Living Essence Journal

Greetings from Johannesburg where South Africa is now in Covid-19 Lockdown Level 2. Living Essence is permitted to re-open for guests and we will do so for individuals and small groups with all the physical distancing and hygiene protocols in place. We have plenty of...

Early last year my husband and I moved into a beautiful new home in a leafy suburb, charmed by trees, flowers, bees, butterflies and birds. It was the culmination of a dream in me that started to germinate until it was something that could no longer be ignored. What...

Today’s writing is inspired by a conversation with an extra-ordinary friend. I quoted another conversation I’d once had with someone when I was in my late twenties when I said: “I was not made to live an ordinary life.” I hadn’t meant it with arrogance, nor could I...

Sometimes walking away hasnothing to do with weakness, andeverything to do with strength.We walk away not because wewant others to realize our worthand value, but because we finallyrealize our own.

What does love ask of us? Everything.Love asks us to speak up where we would be silent because we are afraid. It asks us to be silent where we would fill the stillness with empty words. Love asks us to see the other in their beauty, even when they are angry or...

Is it possible to say I’ve come through this transition phase? If we’re committed to a life of transformation, ongoing personal growth and consciousness, then all of life is a transition, but in other ways, the steps and actions we apply to reach certain goals and...

One of my inspirational people is Steve Jobs and a friend of mine shared the transcript from the speech he gave in June 2005 at Standford University. How uncanny coming from a college drop-out. We’ve honoured this man and his life as we’ve had news of his death this...

What if I live wholeheartedly and courageously get out of my own way?What if this isn’t living in limbo, but rather the first samplings of the life of simplicity I’m creating?What if it’s ok to cry, even if I’m the mother and the older sister, even if the tears...

Transition is defined as “the passage from one state, stage or place to the next”, “an event that results in transformation”, or in music it’s “the passage moving from one key to another”. This made me think of the rites of passage that we transition in life… from...

Surround yourself with people who believe in you; with positive and inspiring human beings who will lift you higher. Have you heard it said that the company you keep colours you?  We all know people who drain and deplete our energy, who endlessly complain or criticize...