Hello and welcome to my portion of the blogosphere, nestled happily here on the Cause: You're Beautiful site. It is an absolute privilege to be part of such a wonderfully intentioned project. I'm looking forward to sharing with you what will be a writer's journey over the next months but before all that I'd best introduce myself.

I am Australian and am before all else a father and husband. I have two beautiful daughters aged 1 and 4 and an equally beautiful wife whose age I will not disclose in the interests of domestic harmony. In the 45 minutes every day when our daughters are not demanding my attention I am a journalist, broadcaster and writer. I am co-editor of WellBeing magazine (a holistic living magazine). You can check out the magazine at www.wellbeing.com.au if you like, serendipitously the new version of the site should be going live on the same day that the You're Beautiful site launches. I also appear on-air on television and radio every week. Mostly I am reporting on latest advances in health and the science of living.

I aim to give people the information that they need to live fulfilling and meaningful lives. Amid all of the stuff about how our bodies and minds work I try to communicate that each person is supremely powerful in their own life and that your thoughts shape not only your own reality but also change the world around you. I passionately believe that love is the natural state of human existence and that for the most part we live unnaturally in the modern world. Living lovingly I believe will set all of us free.

On a more prosaic level, I love the art of writing. For as long as I can remember I have perceived myself as a writer. Many years ago I saw the film Snows of Kilimanjaro starring Gregory Peck and based on the Hemingway story. In the film the Greg Peck character declares that he wants to be a writer and is offered some sage advice from a mentor (speaking Hemingway's view obviously). “ God help you! God pity you! And good luck” , says the mentor. He says, “ Real writing is like a hunt, a hunt in which man pits his wits against the forces of ignorance and evil. It's a lifelong, lonely safari and the prey he seeks is a truth worth telling, a faith worth living by, something worth spilling his guts about that he's tracked down by himself.”

I remember at the time thinking, “ OK, the writer's journey is a tough one. Sounds like fun!” Oh, what glorious naiveté. That was two months short of twenty years ago and it is just now, after more than a decade working professionally as a writer that I am getting what Hemingway really meant.

What I will be writing about over the coming months are two writing projects that I have before me. One is a film script. I was chosen to be the writer for this project over four years ago. After two years and three drafts it looked as though the project had died a timely death. Now it has come back and there is the possibility of funding after some rewriting. What is interesting is how different I am now and how differently I feel about the project. I fought and wrestled with it first time around but this time I find myself relaxed and knowing that I am going to have to call on much more than my tiny mind to get this done well. More on that later.

The other project is a book that I have been commissioned to write. I have written and published three books before and ghost-written another. All of them have been gut-wrenching affairs largely because I did not really understand that I was only a partner in the writing process and that I had to surrender to some co-creative forces if it was to be truly creative and in Hemingway's terms, “ worth telling” . This book was shaping up as a struggle again until I realised that I really needed to co-create it with something with a bigger broader perspective than my myopic mind.

So that will be what I share. As I write this script and this book the process of letting go and accessing higher knowledge to make the writing worthwhile. I'd love to hear of your experiences, get your advice and share the highs and lows of the experience.

Until next month… love and light to you.

Terry