Don’t make mistakes

Do you know a teenager or young adult who needs some help?

 Are you sick and tired of people not understanding you?

Perhaps you find yourself thinking, “I just want life to be better” or, “I want to achieve something more”. You are not alone. Failure is how we learn. When you fail forward, you overcome fear. It is the fear itself that is holding you back – not the failure. People often don’t tell you about the struggles they went through or strategies they used on their path to success. Teenagers and young adults – this book will give you the solutions, tools and courage you need to discover your inner strength and BE THE DREAM! 

Teacher, Entrepreneur and Speaker Ruth Hibburt has studied and applied the secrets to success by failing forward. A positive-change maker in education, Ruth is an expert in building skills, confidence and positive relationships with students, parents and teachers, having taught over 3000 teenagers from a diverse range of social and learning needs.

Do you know a teenager or young adult who needs some help?

 Are you sick and tired of people not understanding you?

Perhaps you find yourself thinking, “I just want life to be better” or, “I want to achieve something more”. You are not alone. Failure is how we learn. When you fail forward, you overcome fear. It is the fear itself that is holding you back – not the failure. People often don’t tell you about the struggles they went through or strategies they used on their path to success. Teenagers and young adults – this book will give you the solutions, tools and courage you need to discover your inner strength and BE THE DREAM! 

Teacher, Entrepreneur and Speaker Ruth Hibburt has studied and applied the secrets to success by failing forward. A positive-change maker in education, Ruth is an expert in building skills, confidence and positive relationships with students, parents and teachers, having taught over 3000 teenagers from a diverse range of social and learning needs.

The Wye, Sep and Pat

Orchids of Nillumbik

Inherited Touch

There is a risk in telling another’s story especially when passed down through the family and there are many layers to a life that each person may only glimpse part of. It was with trepidation that Judith took on the task of peeling back the layers – smells, memories, photographs, family tales, official records – to trace the stories of her ordinary, imperfect female forebears.  Partly to give them voice, when women’s stories are often forgotten or ignored, but for a greater part she admired their resilience, their ability to maintain their balance when life’s challenges left them teetering on the brink of an emotional abyss.  She wanted to demonstrate how resilience can be nurtured within a spirit of community connectedness, through a sense of belonging.

As Judith gathered the women and their stories to her she realised she was being gathered in as much as she was gathering.  Her story weaving through the stories she was recording.  Facing her own emotional abyss, she experienced the nurturing of a community of women who understood    the journey.

There is a risk in telling another’s story especially when passed down through the family and there are many layers to a life that each person may only glimpse part of. It was with trepidation that Judith took on the task of peeling back the layers – smells, memories, photographs, family tales, official records – to trace the stories of her ordinary, imperfect female forebears.  Partly to give them voice, when women’s stories are often forgotten or ignored, but for a greater part she admired their resilience, their ability to maintain their balance when life’s challenges left them teetering on the brink of an emotional abyss.  She wanted to demonstrate how resilience can be nurtured within a spirit of community connectedness, through a sense of belonging.

As Judith gathered the women and their stories to her she realised she was being gathered in as much as she was gathering.  Her story weaving through the stories she was recording.  Facing her own emotional abyss, she experienced the nurturing of a community of women who understood    the journey.

The tales of Disco chook

One Hundred Years of Euroa and District Cricket

The village and the snake hole

The Turbulent Antal Years