Body Mind Soul writer/speaker & Work Life Balance consultant Ruth Ostrow on Sea Change:
In 2000 as the new millennium dawned I decided to leave behind the chaos of city life and explore a new way of being. Call it Sea Change, downshifting or voluntary simplicity - I traded a penthouse apartment in the pre-Olympics city of Sydney for a modest beach-shack in Byron Bay surrounded by rainforest, living the life I always wanted, writing about simple pleasures.
I had made lifestyle choices that allowed me to balance my work with the rest of my life, and to practice total health, throwing away the gowns, appliances, and expensive consumer trinkets I clung to in my former life as a high-flying finance journalist then Sex&Relationships writer/broadcaster and donning a sarong, sandals and freer attitude to living instead.
The simple life I had chosen was filled with abundance and joy. I had chosen a time-rich alternative – giving myself more time to invest in my greatest assets – my body, my soul, and my relationships.
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And yet, even as I walked away from my former high-pressured lifestyle, I discovered that I’d never had as much success at work and play in my entire life, nor as much vitality, energy and creativity.
I realised how important it is that we feel nourished and nurtured, and that we practice what I term The Pleisure Principle: putting the pleasure back into leisure, in all key areas of our lives.
Coaching for Total Health and Wellness
Now, as Health and wellbeing writer with
The Australian newspaper and Work Life Balance consultant
for hire, I have embraced the Wellness Revolution sweeping the world, coaching in such areas as longevity, healthy-ageing, and total health - financial, sexual, relationship, emotional, physical and spiritual -- drawing on my years of experience as a journalist in all these fields, and on my own research into personal development, sacred psychology, spirituality, sexuality and emotional intelligence to help people achieve optimal health in all aspects of their lives.
People I work with may be seeking wellness on an individual basis or as part of an organisational or corporate structure that seeks to ensure a healthy working life.
These pages will tell you more about what I've written and done, what I've found out over my years as an explorer of the human heart and spirit, and how I can use my experience in the area of BodyMind Soul - including my years studying Eastern philosophy, Buddhism, Tantra, Yoga, spirituality, anatomy and physiology, natural medicine, psychology and self- development with many great Masters - to bring about a metaphorical Sea Change in any individual or organisation.
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"Simple Pleasures", "The Gift" and "Sacred & Naked"
My books, in particular my most recent works "Simple Pleasures", "The Gift" and "Sacred & Naked" explore all the concepts and the life lessons I have learned on my journey: the search for meaning, death, grieving, love, parenting, health, sex, marriage, relationships, and how we can each draw on our own powerful life experiences to grow and prosper.
More about body mind soul writer and speaker Ruth Ostrow
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