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Karen Pennington-Smith Coaching

Locality: Launceston, Tasmania

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25.01.2022 I’m not a fan of any day being the one day to send love. I know a lot of wonderful fathers and I’m grateful I had one myself. I also know a few who did it pretty tough as single father’s often without the kind of support I had from my friends as a single mother. Days like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day can be an emotional challenge for many reasons and even more so during this global pandemic. So let’s say sending love this day and every day wherever it’s needed

24.01.2022 When your colleague from home messages to say she misses you and you have to say I miss you too but sorry I’m not coming back just yet. I sent a photo with stars to brighten the day then stepped out into the sunshine where oysters tea and wasabi chips awaited. Weird combination I agree, however when food is sourced and served with love I couldn’t help but smile. Working from home far from home and feeling very much at home #gratitude #mindset #lovethisguy #workingfromhome #relationshipcoach #mindsetcoach #online #karenps @ Repton, New South Wales, Australia

23.01.2022 Happy Friday from this beautiful beach. The last weekend in November I and can’t help but wonder, how did that happen? This time last year I had plans for 2020, lots of them and none of them included here. The Universe had other ideas #beachlife #livingmybestlife #anythingispossible #gratitude #mindset #mindsetiseverything

21.01.2022 This morning early My Love took our vintage bike for it’s first ride since mechanical restoration was completed and his face depicts the joy one old bike can give. Later we went Op Shopping (that’s Opportunity Shopping in AUS and Charity Shopping in the UK) where I found this retro @charliebrownaustralia dress for $11 (he knows all the best places which is another attribute I love in him) then it was a trip to the beach to watch the surf and as I so often do feel blessed to be here. Happy weekend everyone wherever you are #over60andfabulous #livingmybestlife #love #over60 #beachlife #gratitude #mindsetiseverything #honda #cb500n #superdream #vintagemotorbike #vintageclothing #opshopping

20.01.2022 When the working week includes walking on this beach and then coffee nearby, in between online client appointments, then I think I have the work/life balance right. A year ago I remember writing in my journal my vision for the future including working online, traveling often, living away from home in a warm climate at least three months of the year and being in a loving supportive relationship. Hello my present. Hello my future. Creating a vision for the life you want, writin...g it down, including everything you want, no matter how impossible it might seem, this is the first step. Dream big! Next step is to believe you deserve it. You deserve to be loved. You deserve work that brings you joy and fulfilment. You deserve to be happy. Third step, take one aligned action toward your dream, whether that’s putting it out there for work you love or saying yes to a date or looking at travel options (even during COVID we can still explore online for the future). Finally, trust. Trust it will all happen You are so worth it! #dreambig #trust #believe #faith #gratitude #mindset #mindsetiseverything #relationshipgoals #over60 #relationshipcoach #karenps See more

19.01.2022 Windswept sunburnt happy. Three words to describe how I was feeling this evening as we walked in the wind to the coast. At the end of the boardwalk there are a small collection of locks rusting in the salty air. It reminded me of bridges in Italy and we talked about the reasons why people do this. Have you ever fastened a lock to a rail? What did you do with the key? Keep it? Throw it in water? Have you revisited the place again? I did this once, I placed a lock on a cafe rail - a reminder of me. Is it still there? I wonder... #memories #locks #throwawaythekey #beachlife #love #over60 #ourtime #livingmybestlife

19.01.2022 This path. I’m so glad I took it. To the beach, and to the next stage in my life. When I received the first photo from my love of this beach where he walks most days I did not imagine I’d be here let alone still here six months later and that this would become my beach too. It was a risk we both took - continuing a journey that started in 1977. Ok so there’s been a bit of a break (43 years) but when you think about oceans and grains of sand and life’s big picture and everything we all experience through the course of our lives, well then I think just walk down the path and enjoy every moment for what it is #thepastisthepast #thisisourtime #livingmybestlife #noregrets #love #over60 #gratitude #mindset #everythingispossible

