amazing sons as a result of my marriage but at the age of 32 I found myself as a single parent. This was never part of the plan that I had for my life. I devoted the next 10 years to raising my two sons, and at times, working multiple jobs to provide for my boys. I …....
