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True Love and Tea
Madeleine shares her story of what can happen when we stop playing ‘the dating game’ and choose to simply be ourselves.
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Fairy-Tales - why a romantic relationship is so hard to find
Seeking true love from a romantic relationship – a Fairy-Tale romance - is a game of pretend. Has our perception of relationships been corrupted by romantic fiction? Read this article on how we have been duped
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Popular romance and true intimacy in a relationship
How popularized romantic beliefs and ideals work against true intimacy. Ideals and beliefs are mental constructs, true intimacy is in and felt through your body.
Romance, Intimacy, Healthy relationships, Illusion, Valentine's Day, Love
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Nostalgia and regret – where is the love?
The ideal of romantic love – does it set us up for regret and nostalgia that could stunt our true love for all?
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What is true love?
What if true love is actually the opposite of what we think it is?
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Beyond Valentine’s Day
Scratch beneath the surface of Valentine's Day and there is a desert of broken hearts and smashed lives – is this love?
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Love is ...
Have you ever been posed the question, ‘what is love?’ It’s an age-old question and one that is still consistently and frequently asked. So why is it we are still asking and how is it that we don’t know?
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Prince charming vs true love
Romance and true Love are two very different things. True Love is not something to be found ‘out there’ with an idealistic Prince Charming, but comes from within through the deep care and love of ourselves first.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s theatre of the absurd
Shakespeare’s first play about the unseen world of spirits and invisible forces unravels the utter absurdity of how humanity operates under their influence, and how we so easily get lost in the tangled drama of emotional love without ever questioning its source.
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Is it normal to be bored in a relationship?
How do we keep love alive? Getting bored in a relationship is something many people experience. So why do we find ourselves empty and needing to ‘re-fill’ so regularly?
Communication, Intimacy, Love, Marriage, Connection, Romance, Self-love, Tension, Healthy relationships
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Being Single – are we still special without that ‘special someone’?
An exposé on societal conventions to get ‘coupled up’ and ‘settled down’ – the not so subtle pressures that frequently play out in family situations and at dinner party conversations in true Bridget Jones’ Diary style.
Single, Relationships, Healthy relationships, Romance, Self-love
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The Ring – Part 1: Our fascination with weddings and rings
This four part series explores our expensive and cruel fascination with rings, weddings and the pressure, status and emotional security behind the sparkle.
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The Ring – Part 2: Ideals, profits and pressure
This second article in a 4 part series, The Ring, explores the volatile monetary and emotional value of engagement rings and the sticky obligation and manufactured need behind them.
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The Ring – Part 3: Wedding proposal fantasies
This third article in a 4 part series, The Ring, explores the fantasies that feed our ideals of the perfect proposal and the prize of a more-expensive-the-better engagement ring at the expense of true intimacy and connection.
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The Ring – Part 4: Surrender, responsibility and love
This final article in a 4 part series, The Ring, asks if beyond commercial and emotional interests, does the ring have a true place in a marriage proposal and the rituals of commitment and marriage?
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Love is Love: Gender and the truth in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is a dark, bittersweet comedy about Love. Shakespeare pulls the plug on the folly of human behaviour that we subscribe to when it comes to gender, love, and desire . . . all of which we have imagined love to be but which actually sets us up to keep love at bay.
Sex, Making love, Romance, Same sex relationships, Sacredness, Time, Gender