18.01.2022 I remember wearing jumpers like this on early mornings at the beach in the 1970’s. Often the jumpers would be soft and woolly or hand-spun and a bit rough. Boyfriend jumpers were oversized and snuggly, keeping us girls warm while we waited for a decision to be made by the boys on what that fickle surf was doing. When I spotted this one yesterday it was an instant must have, along with a pair of white jeans (and yes, the proper white denim that doesn’t show your flaws in the w...rong light). It’s a funny thing this being twenty in an over sixty body. My mind plays tricks on me when I hear or see something that reminds me of the past that’s right here in my present. I’m not twenty I don’t want to be. I actually don’t wish to be any age other than what I am now. Life is a journey, we all know that. Each decade is often marked by memories of people places music and fashion. How do you remember the 70’s (if you do that is), the 80’s? (apparently if you remember you weren’t there so the saying goes), the 90’s? the naughties? and since then? How do you summarise, in year ages maybe? Well me at 20, I wore a jumper like this and everything was beach and surf related from 14-21 - music, boys, lifestyle and then life changed..#timepasses #surfergirl #thenandnow #over60 #lifeisajourney #mindsetiseverything #gratitude #mindset See more

17.01.2022 Liz Gilbert reminding us about the importance looking after ourselves emotionally and physically so we can also look after others. One breath at a time

17.01.2022 My car has always been my happy place. My first big solo road-trip was at 20. I drove across the Australian Nullarbor Plain from Perth to Melbourne (a bit too much attitude and somewhat foolhardy in retrospect). No mobile phone no GPS in 1977! I’ve loved driving and the sense of freedom that came with it forever. One of my dreams has been to take off on a road trip with no end date, stopping for as little or as long as I want wherever. Camping though is a distant memory and ...associated with surfing, sand, open fires and the cooking limited to whatever could fit in a jaffle-iron. I think I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve slept in a tent, mostly my camping involved sleeping in the back of a station wagon or panel van at the beach, the ‘70’s accomodations were definitely basic. This week though my induction to camping begins anew. There’s a nice canvas tent (yes it keeps bugs out) there’s a vintage Italian camping table and chairs, and the Land-rover can be adapted to cover all eventualities (aka let’s keep travelling). I’m quite excited by the novelty of camping but mostly it’s appealing to my inner gypsy. Maybe it’s COVID restrictions, maybe it’s Spring, maybe it’s just I left home with one case for a few weeks in July and now have no return date, whatever the reason I’m quite ready to hit the road for a few days or longer with my love soon - tent 4WD and of course Booking.com just in case #gypsy #roadtrip #adventure #livingmybestlife #love #relationship #over60 #gratitude #mindset #mindsetiseverything See more

17.01.2022 Bed hair don’t care on a stunning morning after my first night sleeping in a tent in 43 years! Me up at 5.30am is an indicator of something.. how well I slept how early I went to bed (camping is a bed early thing l now remember) and sleeping with the roar of the ocean (for real not on an app). I am very much in my (new) happy place #camping #tent #beach #roadtrip #gratitude #lifeiswhatyoumakeit

17.01.2022 Life is full of risks. Emotional risk, physical risk, financial risk. Most of us know our boundaries and test them on occasion. It’s good to step out of our comfort zones and wise to know our limitations. Sometimes swimming between the flags is the sensible thing to do. #beachlife #tgif #staysafe #takeachance #risk #reward #mindsetcoach #mindsetiseverything

16.01.2022 Saturday mornings are always popular as an appointment time and now that my work is all online I find people are adapting to the new normal and accessing counselling, coaching, therapy, even just a supportive conversation - whatever is needed - via the myriad of technology available. Sometimes I’m in this beautiful home office or outside in the sunshine. Sometimes my clients are at work, or home, or in their car. Not having to drive to an office, find parking, or get out of y...our track pants or pj’s (unless maybe it’s Facetime or Zoom) reduces anxiety and stress for many people. Personally I love seeing clients face to face but I’ve come to love the online space even more as I can work from anywhere anytime. Have any of you considered online support or know people who have? How do they find it? Most of my clients, while sometimes hesitant at first, say it really works for them. I took a couple of headshots after this morning’s appointments to upload on a bio. I do still love the red and black. Thoughts? #online #counselling #therapy #conversationsthatmatter #relationshipcoach #mindsetcoach #workingfromanywhere #karenps See more

