: About Me

I am a Sydney based English as a Second Language Tutor, Piano Teacher and Primary School Teacher. I have a Master of Education (TESOL), Diploma In Book Editing and Publishing, a Diploma in Education (Primary) and a Bachelor of Arts(Communication).

My greatest passion is music and I am currently working on my own cd - a compilation of songs I have written and arranged. Writing for me is something which I have always done as the most obvious means of expressing my emotional states and opinions.

I delved into creative writing and poetry from a young age becoming a finalist in the Sydney Poetry Olympics in 1996 and have since participated in many writing competitions. In addition I have worked in legal and financial publishing and am now working on a children's book.

Writing in all its forms is an energy which I think we must all embrace as its power is enormous.

My passion is ...

Music and Writing

I know too much about ...

people

My parents always told me ...

use your potential

My childhood ambition ...

to be a singer

My favorite memory ...

making a piano out of stones

Why I write ...

to free myself

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading 'Freakonomics', watching 'Jane Eyre', listening to the 'Foo Fighters'

My first job ...

working in a record shop

My best moment ...

too many

My inspiration ...

people who are true to themselves

Relationships & Family > Domestic Violence & Abuse How to recognize and get out of an abusive relationship

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We often find ourselves 'justifying' many behaviours in our lives. We 'justify' our mother's and father's annoying habits and our siblings' irritating ways. However, when we justify our partner's habits, we tend to 'skip over' the effects of these habits because we 'justify' them EVEN more. 'That's just the way she is.' 'He likes it that way so I'd better do it.' When we spend a long period of time with someone whom we know we cannot escape as easily (ie. those to whom we are married or in a close partnership with) we tend to become 'part of them' and so we excuse a lot of their negative b...

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