Mind and Matter – Sandy Newbigging by Bernardo Moya
Sandy C Newbigging is the creator and award-winning trainer of Mind Calm Meditation and the Mind Detox Method, the author of more then ten best-selling books and numerous television shows. Here, he tells Bernardo Moya how he became an international meditation coach, and how the technique changed his life It’s always refreshing to meet […]
What does it take to be a… pantomime actor? by Matthew Kelly
Alongside Hayley Mills and his son, Matthew Rixon, Matthew Kelly is appearing in Cinderella at Richmond Theatre, as one half of the ugly sisters. It could only be pantomime time! How did you first get involved in pantomime, and what is it you enjoy about it? I love the colour and spectacle of it. I […]
Rocky Road – Stevie Nicks: A Vocal Success
Stephanie ‘Stevie’ Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1948. However during her upbringing Nicks was a child of the road, as her consumer products executive father constantly moved the family to accommodate his career. Never able to settle and make friends for an extended period of time, Nicks’ mother became overly wary of new […]
Rocky Road – Louisa May Alcott: Written for the Future
Born and raised in the early 1800s in American New England, Louisa May Alcott spent her childhood in what some might call a confused household. Her father belonged to a sect of transcendentalists who had harsh and prescriptive views of what child rearing should look like. Alcott’s father spent years uprooting the family and struggling […]
Jane Fonda: Miss fortunate
For a woman with such a well-known and celebrated family name, Jane Seymour Fonda never walked an easy path to success. Born to actor Henry Fonda in 1937, Jane Fonda, curiously, was a distant relation to Jane Seymour, a wife to Henry VIII. The first of many hardships in Fonda’s life arrived when she was […]
Li Ka-Shing: Learning from a long shot
Life without today’s modern conveniences was difficult enough for anyone at the beginning of the twentieth century, let alone a not-yet-teenaged boy charged with taking care of his family after the premature death of his father. Born in China in 1928, Li Ka-shing faced enough hardships to last a lifetime by the time he was […]
The Story Of The Wounded Child by Evelyn Lym
The “wounded child” is an archetype which contains damaged or negative emotional patterns of our youth. No one tells the story of the wounded child better than Michael Jackson. In recent weeks, his childhood story has gained a revival of interest, as people search online to understand more about the man behind the cosmetic […]
The March of a Dreamer: You’ll Never Be Free of Fear by Tess Marshall
I really don’t remember being a fearful kid. I grew up on a farm and had a working childhood. As one of 10 children, I was too busy trying to survive, get my share or get noticed. Nothing really scared me. I learned how to be tough. It wasn’t until I was in my late […]
The Story Of The Wounded Child by Evelyn Lym
The “wounded child” is an archetype which contains damaged or negative emotional patterns of our youth. No one tells the story of the wounded child better than Michael Jackson. In recent weeks, his childhood story has gained a revival of interest, as people search online to understand more about the man behind the […]