Our Souls are eternal. Our souls live on once we leave our physical bodies behind.

We are given lessons for our soul to learn in our lifetime here on 🌎 earth.

Our Souls live in the afterlife in heaven. We will meet all our loved ones in heaven. And spend an eternity in paradise.

Whenever life gets you down remember that this life is brief and that eternity is forever. So cherish one another’s soul and if you find yourself missing someone remember that God has plans for us all, and that eternity exists forever and a day. God bless all my loved ones in this life and the next.

If there is any wisdom I would like to express to my readers, it is the importance to be a “giver ” in this world. In a world of give and take, too many people focus on being a “taker”, they all ways ask WIIFM which stands for What’s In It For Me. These people create a vacuum in their lives and literally inhale and draw all energy to themselves. They take so much, that they drain the energy of life and sick it all in. These people are ultimately selfish, and in only taking, they create bad karma for themselves.

If anything, the story of Jesus’s life should teach us the beauty in life, that can be found, when we humbly and graciously learn to give, without the expectation of receiving in return.

My beautiful angel lady Susanna, was one of life’s “givers” who humbly gave her many 🎁 gifts and didn’t expect to receive in return. She gained 🙏 pleasure from giving and she was gracious and humble. Her delight in spreading joy was palpable. She taught me to receive good graciously and never to expect that I earned that generosity.

There are some people I know that do live their lives expecting to be given everything and never give of themselves. They suck the very life-force in and then dont exhale to such an extent that their balloon over inflates and bursts, showering their loved one’s with their neediness. Life comes in waves of giving and receiving and to only take alters this cycle, it is like trying to hold back the tide. Ultimately these people take away the positive energy around them……their loved one’s can only give so much of their own energy before it becomes a drain on them. This unhealthy energy ends up having a negative impact on those constantly giving and creates a reality and destiny that is destructive for those people involved in it. We can generate a negative future, for those we love, by. only taking. Good intentions and good behaviour generate good karma. If you only take from the universe, then the universe gives you back three-fold what you give . Goodwill generates goodwill . I know I have said that many times in past blog 📫 posts. I see evidence of that in my life and I am a keen observer of those around me. I see Gods handiwork in the lives of my loved ones. I see the universe ultimately rewarding good behaviour and I also see the universe giving out some drama in the lives of those whose mission it is to just suck on the teete of life. Some people never learn to give, so the universe gets even with them. Just like the tide comes in and out, the universe gives these takers more of the same until hopefully 🙏 they wake up and learn their lesson. Life will always give you opportunities to learn and grow, you have to be open to these opportunities. Life can be all the richer and create a beautiful masterpiece, if we learn to share our bounty.

I am blessed with quite a number of long term enduring friendships and definitely see that as a gift I don’t take for granted. Friends like Russell and Adrian etc have stood the test of time, and have been a blessing in my more challengibg times.

My longest term friendship is with Vicki. We have been friends since year 12 at high school and she remains to this day a very sophisticated and compassionate friend. We both came from very working class families and both had a sense of true class and honourable intentions, which we both learnt from our honest and hard-working parents. Vicki’s background is Greek, and she, is one the most classy and beautiful women I have ever met. From day one Vicki has worked in a very successful career in radio and now leads a very quiet and gentle life, as a radio journalist in Hobart. Not bad for a girl from Brunswick. She is very dynamic and talented and she has worked hard for everything she has achieved in her working life.

Vicki and I don’t need to live in one another’s pockets, but everytime we communicate, we just pick up where we left off and we are always there for one another in our more challenging times. It is a very easy friendship and I guess over the years, we have developed a sort of shorthand in our friendship, where we don’t have to spend hours explaining ourselves, we just get one another so well that the conversation just naturally continues and develops to grow. I know Vicki well enough over the years to know we always have one another’s back. She remains as classy and witty, funny and talented as the girl I first met back in high school many years ago and I cherish the fact that we have remained cherished friends over the years. She remains to this day, one of the people in my life, that means a lot to me, and I am glad to have been a passenger on her life’s journey and have seen her grow as a person, throughout her career in radio and she what an amazing person she has become throughput some pretty hard times. She is a blessing in my life and I’m so happy we have remained friends, along our journeys of life. True friends always have our combined best interests at heart. Long live long term friends, 🙏 they make the journey very special indeed.

I’ve experienced something of an epiphany in my life recently. An immense amount of stress in my life brought on my mental health issues and it has been an eye opener for me, as I see my support network of friends and family members all struggling with their own mental health issues to varying degrees. It makes my empathic side want to reach out and help them, but I am extremely fragile myself and need to make my own self care my priority.

I think the whole world 🌎 is suffering from a post pandemic, malaise. The pandemic changed our lives in ways we are only just beginning to realise. We are all wounded souls in some ways and there is an increase in violent crimes, abuse and mental health issues in general. I believe the current financial state of the world is also post pandemic, and that only now the world 🌎 is starting to pay the real cost of the pandemic, for several years to come.

What can we do about this? I guess the answer is to become more self aware and develop skills of empathy and understanding of each other. Self awareness doesn’t always come easy. The ability to look inward can be challenging for some people. Skills like mindfulness can help, but we need to be open to this form of therapy.

If only the world has the ability to become more introspective reflective and compassionate of our fellow humans maybe we could start to heal the world 🌎 of the current malaise. We need something to believe in, we need faith to help 🙏 us work to a solution. Im willing to share my faith and try to be positive of my own future 🙏 and also the future of my loved ones.

Are you too committed to being optimistic about one another?. What the world needs now is to love one another and look out for one another.

