It was Monday morning. I was stuck in a hot car park with my husband and 18-month-old son. We were an hour out of Sydney. Our car was broken down. My email inbox was chock-a-block, there were a bunch of voicemails on my phone and I had a ‘To Do’ list as long as my arm.   We’d just spent the weekend on the Hawkesbury River at a holiday house only accessible by boat and after successfully transferring our luggage from the boat to the car with relatively little fuss from my son, we discovered the car had a flat... Read full article »

A few months ago my life was getting hectic.   I was juggling the demands of my small business, the pressure of trying to finish the film, childcare and the usual weight that comes with surviving every day modern life.  My regular yoga practice was compromised and I wasn’t meditating enough. My self-care rhythm was being sacrificed because ‘there was so much to do’. My friends were being neglected. I was eating on the run and not taking time out.   And I knew better. I was just about to lock off the edit of my film about how important... Read full article »

I met someone recently who has stayed in my mind. A young, charismatic man with multiple sclerosis. He had come to one of the premieres of The Connection on our recent world tour.   The reason our meeting stayed with me is because he was already across some of the research featured in the film about how important our mind is when it comes to our health. He’d already read the books written by Professor George Jelinek, who has developed an evidence based program to help other people recover from MS. This young man was strict about his plant based,... Read full article »

My team and I sat down around our meeting table. Things have been crazy to say the least. We’ve been running on fumes for months as we prepared for the release of the film last week. We needed something to give us a boost to get through the day because although the film is now released and most of our teething issues are solved, we still have a lot of work to do.   We’ve been calling it launch lag. It’s a bit like jet lag. The feeling of going around the clock, building to something big and then once... Read full article »

Never before in my career have the stakes been this high. Sure I’ve had stressful jobs involving tight deadlines, big budgets and even bigger egos, but The Connection is the most important thing I’ve done professionally.   I’ve just had the final premiere of the world tour in London. In the last few weeks I’ve been to Melbourne, back home to Sydney, then New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tucson, New York again and now finally London before I head home.   Given my travel schedule and the financial pressure of releasing an independent film, it’s easy to imagine... Read full article »

Jon Kabat-Zinn walked into the building and was instantly mobbed. People around me gushed that he had arrived. One woman started shaking with nervousness as she lined up to take his picture and get his autograph.  Jon Kabat-Zinn, or JKZ as we like to call him in our office, is a rock star in the mindfulness world. He’s a mindfulness teacher with a huge devoted following, who counts among his friends world leading scientists and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. But you wouldn’t know it. He’s not on social media - at all. His fake Facebook page has more than... Read full article »