Integrating Awareness - Meaningful Life Coaching and Counselling

01/06/2026

https://intawa.com.au/relationship-communication-facts-and-stories/

Everything that we rely upon in relationship communication is subject to interpretation. This is the main cause of misunderstandings in relationships.

20/04/2026

Passive abuse in your relationship?
There are many forms of abuse that may occur in a relationship. Most abuse is recognised as “active abuse,” but there is another, less recognised form of abuse too; “passive abuse,” which can be equally destructive to relationship quality. The dynamics of passive abuse are related and similar to the dynamics of passive aggression.

Passive abuse is as destructive to a relationship as active abuse. The dynamics of passive abuse are similar to those of passive aggression.

17/04/2026

Mid-life crisis, or is it an opportunity, or both?

Mid-life crisis, that’s what men go through in their forties, when they leave their wife and children to hook up with their blond, young bimbo of a secretary, and go cruising down the highway with her in the newly purchased red cabriolet, on the way to a saucy weekend in a seaside resort, isn’t it?

Well, that’s how we often depict mid-life crisis in contemporary Western society at least. But the mid-life crisis is actually something far more important and meaningful than that. Or at least it can be. If we stop dismissing mid-life crisis as a joke, and open our minds to it as an opportunity for growth and self-actualisation.

In Western culture the mid-life crisis is often dismissed as a joke. But it is actually an opportunity for growth and self-actualisation.

10/04/2026

TEN years in a row, now. I must be doing something right. 😁

10/04/2026

Is there something wrong with you… or are you simply an introvert?

In my work as a counsellor & psychotherapist it happens quite regularly that a client comes to see me because they feel out of place in social situations, and think there is something wrong with them, since they are not the way most other people seem to be. Many times these clients have gone down a path of self-doubt of a kind that has led them into depression. Yet, once we start talking, it turns out that they are simply an introvert who has acquired a skewed perspective of what other people are actually like.
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While an introvert may feel out of place in some social situations, they do have a lot to offer when it comes to forming a meaningful relationship.

22/04/2024

In case you have an interest in non-medicalised (yet, with access to all care you may need if something goes wrong) birthing, this may be worth a view. I just had a chat to one of the producers, and thought she sounded... well, sound.

Host a screening of Born At Home near you. Born At Home takes viewers on a journey to understand what it takes to have a positive and transformative birth experience. Featuring insights from women's personal birth stories, midwives, medical professionals and researchers, the film explores the import...

25/10/2023

Feelings/Emotions are very familiar to us. We experience them all the time. We talk about them often. But what are they, really? Where do they fit into the Mind, Body & Soul composite? Do they exist in a realm of their own? Are they messages from the divine? I came across all kinds of suggestions for the nature of feelings/emotions – some weirder than others, I must say.

So, one night many years ago, I decided to put my awareness to the task of investigating the matter thoroughly. It took me most of that night, but what I found has been very useful ever since, for the work that I do as a meaningful life coach, counsellor and psychotherapist.

Feelings and/or Emotions are very familiar to us. We experience them all the time. We talk about them often. But what are they, really?

05/10/2022

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We're a non-profit that depends on donations to stay online and thriving, but 98% of our readers don't give; they simply look the other way. If everyone who reads Wikipedia gave just a little, we could keep Wikipedia thriving for years to come. The price of a cup of coffee is all we ask.

26/04/2022

Get counselling services recognised by Medicare - sign this petition now!

Include counsellors on Medicare to Meet Australia's Mental Health Crisis

21/10/2020

For the 5th year in a row I have been rated as one of the TOP 3 Marriage/Relationship Counsellors in Brisbane!
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