Young Yogis

Happy birthday 🥳
sorry but you were like a smiling assassin in your first year 😬😆 - a stunningly beautiful baby but a total terror!! But obviously you are making well and truly up for all those sleepless nights as you are the most amazing person and so loved by anyone that the pleasure of knowing you.
You are the quiet achiever + cool as ice. I adore your genuine interest in people and conversations and I believe you can charm the birds out of a tree. 😄
Stay you. I love being your mamma ❤️🙏

It’s so much more than the act of running.
It’s also so much more simple than what the mind tries to make it.
It’s heart. It’s love. It’s passion. It’s belief. It’s strength.
All just a variation of your core spirit and how it shows up, for yourself. With your body as a vehicle.

Year 2025 is soon about to be wrapped up. Year of the Snake (my Chinese zodiac) has been incredibly though and intense, and nothing like I could have ever imagined.

When things are stripped away and layers are revealed, it can hurt and feel very raw.

I was really questioning if I actually cared about crossing the starting line… what does it matter? it’s just a running event, who cares..? It doesn’t change or help the circumstances that are challenging me and my family at the moment… etc etc

But, I did start.
And it’s amazing how much these long trail running races teaches me, what transcends, lands and ignites. I guess I have enough hours for this to occur lol.

That’s me there in the 1st photo, as the 2nd person running.
The landscape is absolutely stunning, the fauna, the creeks and rivers, the huge boulders and beautiful views. It’s truly enchanting.
And I’m SO happy I ran. I now feel this year has shedded what it needed to. Life is more honest than ever.
I am here for new opportunities and the wildest of dreams to come true.

Kosciusko 100K.
It was so insanely windy, like gale force, I had guys grabbing me by my shoulder to help me stay upright 😂
Apart from the strong winds, it was great conditions and I felt relatively good the whole time.

It was great to have my nr one man☝️he took is job very seriously but failed by missing me at Charlotte’s pass (sitting in his car, trusting the event app saying I was 1.5hr away) 😆.
Then totally saved my ass at Village Green and rectified his crew status, pointing out I had forgotten my poles!
But then, the finish line… oh the worst finish coverage EVER 😂.

Done. I’m very happy. And now I’m gonna take up sailing. 🤙

The celebrations have started… Ellie’s making sure everyone knows! To her request, the whole family and her bestie did a Pilates class .co and they did a special shoutout, so sweet. And the class was hard!!!! Loved it.

3 days of crossing icy creeks, traversing snow covered tracks, hiking some mountains and true quality time with friends… these are the kind of thing a I love - I feel age-less and free. (However getting sunburnt and wind blown to threads is a very rapid way to age 🫣😆!)
Snowy river was my way of cleaning, the weather changed every 10 minutes and I never understood why the possum loved licking the back of the van.
Epic weekend all around.
Cheers + - another one in the memory bank 🤙💫

I had some time away… some time to do less to realise more.
To go deeper to rise higher.
To look closer to see further.
To wear less makeup to feel more beautiful.
To get dirty to feel purified.
Simplify, simplify.
So healing.

Thank you for the opportunity, as much as it was a long time coming manifestation of mine, it was divinily timed with the break I needed.
Thank you for all that you are, I think your presence added to the magic of the space and adventures!

Grattis på din födelsedag pappa!
Mitt hjärta, min värld… är så full av kärlek till dig. Tack för allt du alltid gjort och FORTSÄTTER att göra - du är sån spridare av livslust och inspiration, sökare av äventyr och inga problem som är svåra nog att lösas.
Vi alla älskar dig så!!! KRAMAR Pia Dave Lex Flynn Ellie

Wow 13 years of school based learning done .oconnor 🙌 now on to life learning!

So much to reminisce, my heart can’t cope.
From that first day of school, all those sports carnivals, camps, having Ellie as a baby (you were obsessed with her!), eventually all 3 of you at the same school.

High school is a bit of a blur and I know your biggest learnings progressively come from the great outdoors (and that’s beyond fine 💕) but hey you made it all until the end! Now it’s time to SOAR.

Where ever you find yourself, choose wisely, act kindly, be bold and original but equally adaptive. Most of all be grateful and grab every opportunity!

I love you 🥰