16.01.2022 Thank you for coffee in such beautiful surroundings Kathryn Warren xx

16.01.2022 Some days are simply for resting; walking resting reading whatever one feels like, especially on a Sunday. Such a high tide on the beach this morning I ended up with my jeans wet to the knee and memories of playing catch me if you can with the waves as a child came back to me. I’ve always loved wild weather beaches on stormy days and today was one of those mornings with surging seas full of foam catching a walker by surprise as it did us. I actually had an afternoon nap for t...he first time in a long time which I think is an indicator of how safe and settled I feel here. The book I found at the market yesterday is about an Englishman, a piano tuner in 1886, who leaves his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to Burma to tune a rare piano. It’s an adventure, a love story and a story about how a person changes through unanticipated lived experience. Perfect Sunday (and yes there was coffee and even local live music at the cafe) #sunday #ourday #gratitude #mindset #feelingblessed #wildweather #beachwalk #northcoast #nsw See more

14.01.2022 How stunning is this view! My office this morning was a picnic table at the Sawtell Lookout. With a mobile phone (I place it in a tripod) a notebook, EarPods and Zoom I can work anywhere. Friday has come to be my day out, my me-time day for exploring, walking, coffee, whatever, and on occasion maybe an online appointment. It’s not difficult to stop in a setting like this, at a table a bench seat or the car, and have a conversation via Zoom or FaceTime or simply the phone. Cou...nselling has never been more accessible! Seriously if you need someone to talk to find a practitioner online. Yes, check their quals and experience first and also check if there is a free 10-20 minute chat, a try before you commit to buy offer. Then you simply need to trust in yourself and have faith that things will change. #counselling #online #relationshipcoach #mindsetcoach #changeagent #itsyourlife #makethebestofit #mindsetiseverything See more

14.01.2022 Four months ago I had no idea, not even the vaguest suggestion in my mind, that I’d be sitting here right now. I was happily going about my life, my Practice was busy, I loved where I lived and I had been travelling often until the pandemic hit. Generally speaking if anyone asked I’d say all my boxes were ticked. All but one. The relationship one. The Love one I guess. Still, I was ok with that it’s not like I wasn’t happy. I was happy, I was grateful, I had a positive mindse...t, hey I was living my own words. Yes I was. But if I’m honest with myself something was missing. Ok not something, Someone, and I was ready to meet them I just didn’t know where they were. Little did I know we’d already met. Met, loved, parted ways, lost each other for 43 years. Thank you my love for finding me again #lovestory #relationship #over60 #gratitude #mindset #hope #faith #love #mindsetiseverything #relationshipcoach #mindsetcoach #karenps See more

13.01.2022 Another day another week another month in this beautiful place. Feeling rather blessed to be travel restricted in such a location #gratitude #mindset #stayingput #feelingblessed #beachlife #lovethisplace

12.01.2022 This is one of the many moments when I feel grateful for so much. For early mornings warm enough to be outside in my dressing gown, for freshly brewed coffee, for nature the sounds of birds and the ocean, for this space to work in and for the clients who connect with me online each day. I never knew there’d be days like this coming, we don’t always anticipate the wonderful things in life. We’re conditioned to expect the worst not the best. For many of us it’s a legacy from ou...r parents and their parents; maybe they were trying to shield us from disappointment from crushed hopes and dreams. I do a lot of work with clients around beliefs and know how limiting many of our beliefs can be. So what are your beliefs around love and relationships? Or around work and money? I had to change and let go many of my beliefs, and I must say it took a lot of work, a lot of looking at myself, it’s confronting to see what has made you act think and be the way you are. You can change though. You really can. #mindsetiseverything #gratitude #mindset #dream #believe #hope #dreamscometrue#mindsetcoach #relationshipcoach See more

12.01.2022 Three years later and this quote seems very apt today. As many of us do, I made choices as a young woman and from then on that became life’s learning experiences. Would I have made different choices with the wisdom of hindsight? Of course. All those choices though brought me to this place, right here right now, with a man who loved me as a 20 year old and loves me now in my 60’s. Life is certainly a journey, single, coupled, through children, in and out of relationships, and while you can’t change the beginning you can very much start where you are and live the life you want right now

