Juliette Robertson | Author
Juliette Robertson
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20.01.2022 Proud and excited to co-lead this trip. Female? Over 50, and love mountain walks, meeting village women of other cultures and seeing life from a different perspective? If it's your time to take time for you, join me, women's mentor and Brigitte Muir OAM, Oz's first female Everest summiteer, for a women's walking retreat in the Everest hill country that will take you to new personal heights! Doors now open for Nepal April 2020. www.women4womenwalkingretreats.net
15.01.2022 When someone shows you who they are, believe them Maya Angelou I’ve been reflecting on this for a couple of days now. People give us clues as to who they really are in many ways. ... and often we women dismiss and forgive the signs... we don’t want to be unkind or unforgiving. And so we dismiss the signs over and over.... thoughtlessness, unkind words, secrecy, aggression, dismissive ness, the need for control.... until one day marriages or friendships fall apart, or that... stranger’s weird behaviour that we dismissed, turns on us in a violent or hurtful way... That gut feeling we have about people is often true. It is our moral compass, our inner True Self whispering to us. We need to trust it and to honour it. I suspect that as women, we often don’t because we have been taught to forgive. What I’ve come to see is that we can and should always forgive.. but that doesn’t mean we have to be part of their playbook. We can love them for who they choose to be and We can forgive them AND still assertively say that that behaviour is Not OK. At the core, I suspect we often dismiss uncomfortable clues for what they are, because we don’t want to make a decision about what to do about it. Those decisions can be very hard. I know this because I’m ashamed to say that I’ve ducked some obvious clues myself. When people show you who they are, believe them.. What are people showing you that you don’t like? What are you putting up with, pretending and hoping that things will improve ? How’s that working for you? What is your True Self whispering to you to do?
05.01.2022 A poem found me this morning as the tinges of a dawn sun lit the Barenjoey headland and kookaburras laughed.... DROPPING KEYS The small woman Builds cages for everyone she knows.... While the sage, Who has to duck her head When the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful Rowdy Prisoners - Hafiz The poem is in the book untamed that is consuming me...a birthday present from my girlfriends. I’ve called it my orgasmic book because every page is a Yes ! Yes! Yes! Here’s a quote that touched my my soul because it has been my life’s journey, expressed so eloquently that it made me misty eyed. Just wanted to share it with you all.. xx I began building the kind of life a woman is supposed to build. I became a good wife, mother, daughter, Christian, citizen, writer, woman . But while I made school lunches, wrote memoirs, rushed through shops, made small talk with neighbours, carried on with my outer life, I felt an electric restlessness buzzing inside me. It was like a constant thunder rolling right there beneath my skin- a thunder made of joy and pain and rage and longing and love too deep, scalding and tender for this world. It felt like hot water simmering, always threatening to boil... Then the wild rowdiness that had simmered for so long turned itself into words and lifted me, was me. The voice I finally heard that day was my own- the girl I’d locked away at 10 years old, the girl I was before the world told me who to be- and she said Here I am. I’m taking over now . I’m still here So I finally unlocked and unleashed her. I set free my beautiful rowdy true wild self . I was right about her power. It was too big for the life I was living.. ... I resurrected the very parts of myself I was trained to mistrust and abandon in order to keep others comfortable: My emotions My intuition My imagination My courage Those are the keys to freedom. Those are who we are. Will we be brave enough to unlock ourselves? Will we finally step out of our cages and say to ourselves, to our people and to the world: Here I Am
01.01.2022 I love this! How quickly tasks and problems can be solved when we work together
01.01.2022 I read this quote from my local pastors Twitter feed and it resonated with me as I sit here on a quiet Boxing Day. Let’s never forget what we are capable of. Defeats don't have to defeat us. Failure doesn't make us a failure. Getting up one more time than you go down has to be the secret to winning. Just because you're down today doesn't mean it has to be that way tomorrow. Leaders are 'get up again' people.
