L E T T E R from Jac – Never Burn
In today’s society, which is riddled with muddled messaging, knowing how to hold oneself is becoming increasingly challenging. Sayings such […]
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L E T T E R from Jac – Bringing A Little Love To It
An important question I ask myself when I am feeling very contracted is how can I bring more love to this. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Daily Grinding or Daily Grounding
I personally dislike the constant messaging in the self-development and entrepreneurial spaces of rise and grind. Of own the day. […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Sinking Ships
We’ve all had the experience of treading water, just trying to keep our head above, and at times feeling more […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Struggle is Real
When I first heard this it gripped my heart with a big fat YES! Tomorrow is too much day for […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Other Side Of Fear
With our upcoming move to London, Arran and I have been working with a lot of fear. That’s the thing […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Loving The Thought Clouds
As a chronic over-thinker, the two most valuable way of addressing thoughts were by a Buddhist teacher a long time […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Support and Synchronicity
In life, there is sometimes universal support, and sometimes too many roadblocks. Discerning which is which simply takes years of […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Not Of This Earth
There are over 100 billion stars and there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all […]
L E T T E R from Emily – The Person I Am
How many of us have tried to be shapeshifters, fitting some kind of mould to be more liked, loved, and […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Get Out of the Cul-de-sac
If you ever find yourself knee-deep in self-righteousness (Coo-ee!) or complaining/whining/elegantly demonstrating the shortcomings of others, situations or experiences (who […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Giant Update
Morning everyone! As a new chapter opens for The Broad Place I wanted to take the time to put the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – When Is The Right Moment?
The question I get asked from students often is ‘How will I know if it’s the right moment to do […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Evolution and Change
After yesterday’s ginormous Letter, we also have something to share with you! The Broad Place has been one huge adventure […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Redefining Success
I would like to spend some time this week (within the gift to me, that is these Letters, as I […]
L E T T E R from Emily – The Four Agreements
“Death is not the biggest fear we have;our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive” – Don Miguel […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Nature Is My Religion
I don’t have an official religion, but my temple is the ocean. My altars are the trees. Animals are my […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Power of Intent
There is a system within the Vedic lineages called ‘tapasya’ which is essentially the renunciation of something we enjoy, in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Anxiety Remedies
Ram Dass really brought home the message ‘Be Here Now’. In fact, it was the title of his pivotal book, […]
L E T T E R from Emily – The Work
“Dust settles, I don’t” – Anita Kopacz I was listening to a podcast (Ancient Wisdom Today) a few days ago, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Truly Transform 2019
Life is this strange sequencing of events, isn’t it? And when we look at a year, it is like 12 […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Where Are We Blocking Compassion
I raised this in our Tea Ceremony and Meditation Gathering last Saturday because someone asked it of me awhile ago and it really stuck […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Our Practices
Too often we think, myself included, ‘I don’t have time for this’, surrounding anything that is nourishing, rewarding, spiritual and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Everything Is The Path
Even the crap bits, shit bits all the bits in between. It’s funny how in hindsight we understand that everything […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Warrior of Love
“I am a warrior of love.I am the light that lights the path of my soul” – Unknown Who’s ever […]
L E T T E R from Jac – You Determine The Course
Gah how I love this quote! I wanted to end the week with it. When we don’t know what our […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Accepting Everything
There is a Zen saying Susan Murphy taught me, which is no matter WHAT is happening, you send out into […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Competing and Comparing
Due to our recent (Saturday) graduation of beautiful and integrity-filled Vedic Meditation teachers, I have been thinking a lot about […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Deep Gratitude
Today is Letter 300. There are so many Letters behind these when I wasn’t tallying them up. But 300 feels […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Heavy and Light
This reminds me of something my friend Sam from Cloud Hidden Tea told me about tea ceremonies; work with the […]
L E T T E R – Gratitude For The Little Things
The other day in London, we discovered a street cart outside a mosque, where Kaz the owner makes some of […]
L E T T E R – Navigating Our Own Path
Okay ‘huge news’, we have moved our quotes to a neutral colour palette. I share this not because it’s going […]
L E T T E R – You Do You Baby
What if taught all our kids that normal was beige, nothing to aspire to, and to totally and utterly embrace […]
L E T T E R – The Courage We Once Had
When I was young, I was a strange little kid. I didn’t fit in at all. Eccentric, hyperactive, skinny and […]
L E T T E R – The Thin Thread Between This Life and The Next
David Whyte said,’ How easily the thread is broken between this life and the next’. It’s a beautiful line, isn’t […]
L E T T E R – Creating Space And Pause Before Action
I had a conversation with a dear friend and meditation student on the weekend about the never-ending list of ‘All […]
L E T T E R – The Most Expensive Price Tag In The World
I had soooo many people respond to the letter (What Would You Create) about what would you do if you couldn’t […]
L E T T E R – Dark Nights Of The Soul
This is that tricky time of year I find when we bound in with full enthusiasm, transformed by new possibility […]
L E T T E R – Wise Choices
A little list of things I would recommend if you’re stuck making choices at the moment. It’s a big time […]
L E T T E R – Happy New Year!!!
