Life with Lee

I suffered abuse as a young girl, I was bullied throughout my school years and even within my own family. I had a father that drank heavily and was very absent through our upbringing. I witnessed and was subjected to domestic violence via a violent stepfather and spent time in DV (Domestic Violence) refugee centres, where I learned to make a paper mâché pig. 🐷

I changed schools 10 times moving between 3 different Australian states. I have known what it is like to go without, at times our next meal coming from a kind soul leaving money on our doorstep. But I also feel blessed to have been able to witness the strength and resilience of a mother who always did the best she could at the time with the resources she had available to her.

I have navigated my way through family substance addictions and depression and suffered the loss of family members and close friends to cancer. I have self medicated with alcohol and pot myself too. I have fallen to dark places and risen to fight another day. I have reached financial successes and then lost it all. I have had terrible self-body image issues and feelings of not being enough. I have people pleased and apologised for being ME. I have self-sabotaged, doubted myself, held back and played it small by dimming my own light to make those around me feel more comfortable. Then in 2019 as I was riding my Symba scooter (like a postie motorcycle) to work, a large 4WD crossed into my lane and BANG, I was suddenly on the road with my scooter on top of me skidding along the road. I remember seeing the traffic coming up behind me as my body was becoming one with the asphalt, thinking wow is this it! Is this how I am going to die? It wasn’t! Although it was a huge wake up call. The Universe was yelling at me to STOP! 🛑

It hasn’t been an easy transition by any means, I LOATH the cold and the wind and Perth seems to thrive on these weather elements. I have been greatly challenged with health issues, being back amongst the family dynamics and adjusting to life caring for my Mama and not having my own sense of job purpose. I hit my rock bottom and was forced to strip myself bare, implement healthier boundaries and rediscover who I truly was.

A long time ago, I remember my Mama saying I had amazing Bounce-back-ability strength. 💪 Something I realise has evolved through years of observing and silently learning from those around me, reading self-help books and attending self-help workshops. I had a major breakthough moment after attending a 5 day GIY (Greatness in You) seminar on the Gold Coast in 2012. Then I extended on this via a 7 week ART (Active, Reshape and Transform) Your Life workshop in 2017 in my home town of Darwin. Then I had the most empowering experience seeing Tony Robbins (my mega mentor) live and attending his 4 day “Unleash the Power Within” program in Sydney in September 2023 (Yes, yes it still took me many years to start to truly trust in me – for an intelligent woman – I was a bit slow at learning to love me).

I am now learning to love myself more and to be comfortable within my own skin – albeit +30kgs of extra cuddliness and regaining body strength after the accident and a double knee replacement in November 2023. I am also now choosing to reframe and refocus every aspect of my life and live with a gratitude attitude 🙏 and believe I am worthy of a life I have always dreamed of – an ongoing journey every day – something that I am sure will be ongoing until the day I leave this earth.

I have also always been a journaler – it’s how I can move on and how I have learnt to find my voice. As the big man Tony says, “Get in your head and you’re dead”. I love to help people and lately I have felt the pull to share my stories. I intend to do this by sharing what I get up to and the reflections that come from each experience that have made me the person I am today.

WHY?  Because, if there is just one person, I can touch and assist through sharing my experiences, lessons and tools I have learned along the way to never feel like I have my entire life, then I am willing to be vulnerable and put myself out there to do so. So, here I go, pushing my fears aside to create a world I truly desire. A life I am worthy of. I am going to put in the work, let it evolve organically and trust in the direction it takes me towards creating my dream life.

If you can relate to any of the above, then I would love for you to come along and join me on my journey towards finding my true authentic self and whatever curveballs of life that get thrown my way. ❤🌝🌈🌻

I live in my own little world, but it’s OK, they know me there. . .

1. The warmth of sunshine, the beach and feeling the sand between my toes make me think what heaven must be like.
2. Bike riding makes me feel alive and free and I smile on every ride and say hello to everyone I pass.
3. I could spend all day in a book shop or library, there is just something about the smell of books, especially new ones – My all-time favourite author is John Grisham.
4. I have a bottomless stomach when it comes to eating pork schnitzel – I just don’t seem to get full – I just love them but they gotta be thin just like the Austrians and Germans make them.
5. I tasted juice and soft drink when I was young and have never been a fan of flavoured drinks at all – Water, soda water and beer are my Jam! My Mama reckons she has never seen a kid so excited as I was when mineral water became a thing – Yay, I would squeal, I now have a bubbled water soft drink.
6. I have never worn matching earrings (except when I was bridesmaid for my best friend’s wedding 30 years ago) – I always wear a hoop earring in my left and 3 studs in my right.
7. I am not a cat or dog person – I am terribly allergic – I have a fish named Rocketman. My current fish is Rocketman 7.
8. I am a HUGE Elton John fan – In 1985 I slept at The Perth Entertainment Centre for 10 nights to get front row seats and I shook his hand through the song “Heartache all over the world” as he sung the line, And you can go from Tokyo to Rome.
9. I have an Inner Voice (I call her Ivy) that never shuts up – whilst she is quite the chatterbox, she can also be my voice of reason.
10. I love to relax with a “J” and play my favourite UB40 or Killers tunes or whichever artist I am currently obsessing over. But I get the munchies sooooo bad – so I am limiting this little indulgence at the moment whilst working on getting my body back to pre-accident form.
11. And I am recovering Perfectionist, although guilty of still being a little OCD!

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