Blue Wolf Reviews

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  • The Places Where There Are Spaces

    The Places Where There Are Spaces

    Cultivating a Life of Creative Possibilities 

    The art of ‘Living in the Moment’ is a much discussed topic along with ‘Mindfulness’, both of which when discovered, make wonderfully easy changes in the way you view the world.

    Lisa Hopkins shares many of her reflective moments as she has journeyed on her pathway of performer and life coach in a thoughtfully created book The Places Where There Are Spaces, which will become an instant favourite will help you discover a more positive way forward.

    Shared lessons, moments of joy and practical experiences rub comfortably together, as you use this book to set out on a journey of exploring not only who you are, but life itself.

    Lisa Hopkins says in her life as a dancer and performer, there were always moments in between, a space between the leaping and landing that begged to be investigated. And so it is with life; there are always those intriguing spaces which bear further investigation.

    There are fifty-nine small chapters, each one filled with learned wisdom, concluding with a page for jotting down thoughts and reflections. Not meant to be read from cover to cover, but can be if you are a very methodical person, you can simply select a heading that fits the moment under inspection.

    How can such intriguing titles as The Many Shades of You, the very prosaic The Power of Soup or Sorting Through Your Garbage or even Life is a Wide-Open Stage fail to tease you into further investigation?

    The Places Where There Are Spaces is an absolute gem and will be a ‘go to’ to help through those tough, frustrating and infuriating times we all face as we travel down life’s very winding pathway.

  • The Pink Bubble: Become Who You Are 

    The Pink Bubble: Become Who You Are 

    In a split second of time Anton’s life as an everyday teenager was over, changed forever, the imprint of an horrific accident, for which he was responsible, to be with him always in various levels of emotion. Deep distress to acceptance the many shades of life painted from youth to middle years.

    In Brett Coles debut novel, The Pink Bubble he takes the story of a tragedy, one of which he was involved in and uses his life experiences, combined with the fictitious Anton on his journey or rather their journey of acceptance.

    Anton’s story through depression to the ‘playing fields’ of drugs in Asia, the constant running from rather than facing his trauma sets out a story that not all that uncommon and therefore resonates deeply. His father always there to rescue him from his often times perilous journey.

    His journey is that of every-man or any-man, and one which Cole has used to great effect as Anton struggles to find some sort of meaning to his life. After a disastrous time spent in Thailand he returns to Perth to meet Paige, have a beautiful daughter Rose, only to separate sometime later which once again places him on yet another downward spiral.

    Cole hopes that by writing this story he is able to reach out to those who have trodden a similar pathway and shows that with the right help and support, which has to be accepted, there can be a positive outcome.

    Part biography, part storytelling, Brett Cole took twenty years to complete the story which was written in segments over that period of time; part cathartic, part acceptance and part fulfilling a desire to write a book – something he had always desired.