11.01.2022 Late afternoon light reflected on the stone walls shaded by the beautiful trees. A castle built with a love of history and the stories of an English medieval past. Very fitting for this woman who grew up devouring historical novels and studied history, drawn to a romantic mix of fact and fiction. Now I’ve found my knight in shining armour (well a Craftsman in chain mail, no surprise that he actually does the medieval reenactment) and we’re living in his castle until it sells... and the next chapter in our story begins. Our histories are a bit sliding doors, my grandfather’s family came from the Isle of Wight just across from where my love grew up in Dorset. I lived in England as a young teenager for a year in 1970 and we share similar memories of that era as children growing up in the 1960’s. We met in Western Australia in 1977, both of us far from our island homes, looking for sunshine, warm weather, surf and the freedom that was 1970’s Western Australia, the isolated wild west state in Australia. Fast forward 43 years and here we are again, older, wiser and very much in love. Shared history; social, cultural and in our case personal, makes a lot of difference in relationships. It’s like we were together then on separate journey’s for years and now we are home, wherever that might be next...#ourlovestory #history #romance #relationship #startingover #love #over60 #relationshipcoach #karenps See more

09.01.2022 Getting way too used to a summer lifestyle in winter. It’s a new polarised lenses, new white jeans and top down kind of day. Sunday out with my love #lifeisbeautiful #lovethisguy #feelingblessed #relationship #over60 #gratitude #mindset #followyourheart #nevertoolate

09.01.2022 I never knew there would be days like this. Late 2018 I started letting go of ways of being that no longer helped me be the person I wanted to be. I quit my permanent job plus my teaching work and moved fully into private practice. I took risks and followed my heart. I sold my house on the Tasmanian coast and moved to a small apartment in the (small Tasmanian) city. I spent a lot of time enjoying my own company. I made new plans, new friends and I travelled to countries I had... dreamed about for years. I started visualising a life where I worked more online, travelled often, and had a life-partner who loved and valued me - a kindred gypsy spirit. Then came a global pandemic and what could have been a closing of doors actually opened more. My love found me online, my practice went fully online and I found my way here to this beautiful place where I can stay until whenever. No I didn’t know there would be days like these but I certainly dreamed of them #gratitude #mindset #mindsetiseverything #dream #believe #imagine #workingonline #lifeisbeautiful See more

06.01.2022 Tomorrow marks a month in this beautiful place. It’s quite different from my home state Tasmania which is evident by my clothing given it’s supposed to be Winter. Walking in the bush is a bit different for me I’m more the urban landscape and the city parks in Launceston. Here though I get to be in my happy place by the ocean and walking on the beach, Tucker’s Rocks beach already much photographed is down the road but I’m not keen on the walk back up. So before I connect with my clients online it’s around the neighbourhood I go #lovethisplace #tgif #mysecondhome #onthecoast #gratitude #mindset #mindsetcoach #online #relationshipcoach #karenps

06.01.2022 We were not the only guests at the table. How cool to have native birds for company when visiting friends and how stunning is the view! Feeling rather blessed to have made new friends (human ones). With the Tasmanian borders closed I must say I’m feeling very much at home on the big island #bowraville #sundaydrive #newfriends #australian #birds #lovethisview @ Bowraville, New South Wales

05.01.2022 How can I not smile. The pleasure I’m finding in my daily surroundings and the company I’m keeping #sand #sunshine #surf #love #over60 #beachlife #gratitude #mindset

03.01.2022 Maybe not my usual place of work but today hanging out at the combined TAFE/Southern Cross University/CHEC Campus was like being in several past workplaces all at once. Memories of teaching and providing student counselling services in TAFE and providing Social Work Services in schools plus all those years teaching at UTAS...all the different experiences wonderful, good, not so good, and downright best forgotten, they all floated into my present. I must say though I was temp...ted to dip my professional toe back in the pond and had that sense again that 2021 will bring lots of opportunities. So why was I there? My Love studies photography and I thought I’d work online from the library here just because I could. Oh and I wanted to see his first contribution to a student photographic exhibition #worklife #education #reflecting #over60andfabulous #mylife #mylove #livingmybestlife #gratitude #mindset See more

