The biggest journey of serious health challenges is the process of mentally busting out of the matrix. Getting stuck on how life should look gets people stalled in denial, frustration and resistance. Having a chronic illness changes everything, but it doesn’t make you a failure at life. Turning your back on lifelong dreams is no easy task. The grieving process needs to … [Read more...] about Redefining Success – life in the slow lane
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Barwon Mould Remediation Help Save our Build. Twice. Part I
So far, the Eco-friendly, Allergy-free House project has been through 2 winters; the first winter, in 2016, before full external lock-up, almost completely disabled, laid flat with exhaustion and headaches, I was living/existing in one of those mouldy rentals from hell; we were behind time with the build; so many things haven't gone as planned; however, disasters have been … [Read more...] about Barwon Mould Remediation Help Save our Build. Twice. Part I
Hidden Housemates: meet the moulds growing in your home
This article was originally published at The Conversation Michael Taylor, Flinders University Home alone? Hardly. Our homes are positively swarming with creatures of all kinds. In our new series, we’ll be profiling the “hidden housemates” that live with us. Our offices and homes are full of airborne spores from fungi, and for the most part we never even notice … [Read more...] about Hidden Housemates: meet the moulds growing in your home
CIRS diagnosis
(Note this post has been updated as it was full of grammatical errors, including 'Lime' instead of 'Lyme', which the personal acknowledgment of this public mistake has shown me that I've evolved as a writer; whereas once I would have been curled up in the foetal position, sucking on my thumb, ruminating on the humiliation of it all, I can now laugh about it.) First, … [Read more...] about CIRS diagnosis
New Rental and Throwing Stuff Out
Impulsively, I went online, looking for a rental, my mould-induced-scatterbrained thoughts: just a rolling tumbleweeds in the moment. The area I'm building in is made up of a hundred or so houses; the likelihood of finding a suitable rental there is made up of the odds: 1 to nothing. It took one year to find the rental I'm in now (on the opposite, busy end of town). And … [Read more...] about New Rental and Throwing Stuff Out