Understanding And Using Our Privilege To Make The World A Better Place

Over the past couple of years, I’ve found myself deeply reflecting on the concept of privilege - what it means, how it shapes our lives and most importantly, how can use it for the greater good.

As a white, cis, upper-middle class woman, I acknowledge that my life has been marked by ease compared to many. While my own personal journey, like everyone’s, hasn’t been without hardship(because suffering is part of being human), there are realities that I’ve never had to face.

I am able-bodied, I’ve never feared homelessness or hunger, and my children went to school without the terror of being shot or violently attacked. I live in a society with excellent access to healthcare and the means to afford private care.

Tanya Cameron24 September 2024Comment

My Mid-Life Diagnosis With ADHD and How Everything Finally Made Sense

It all started earlier this year, with a conversation over coffee with a friend whose husband had been recently diagnosed with ADHD. Understanding his symptoms was the first step in rescuing and repairing their troubled marriage. Her daughter, who knows my son well, mentioned that my son’s behaviour seemed similar to her dad’s, which my friend mentioned to me!

Tanya Cameron6 August 2024Comment

The Role Of A Deathwalker

Death comes for all of us, sometimes it’s fast and sometimes it’s gradual. It is a unique experience for each one of us. The role of a Deathwalker is to be an end-of-life caregiver - a person trained in the dying process - to treat the dying with support, care, compassion and respect. For the person who is dying there is no prospect of getting well or “being fixed”. A Deathwalker helps you to “die well” with a sense of dignity.

Tanya Cameron9 July 2024deathwalker, endoflife, supportComment

Midlife as An Invitation to Freedom & Fulfilment

Midlife is often viewed through the lens of a crisis - a divorce, empty nest, loss of a loved one - and can often feel like a time of loss and disorientation as we confront our mortality.

However this period can also be a profound invitation to freedom and fulfilment, offering us the opportunity to ask deep existential questions; Who Am I? Who Am I Becoming? What Really MATTERS to Me?

Parenthood, Self esteem, Self CareTanya Cameron23 May 2024Seed Yogamidlife, freedom, emptynest, careerchange, valuesComment

My Story Of Recovery

I was 7 when I started to leave my body because it didn’t feel like a safe place to be

I was 11 when I started to feel like I had to manage it, fix it, control it and restrict it.

And then, slowly over time, my body became “the enemy” and my full time “fix it” project

For the next 20 years I lived outside of my body - in an idealised “in my head” version of it.

Tanya Cameron6 March 2023Seed YogaComment

Covid Fatigue

We are experiencing one of the biggest challenges we will ever go through in our lifetime, and possibly the history of humanity, on both a personal and collective level. It is more important than ever that we care for our own wellbeing on every level - mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Tanya Cameron25 August 2021Comment

Unravelling at Midlife

My own midlife unravelling began in my late 30’s and then just after I turned 40, I had a “dark night of the soul” and went through a very dark time suffering with deep depression for over a year. I felt guilty through this time as on the outside it appeared that I had everything that I “should” need to be happy - two healthy children, a happy marriage, a beautiful home, and loving friends. Yet I had this nagging sense of dissatisfaction with my life and felt disconnected and, in hindsight, quite numb.

Tanya Cameron9 August 2021Comment

The Myth of the Yoga Body

I hear it again and again, “I’m not flexible enough to do yoga”, “I’m too old”, “I don’t have an athletic body”, "I’m inexperienced!"

Yoga, in our western culture, has become highly influenced by the impossible ideals of the fashion industry and consumerism.

How Yoga helps children with Self Confidence, Self Expression and Imagination

I absolutely believe that yoga will help to elevate and foster a child’s self expression, imagination and self confidence skills, as they are in a safe space to explore without judgment or a sense of right or wrong.

Parenthood, Self esteem, Yoga, Social mediaTanya Cameron8 July 2019Seed Yogayoga, children, self confidence, self esteem, ImaginationComment

Yoga, Body Image, and our Daughters

I see it in women of every age, my 16-year-old daughter and her friends, some of my clients and some of my own friends. It’s the ‘no pain, no gain’ mentality; the validation of ourselves from the outside in, and it’s a social and cultural issue that we need to change.

Consistent Self Care versus Emergency Self Care

I see it time and time again , women that have pushed themselves to the brink. Most of these women's lives have come to a screeching halt because they are exhausted, sick and disconnected from themselves and their own needs.

I liken it to an energetic pendulum that swings from one extreme to another, kind of like feast or famine - one month full of energy and productivity and the next month heading towards exhaustion, overwhelm and burn-out. It is usually dramatic and unexpected.

We practice in the light that which we wish to remember in the dark

Very few humans, if any, escape suffering in their lives. And whilst this is not something to dwell on, it is comforting to know there are ways to help us when darkness descends, in whatever form that may be – physical, mental, emotional or a combination of these.

Blog Post Author27 February 2019Comment