by Anne Skyvington | Jan 5, 2023 | Writing Topics
Yes, but not everyone has the same sense of humour to share, and some may even lack a sense of humour completely. I wrote this article on Medium some months ago, because I was stunned by the differences between our Aussie sense of humour and that of the Americans whom...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 1, 2023 | Writing Spirit
But not in the way I expected… I turned thirty and wanted to change. Engaging a therapist who utilized a post-Freudian type of psychoanalysis, seemed to me to ensure a cure for low self-esteem and depression. True, this pragmatic change did occur, over a decade or so,...
by Anne Skyvington | Dec 31, 2022 | Travel, Writing Topics
The must-do broadening experience of a lifetime I travelled rough when I was young. Now that I’m much older, I will only travel in style, accompanying my husband, if possible, when we have the chance. But I fully intend to travel until I can no longer do so....
by Anne Skyvington | Dec 31, 2022 | Psychology, Writing Topics
And suffered intense pain and a nervous breakdown as a result of my choices I was in my early thirties when I first started looking inward, which I conceived as a descent into the unconscious mind, as popularized by Sigmund Freud and his form of psychoanalysis. Later...
by Anne Skyvington | Dec 2, 2022 | Psychology, Writing Topics
I’ve only just started to realise that the cold can be therapeutic. It’s not for everyone, I know. But why don’t you try it out? Wim Hof, from the Netherlands, is called the “Ice Man”. He has been known to climb freezing mountains in his shorts and...
by Anne Skyvington | Nov 23, 2022 | Books & Movies, Writing Topics
A unique love story, the many sides of love, modern music and much more The Movie I loved the film Bohemian Rhapsody. Seated next to my partner just before the pandemic broke out, in the uber comfortable lounges at the Palace Central theater in Sydney, I pressed...
