The Brave Discussion

LOHAS is an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), a market segment focused on health and fitness, the environment, personal development, sustainable living, and social justice. Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) describes an estimated $290 billion U.S. marketplace for goods and services focused on health, the environment, social justice, personal development and sustainable [...]

It’s September 11, yet again. This time 11 years have passed since that fateful day changed our lives for ever. We can all recall where we were, the vivid pictures on TV, the worldwide horror and condemnation that followed. So today I share with you a post written last year, that tells the story of [...]

As mothers we are often called upon to keep the peace or more importantly to resolve the conflict that presents itself, a fight over toys, the boundaries pushed by teenagers over time to be home curfews and more.  It’s a path we all identify with and I’m sure many of us has a tale or [...]

Guest Post by Jennifer Burden – Founder of World Moms Blog  -  Do you like the idea of helping children around the world and wish you could do more? What if I told you that you could help by throwing a party?  Now that’s your kind of social good, right? World Moms Blog, an organization of [...]

Reverend Stephanie Dowrick, PhD  is best known as the author of life-changing, best-selling books. They include Intimacy and Solitude, Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love, Creative Journal Writing, Choosing Happiness: Life & Soul Essentials and In the Company of Rilke. Her newest book (2010) is Seeking the Sacred: Transforming Our View of Ourselves and One [...]

What does art, film and the world’s largest garbage dump have in common? Today we have a very special story about a talented film maker and her film, Waste Land, filmed in the world’s largest garbage dump. The film  provides stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. “Waste Land” is [...]

I first came across Cate  Bolt watching her wonderful twitter voice. She connected with her audience in such an authentic manner and I wondered who was this woman behind the ‘twitterverse’ voice.  She seemed to have so many varied interests and in a wide variety of causes. Cate calls herself an ordinary mum, living through all the [...]

Ancient stories, parables can all demonstrate inner wisdom. What insights do you draw from this ancient story. “Long ago, on the site of Jerusalem, the holy city, there lived two brothers. They were farmers who tilled the land they had inherited from their father. The older brother was unmarried and lived alone. The younger brother [...]

By guest blogger Judy Molland. As a fellow Brit, I am proud to call Jane Goodall my hero. Jane Goodall was born in London, England in 1934. As a child she was given a lifelike chimpanzee toy named Jubilee by her father; her fondness for the toy started her early love of animals. Today, the [...]

In times gone past they saved our sons’ lives…. yet the healthcare state of our nearest neighbour remains woeful and among the worst in the world. At church the other week I sat next to a lady from Papua New Guinea. We got talking and she shared with me that she was in Australia to [...]