03.01.2022 And that’s Friday from afternoon sunshine to evening sunset. What a beautiful day. Now for pizza and a beer with my love #perfect #tgif #fridayvibes #sunset #weeken. Happy weekend to everyone

03.01.2022 A day of walking down memory lane. Where was I in 1958? In 1966? In 1973? In 1983? In 1985? And so on we went and will continue to time-travel until all the years we’ve been apart since 1977 are experienced through our travel retrospective. We are very fortunate to have this opportunity in Australia to visit/revisit our histories. Showing My Love where I lived went to school worked had my beautiful children and spent some of my life after we broke up in our early twenties is rather magical. More revisiting the past and planning the future to come over the next few weeks. Meanwhile we are simply having fun #pastpresentfuture #fun #joy #love #livingourbestlife #over60andfabulous #gratitude #mindset #feelingblessed

02.01.2022 November will soon become December and I will have been here five months. Five weeks becomes five months, five months becomes five years...I wonder where we will be in five years? After the year that’s been it’s difficult, and some might say unwise, to plan too specifically five years down the track. I believe though we need to have dreams and create a vision and most importantly believe in possibility. We need hope. Well I sure do. Hope is that feeling and those thoughts th...at keep us taking steps forward even on the days we feel like giving up. Five years ago I was not happy (understatement). I was in a negative relationship, I was not enjoying my job, I was stuck in patterns of behaviour which were entirely my own creation and well developed over years of repeated experience. Five years later everything has changed. It didn’t happen overnight either, it was a process that took a few years and yes a lot of risk taking and courage. Trust me it was way more difficult being honest with myself and actually being myself than it ever was being who I thought I should be for others. It’s bloody hard work being vulnerable, staying alone, accepting your imperfections etc etc. People don’t always like the new version of you. For me it was a major attitude readjustment, I questioned my beliefs and values, I changed my mindset, I began practicing gratitude, and started loving myself. I’m still a work in progress, we all are but hey I’m happy, I’m loved, the water is warm, and it’s the weekend. #happiness #love #livingmybestlife #beachlife #gratitude #mindsetiseverything See more

02.01.2022 Waiting for my next appointment sitting outside my home-office in the heat while too many mosquitos form an attachment to me The joy of working from home in a warm location

02.01.2022 A small change of wording and a big shift in accepting that this is what my calling is - Mindset and Relationship Coaching. Conversations grounded in Positive Psychology Theory and Gratitude Practice - Coaching, Counselling, Therapy... changing something in your life starts with understanding your mindset, your beliefs, your values

02.01.2022 The evening light catches me unexpectedly so often in this beautiful space. This C1908 window is one of many recycled windows doors timber stained-glass and now a recycled relationship (or are we upcycled vintage) in this house. I love this beautifully etched glass and it’s 1900’s Australiana story. Oh and I love my C1977 relationship too #vintage #glass #1908 #australiana #vintage #relationship #mylove #1977 #recycled #upcycled #over60 #lovestory #over60andfabulous #

02.01.2022 One of those life is beautiful kind of days. When I can finish work then sit and watch the sun set over water, with this guy, well that makes me happy...#happiness #mylove #sunset #gratitude #mindset @ Mylestom, New South Wales, Australia

01.01.2022 I’m seeing my island home with a new lens these past few days. Being back in Tasmania after months away and having My Love with me is quite surreal. Everywhere we go he sees things I’ve been noticing for years with no-one to share them with: the detail in buildings, the quirks of the architecture, the scent of the air, the light, the landscape and so much more. We’re on a journey the next few weeks exploring Tasmania, sharing my history as the the years between 1977 and 2020 gradually seem to become a moment in time between then and now. It really does go in the blink of an eye - life. #tasmania #roadtrip #livingmybestlife #over60 #love #gratitude #mindsetiseverything #over60andfabulous