My absolute goodness what a year. For Arran and I, it was beyond what we imagined. I travelled to London, […]
L E T T E R – Humility and Service
I spent most of Friday emailing back students who had applied for the scholarship of Be Your Best Self. We […]
L E T T E R – Which Would You Choose
This quote has been playing around in my mind like a Zen koan for some time. It can be viewed […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N – With Kate Pascoe Squires
This Weekend Edition we are proudly introducing you to Kate Pascoe Squires, who has been making some significant and inspiring […]
L E T T E R – The Chasing of Perfection
When Emily or I teach Integrated Meditation, we both drill into our students to not chase perfection. You will never […]
L E T T E R – Your Choosing
I am trying hard to help my daughter be empowered to make the choices that are right by her. To […]
L E T T E R – Constant Failure
I looked after our friends’ little boy called Sonny the other night, the whole night and morning while they went […]
L E T T E R – The Simplicity of Meditation
Meditation these days is a name for a lot of different things, a lot of which is not meditation. Something […]
L E T T E R – New Beginnings
I meet a lot of people who comment they’re too scared to learn meditation because of what they might discover […]
L E T T E R – Shadow and Light
When living a conscious life, it’s not all unicorns and rainbows. People sometimes think that they can walk a conscious […]
L E T T E R – No Really, Who
I still remember reading The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand’s pivotal book. I was maybe 21 at the time and it fried […]
WEEKEND EDITION with Amanda Talbot
Amanda is a dear friend of ours, and we have not only worked together, (you might remember Hiro her little […]
L E T T E R – The Heart
I often ponder why it’s so hard to follow our hearts and even harder sometimes to hear what they have […]
L E T T E R – Clean, Simple, Distilled Thinking
I used to have a terrible aversion to saying no to people. I had, (and still do) a big fear […]
L E T T E R – A Commitment To Adventuring
My Dad was a very renowned chef, winning best restaurant in Australia as well as three hats. His brother, my […]
L E T T E R – Excuses Keep Us Small
I had a catch up the other day with someone and it was like I was in overdrive. I left […]
L E T T E R – Some Thoughts On Overwhelm
Wow, this weeks’ Letters seem to have really triggered a lot of thought and reflection from many of you!! So, […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 3; Overwhelm
If you haven’t read the first and second part of this Letter series, you can check Part 1 and Part […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 2; Bravery
If you haven’t read the first part of this Letter series you can do so here. Continuing on from yesterday! […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 1; Adopted Fears
Arran, Emily and I get so exhausted by all the ‘Be Fearless’s self-improvement mush that is shoved down everyone’s throats […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 21
Photo from our India Retreat in Rishikesh Oh my lord is it excellent to be home! So emotional! So wonderful! […]
L E T T E R – Truth Telling
Having a teenage daughter, the essence of telling the truth is really up in our grill at the moment. And […]
L E T T E R – Working with True Knowing and Dealing With Disappointment. Part 1
Our recent trip to India took a year to plan. The major component was our Broad Place Retreat which had […]
L E T T E R – Revelling in Beauty
Beauty can be so underrated in our modern way of life. Tiny moments of beauty can light me up for hours […]
L E T T E R – We Are All Judgemental Assholes
We can’t help it a lot of the time. It’s automatic. Our egos are constantly sizing everything up against that […]
L E T T E R – There’s Always Something Better Happening
For our recent India Retreat, I had it all mapped out. Tightly organised, planned to within an inch of its […]
L E T T E R – The Material World
A student messaged me last week saying she felt disgusted with herself and angry, as she still longed to buy […]
L E T T E R – What Spirituality Means Part 2
Yesterday, I wrote in the Letter about re-framing spirituality and you can read it HERE. It’s a big topic and […]
L E T T E R – What Spirituality Means Part 1
There is so much confusion when we decide to live ‘spiritually’. It’s really a nonsense idea because everyone is trying […]
L E T T E R – Real Power
Being a recovering control freak and perfectionist, OCD, a Virgo and aaaall the other labels I could apply to my […]
L E T T E R – Building Stillness and Acceptance
In the Vedic view, there are three things present at all times. Creation, maintenance and destruction. The Vedic view of […]
L E T T E R – Self Acceptance
This Letter today stems from the Letter I wrote to you a few days back, What Might You Be If […]
L E T T E R – Gaining Clarity On The Lack Of Clarity
Educating ourselves is fascinating and frustrating at times, as the more you learn, the more you realise you don’t know. […]
L E T T E R – Expanding Curiosity
I couldn’t agree more that curiosity in all aspects of life is needed for creativity and flow. Arran told me […]
L E T T E R – What Might You Be If You Just Let Go
Before I left for India, I sat with my friend and student, Uyen, in Whale Beach drinking tea and we […]
L E T T E R – Celebrating 200 Letters!!!
