In this busy, often stressful time of year which is loaded with expectations (of ourselves by ourselves, of others and by others) I can’t think of a better time to stop and say, “I am enough”. And really believe it to be true. Our truest friends love us for being us, not because we buy
Good Living
On Christmas and presents
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting a genuinely lovely journalist from the NZ Herald to talk about how we do Christmas here in the Vreede family. He himself is beginning his own journey of low-waste living and asked me some very pertinent questions such as, “How do you reconcile your
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Good News
A new year and a new perspective
Happy New Year everyone! It’s been a long time since I wrote on my blog, and I’ve really missed writing. It’s the one part of Mrs Goodness that really fulfills me, even though it can hurt my brain a bit these days (I seem to have lost some parts of my brain since becoming a
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Good Thoughts
The art of finding balance
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you may recall my New Year’s resolution to schedule active relaxation into my life, and my plan to practice daily yoga for my physical and mental well being. Well, it’s now Labour weekend, I haven’t done any yoga since sometime in February, and I have just returned
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Good Health
My obsession with food
Last week I learned a new word. I had never come across it before and yet it popped up twice in two days, in two completely different pieces of writing. My New Roots is a healthy food & lifestyle blog I recently discovered and have started to follow. In her latest post the author, Sarah,
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Good Thoughts
Responsible consumerism
It’s an unfortunate fact of life for all creatures great and small, that there are ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’. And although there are some weeks when I don’t know where our next mortgage payment is coming from, I’m pretty sure that as far as 99% of the world’s population is concerned, I’m a ‘have’. Why? Because
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Good Thoughts
On doing what you can and feeling good about it
A few weekends ago I took the first step towards realising my New Year’s resolution for 2017 by attending a beginners’ workshop in Ashtanga yoga. I had such an amazing time, and when I came home on Sunday afternoon I was fully resolved to practise my new moves every day. I envisaged a year of physical
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Archive
On giving myself a break
Hmm, the trouble with relaxing is it makes you realise how tired you are… and then it’s very difficult not to relax more! Last weekend I went on a little family holiday to Waiheke Island. It was my first real holiday in over 2 years! Consequently, I now realise it was far too short because
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Archive
Some thoughts on our attitude towards diet
When I was a teacher of design, I did a project with my senior students that encouraged them to learn a little bit about design history. The two significant design eras I focussed on were Modernism and Post-modernism because I just loved to teach them all about the social, political, technological, and ideological changes that