Kia ora, I'm Anthea Whitlock

Something I've learnt for sure is that developing self-awareness when it comes to our emotions opens life up in wonderful, unprecedented ways. Sadly, through no fault of our own, this isn't a skill we're all taught or equipped with growing up. Too often so, we have little appreciation of it's value nor even realise as adults that it's something we don't possess but could. It is learnable. I don't mean walking around bleeding heart on sleeve all the live long day, unless that's your thing. But many times, unfortunately what we picked up subconsciously instead was the false & frankly harmful belief that actually feeling and being intimate with ourselves on that level was something to be avoided at all costs. The sacrilege!

Now, I'm not typically one to get up on a soapbox about much, being pretty live and let live by nature. But society's glorification of the intellectual mind over and above all else has been to our great detriment. We are so much poorer for it. A more balanced focus on IQ/EQ is so overdue and would go such a long way toward remedying issues big & small we are experiencing today. Yes, I'm an avid proponent. Hence sharing my curiosity around such things here on this site.

To really know you is to love you, after all. Isn't this true?

As well as a doTERRA essential oil wellness advocate for over a decade, I'm mum to my tween son, an educational designer + writer by trade, and psychology student. We live in sunny Nelson Whakatu at the top of the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand because it's a stupendous place.

xAnthea