To my readers I have a confession to make. I have schizophrenia, but I don’t think that is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I think my experience of schizophrenia has made me a better person, because I am an empath and I often feel other people’s pain, which is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because I have compassion and can listen to other people’s sad stories of being victimised and stigmatised and really relate, but being an empath I can feel the emotional pain of these people and want them to know there are people who care when they are suffering and if you have a little faith, there will always be someone who will listen and say I HEAR YOU.

I have a strong faith in God and this has guided me throughout my darkest hours, when it feels like no one cares or understands, and when the negative thoughts become agonising I force my mind to feel better, by doing something caring and positive for a loved one ❤️. I believe goodwill generates goodwill and doing something nice for someone helps my own healing. There is way too much negativity surrounding a diagnosis of schizophrenia, the stigma is awful to bear from cruel small minded people who believe that people with schizophrenia are evil and inferior. My experience of it is that this judgement of us, contributes to and compounds the more negative symptoms and leads to people self harming, comfort eating and feeling suicidal. Just how many people have committed suicide because the emotional pain caused by stigma is to hard to bear.

Honestly battling schizophrenia feels like a war in your mind between good and evil. I am a highly functioning person and I am determined when I am unwell that evil is not going to claim me. I make myself think positive and go put of my way to think kindly of myself and my loved ones. I am truly grateful for the good people in my life, who have some compassion for the impact on me of this spiritual 🙏 battle. I will always advocate for the basic human rights of those who suffer like I do, and I will always listen to and make time to treat people well and empower them to have faith and be positive in their life. When you are feeling disempowered, you need to find whatever works to empower you. What empowers me is my belief in angels. That God sends us angels, as his employees to heal the damage caused by people who stigmatise mental illness. I truly have met some wonderful people working in mental health, my psychiatrist in particular. My psychiatrist is a very wise man and we often talk about faith and people having a life purpose. My purpose is to bring a little empathy, compassion and care to those having such a spiritual battle. I’m not an angel, just a human brought up to be loving and caring.

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Twelve months on Susanna remains as important to me as ever and I sense her spirit is omnipresent in my life.

I find myself reflecting on the impact of her life and passing. No single person had ever had the impact of Susanna, not even my dads passing impacted on me in quite the same way as Susanna

She was an angelic presence and a ray of sunshine to everyone of her loved one’s . I totally wish to follow the example she set with my own loved ones. If I can be half as good as Susanna I will have achieved the example she set, by the bucket loads.

Susanna was the most giving person I ever met, and I mean not that she gave a lot of gifts, I mean that she was the gift and freely gave all of her generosity of spirit, in so many ways. She was the best social worker, that I had the pleasure 🙏 of working alongside. Her understanding of the human condition and her empathy and compassion was the most immense that I had ever seen. She was no bodies fool and would stand up if someone tried to take advantage of her, or put one over her. She was my confidante and she probably knows more about me than anyone else in my life

Twelve months on I know have the opportunity to look back and reflect upon her and just feel grateful 🙏 for what she brought into my life. She definitely was an angel and I know that with every challenge that I have encountered in life since her passing that she has still been sharing the journey with me.

I can still visualise her in her gold sparkling ✨️ halo and her silky white robes. I hope I am still reflecting on her in the years to come and still have her own a big part of my heart

Susanna I will always love and miss you and know we are friends for eternity. Although it feels like forever to we meet again, I know that when we meet again in heaven we will never be parted again. Our Souls are eternal after all.

REMEMBERING THE ANGEL LADY

I’m writing ✍️ this blog post to my unattached readers who a looking for a true partner or prince in their life. My words of advice come from experience and a good place.

My first word of advice is to trust your gut, and if your gut is telling you to be wary of a person to trust that instinct. If things seem too good to be true, trust that feeling and hold off getting too attached to that person. If things seem to be too good to be true, often it is that way. Take time getting to know a person, and don’t get involved too quickly with someone you don’t know. Truly good relationships start out as friends, because you take the time to get to know soneone, before you jump in and take the step of starting a relationship. I had a relationship with someone who chased me for a good two years before we got involved. This person was obsessed with me and kept pursuing me to eventually I gave in. This person promised me the 🌎 world, yet when they had me, started to treat me terribly and treated me like I was inferior and crap. So if things with this person seem wonderful, in the lead up to a relationship, then change overnight once you get involved, then be strong and prepared to walk away. We all desrve better, so walk away before having your sense of self worth damaged.

Another thing high on my list of priorities, is to watch how this person treats your pets . If this person doesn’t instantly treat your pet with love and kindness beware. This goes even more strongly if you have children from a past relationship. I know from painful experience that if someone doesn’t love 💔 love your pet as much as you do and in fact acts jealous of the love ❤️ you have for your pet, be very wary indeed. As I don’t have kids of my own I can only guess that if your new partner doesn’t like the fact that your kids are number one in your life, walk away and choose your children’s welfare as your priority.

Always look for people who are honest, and particularly if people have baggage from a past relationship, look for people who are honest about their baggage and issues from day one.

I guess my main advice in relationship’s is to trust your gut instincts and look for people who are honest and decent. Don’t settle for second best and don’t be pressured into getting involved with anyone before you are ready. Tread softly and lightly where your heart is concerned and don’t rush into anything in the heat of the moment. Let yourself enjoy the courtship, and romance. Far better to enjoy being flirted with, and enjoy that special time, than run the into a relationship with some stranger who treats you terribly once you are involved. If seen one too many friends rush into relationship only to find out that their prince, turned into a cane toad overnight.

Most of all if you practice healthy self esteem and treat yourself with respect 🙏, sorting out the princes from the cane toads becomes easier as we tend to reap what we sow. Enjoy the courtship rituals and don’t be in a hurry. Far better to be with a prince, who offers to walk 🚶‍♂️ your dog with you, than someone who feels the dog 🐕 is their competition. Choose someone who strives to be a good part in your life, not someone who is looking for another name in their black book.