https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2026/03/05/ancestral-grief-ceremony/ Here is an article I wrote recently in the Deep Times Journal about my personal experience with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Ancestral Lineage Healing, wondering if it resonates with you? 🙂
Category: Wise Woman Within
Sacred Tears Sacred Being
A poem I wrote about Grief and the gifts of Grief at the Dark Alchemy of Embodied Prayer retreat in Kangaroo Valley NSW January 2026 with SoulCraft Australia NZ Sacred Tears, Sacred Being – by Sara Phillips each tear of grief is like a drop of rain on hot stone, or like a summer shower,… Continue reading Sacred Tears Sacred Being
Nature-based Mindfulness Workshop
FREE NATURE-BASED MINDFULNESS WORKSHOP Date: 9 August 2025 Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm Venue: Pelverata Memorial Hall, 1237 Pelverata Rd, Pelverata Morning tea and a light lunch will be provided. Who For: Anyone wishing to learn nature-based mindfulness practices to support themselves and their community. We encourage paid and unpaid care workers. This workshop is part of a larger project… Continue reading Nature-based Mindfulness Workshop
Understanding Your IFS Healing Journey
The healing journey is non-linear, characterized by exploring one's parts through Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy. It emphasizes awareness of a boundless Self while addressing trauma from life and from childhood. Sessions facilitate integration, allowing clients to feel profound shifts and navigate personal growth fluidly. The process cultivates trust and encourages ongoing self-discovery.
What is Eco Soul Therapy?
In eco soul therapy we explore the parts of your own inner ecosystem AND the outer ecosystem that you live in (relationship, family, work, community, society, earth). The focus will be on encouraging you to listen deeply to your own inner wisdom, your Soul / Self, to tend to your individual and the collective, societal and ancestral wounded and protective parts, and to form secure attachments to your Soul/Self, others and to something larger, be that Earth or the Great Mystery.
Deep Parts Wisdom (Spring 2023)
What parts are getting in the way of you feeling harmony within yourself and in your life? What parts are stopping you from having an enlivened response to the world ? Is it fear, grief, anger, confusion, or numbness /powerlessness/hopelessness that is keeping you stuck? If you are like me, on any given day, in… Continue reading Deep Parts Wisdom (Spring 2023)
Our Emotions and Our Earth: Active Hope & Deep Ecology
Cultivating Active Hope Through Deep Ecology (& the Work that Reconnects) The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image… Continue reading Our Emotions and Our Earth: Active Hope & Deep Ecology
Food & Mood Centre Resources from Deakin University
I was lucky enough last night to be a part of the local Mental Health Practitioners Network and the topic was Food & Mood. I was presenting information on the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University and I thought that the information on the research and resources is worth sharing here! A few years… Continue reading Food & Mood Centre Resources from Deakin University
Deep Parts Wisdom Workshop (Winter 2023)
An IFS-Informed Exploration of the Wild Mind: I would love to invite you to an IFS-informed exploration of the Wild Mind Map of the Psyche by Bill Plotkin in a series of 6 online workshops to access more of the archetypes of Self/Soul Energy/Wholeness and to understand the wounded /protector parts that get in the… Continue reading Deep Parts Wisdom Workshop (Winter 2023)
The healing benefits of nature…
Innocently immersing yourself in nature, you will discover in time that nature reflects your soul..."Bill Plotkin SoulCraft Wise Woman Within Retreat February 2022 in touch with nature, heart and soul! Healing Benefits of Nature: The healing benefits of nature are now being well researched and research findings are that "time in nature — as long… Continue reading The healing benefits of nature…