There are days when I sit to write these Letters to you and I feel physically ill. I am overcome […]
L E T T E R – Choosing Your Path
Well, this week’s letter’s have certainly taken on a slightly serious tone! I didn’t mean them to, but they do […]
L E T T E R – How Will We Choose To Really Live?
There is so much programming involved, in how we think we should be living. Paradigms created by so many people […]
L E T T E R – It’s All Just Grist For The Mill
I got a text from a friend the other day, reporting something insignificant on another friend that I had a […]
L E T T E R – Dealing With The Criticism of Others
There is feedback, and there is criticism. There is moaning, and then there are witch hunts. I posted last week […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 20
READ I adore this book by our friend Josh, his approach to creativity and consciousness continually inspires me. I interviewed Josh […]
L E T T E R – Can We Embody What Nature Knows?
We have a huge tree in our garden, and when we moved in became very fond of it as throughout […]
L E T T E R – The Wild Fevers
I have so many interests and creative outlets I sometimes can’t breath for the joy of it all, and I […]
L E T T E R – We Are All Going To Be Dead, Sooner, Later, Who Knows
Some people come to learn meditation because they are keen to be their best selves, they feel unreal and want […]
L E T T E R – Saying ‘I Don’t Know’
When did we lost the art of saying, ‘you know what, I don’t know’ or ‘wouldn’t have a clue’. When […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 19 – Restore and Renew
For you to try . . . EAT We are eating mostly plant-based at the moment, and 75% of the […]
L E T T E R – The Creation of Time
Time is something that expands and contracts, as it’s all a perception. Stay with me, I know it sounds a […]
L E T T E R – A Path To Authenticity
Our daughter is doing a speech for school and had to incorporate a bunch of keywords including resilience and respect. […]
L E T T E R – A Sequence Of Small Choices
My dear friend Jen was recently telling me a story about a conversation she had with her teenage son. He […]
L E T T E R – Knowing Our True Nature
Sometimes people think spirituality is all mung beans and hand holding and unicorns. Sometimes people think spirituality is a word […]
L E T T E R – The Freedom To Make Mistakes
As a recovering perfectionist, I have had intense experiences around making mistakes. It makes no sense as part of the […]
L E T T E R – Fluidity
I was once taught an analogy that I have carried around with me since from Taoism. It is that when […]
L E T T E R – Getting Off Our Arses
The Buddhists say the root cause of suffering is our attachment to desires. It’s not our actual desires. But our […]
L E T T E R – Dissolving That Which Divides Us
Long lasting change doesn’t come in a silver bullet, a bandaid or a quick fix. I was interviewed by our […]
L E T T E R – The Privilege Of A Life
Life is so fragile. We never know when it will come to a close. As humans, we can be bitter […]
L E T T E R – Creating Space For Creativity
I don’t mean physical space here. But emotional space. Conscious space. Creative space. Working stuff out space. A sacred space […]
L E T T E R – To Create And Be Of Service
Over the weekend we put out a survey, which was answered by SO many which make me SO very pleased […]
L E T T E R – You Choose; One Leaf Or The Whole Tree?
Picture a large majestical tree. We could just acknowledge a single leaf, and fixate on it, cooing over the leaf, […]
L E T T E R – Savouring The Little Success and a Key To Presence
As soon as I return from a holiday as I have this week, I can feel myself slightly panicking about […]
L E T T E R – The Art Of Directed Attention and Stopping The Stewing
Something happens to us that causes upset. We stew and sulk and can’t help but tell people about it. With […]