‘Risking Wonderful: The art of living inside-out’
Global Contact Bookstore
recently interviewed me about my new book:
Who do you feel can benefit from reading the book?
I think anyone who would benefit from a bit of positivity, affirmation and inspiration…!
Also anyone who has ever felt the need to hide their authentic self… (perhaps imprisoned within the straight-jacket of black-and-white worldviews, or a beige one-size-fits-all conformity; or fear; or secrecy and silence)… I hope my words encourage them to find their own voice: to hide no more!
Why did you feel the urge to write it?
I spent a lot of my life not really being me. A half-life in many ways. So I wrote this book to save others some time: some life!
Also I have been greatly encouraged by the stories of people who have shared similar questions and struggles to me, and somehow ‘got to the other side’. I wanted my stories to provide that same sort of encouragement for others: to model true colours shining; fear turned to freedom; inside-out and being ok…
I really wanted the stories, illustrations and layout of the book to be a creative collaboration that mirrored and modelled my move from fear to courage; compromise to authenticity; ‘independence’ to community; black-and-white to rainbow.
How do you think the message in the book applies, regarding the events that have and continue to unfold this year?
What an extraordinary year 2020 is proving: not just here in Australia, but all around this planet we share as ‘home’!
For me, many ‘events’ of this year – Eg. ‘Black Summer’ bushfires, Black Lives Matter and Climate Change protests, COVID-19 – speak of imbalance. They remind me (as does ‘Risking Wonderful‘) of the need for harmony within the wonderful web-of-life we (and all others) embody.
Perhaps our Covid-19 lockdown experiences might alert us to the ways we unconsciously live like this at other times… locked deep within ourselves… and so help to bring us to a greater sense of connection and consciousness?
If Risking Wonderful has one message for readers – this or any year, it is simply this:
… Be your wonderful self!
For the Community-of-Life can never be whole, without the whole of you!