Have you always worked so hard and never got to where you want to be? Are you disappointed inyourself or in your relationships? Do you sometimes feel life isn’t not worth living? The problemsyou encounter are just too big… perhaps you have tried other therapies and found that nothinghelped and you didn’t get the lasting […]
There are many obstacles on the road to recovery and sometimes it requires us to step outside the medical parameters of lab tests and blood results to find a cure, as was the case of our client below. ‘I was sitting in the psychiatrist’s office to receive the official diagnosis. Finally the need to know […]
Touch is a basic nutrient for survival. It is so essential that when babies are deprived of it they die. Touch is the first sense that develops inside the womb (and it is probably the last one to go before we die). Your skin can sense touch at just 9 weeks of gestation. During the […]
Did you realise that the Purple House is one of Tasmania’s largest Health Centres? That we have 6 treatment rooms which are busy most days? That we stock a large range of interesting supplements, books and super foods? That you can walk in any day of the week and have a chat to one of […]
It’s the middle of winter in Tasmania but Pete and I are relaxing under the shade of an umbrella after a very hot day of sightseeing the other side of the world. It had been more than 30 years since I explored the streets of Amsterdam which is a city I used to feel very […]
What’s worse than having a cow right next to your office window? Not having a cow just outside your window while the Forth Primary School cross country is on. First I thought the cow was a figment of my imagination so engrossed was I in writing one of my newsletters. Then I realized it was […]
Ethel May Robertson 31/01/1919 Queensland – 30/01/2014 TasmaniaThe Purple House family lost its oldest member and I am struggling to adapt to the sudden passing of Gran. I am standing in my pantry when suddenly I burst into tears. At least it is safe to cry… I am all by myself at home so I […]
Now I know how Jonah must have felt after he was swallowed up by the whale and spat out three days later. I have just emerged from the bowels of my house where I spent three whole days sorting, cleaning and moving out rubbish. It all started with that dreadful storm we had last Wednesday. The […]
We are what we eat, that is easy to understand. However we only eat three meals per day whereas we think all day long. From the minute we wake up till we go to bed our heads are filled with thoughts. So we are not just what we eat, but more importantly our lives become […]
I am in the middle of a healing session with a teenage girl. The mum rang earlier and said that if something didn’t change soon she was going to strangle her daughter…they were always fighting, even to the point of punching each other and the way they were going there wouldn’t be any respect left on both sides. The […]