by Alice MacKinnon | Jun 25, 2025 | Life
We’ve been sold the story that wellbeing is something you buy. Yoga memberships, green juices, retreats in Bali. But here’s the truth: real wellbeing is an inside job — and it’s mostly free. I know this not just as a coach and writer, but as a woman who once rode the... 
by Alice MacKinnon | May 24, 2022 | Life
The morning air is cool and soft. A cornflower blue sky arcs overhead with no sign of where it begins or ends. Our feet, some bare upon the grass, some clad in comfortable shoes, seek the feel of the earth beneath our soles. The lake, dotted with water lily pads and... 
by Alice MacKinnon | May 24, 2022 | Life
Black plastic billows in the breeze, a hungry ghost ravelling string fingers around mangrove twigs and tendrils that reach, beseechingly, across the water. Two weeks ago this river was a raging torrent sweeping all before it through the suburbs. Today she is serene... 
by Alice MacKinnon | May 24, 2022 | Life
I want to talk about healing. *** My pocket-sized vegie garden is flourishing. In late winter I made my first harvest and shades of green filled my nostrils – a handful of sweet lettuce leaves, spicy coriander and buttery baby spinach – just enough for a delicious... 
by Alice MacKinnon | May 24, 2022 | Life
I decisively jumped the fence at the age of 57. After a life of heterosexuality, in mid-2020 during the first round of the COVID pandemic, I met a transgender man and we fell into each other’s arms, beds and lives in a blistering love affair that took me to the heart...
