🕒 12 min read | By Kerrie De Palma ~
My Virtual Land Plot
Here it is finally, my microscopic piece of the world wide web, where I get to officially Welcome you to My First Blog Post.
I thought it would be appropriate for my first blog to be a get to know me. Then I thought, ‘shit’ where do I start? Those who know me would tell you I’m a pretty down to earth kind of girl, I have a fairly strong personality, and can also be quite reserved.
Most of the time I tend to sit back and take it all in, listen and observe, sometimes to the point that people think that I haven’t listened at all, although I actually have.
Growing up
I was always a tomboy at heart, I preferred the company of guys to girls. Which I think came from growing up with a lot of guys who lived around our area and we played a lot of sport through our whole school life.
I grew up in a fairly rough area, I learnt great life skills. Like when to open my mouth, when to shut it, when to look at someone and when not to. In writing my blog I will be careful to try and filter as what comes out sometimes can be quite to the point, crass, sarcastic, and humorous. However, it could be funnier to me than it is to you. I speak a hell of a lot of slang, I do swear, and use curse words ‘from time to time’ depending on who I’m around.
I Hardly Swear
After watching ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ (an Australian series on Netflix about a boy battling the demons that haunt his family life as he reaches adulthood), I realised I don’t hardly swear at all, not sure what I was worried about. I don’t particularly like the C word, don’t get me wrong I’m not straight laced by any means, it’s just a word that doesn’t sit well with me, and I know it’s just a word at the end of the day.
Apparently, I use the word bloody a lot. We welcomed a young man from overseas to work for us in my previous job, and he said to me at one of our functions, you use the word bloody a lot. Normally in the context of bloody hell which to us means nothing to do with blood or hell, but more an expression of annoyance, dismay or disgust. As we know words have different meanings throughout the world and can give a totally different context to the story, so I did explain to him that it is very much Aussie slang.
Tour of My Website
Hopefully, now that your reading my welcome blog post you’ve had a bit of a chance to have a look around my website. For which I can tell you I’ve absolutely loved the learning, tech and creativity of it all. SEO’s been a bit of a killjoy, but I’m slowly getting there ‘with my Welcome Blog’.
Tell me – you did tilt your head when you saw the gorgeous owl didn’t you?
And then you smiled… He’s so damn cute, I wish I could have one as a pet.
In primary school I wanted to be a vet as I love animals. But I found out how much schooling there was, and that I may have to put them to sleep and that wasn’t going to happen.
Later Years
In high school, I went through a stage where I thought I’d love to be a graphic designer, but I told myself I couldn’t draw, so that idea went out the window too and I decided to study more in the business space instead. If it was this day and age my career choice may have been a totally different story.
The whole AI – Artificial Intelligence puts a whole different spin on it now. On one hand, it’s exciting, but then on the other hand already I’m noticing so much with the emphasis on ‘Artificial.’ I’m not looking forward to the fact that we won’t even know ‘who’s who in the zoo’ what’s real and what’s not in years to come. In writing my blog I’m hoping to show the authentic side of me, not the artificial masked one, and hopefully with some emotional intelligence.
So now that I have my own business I get to play with tech and be creative every day, which completely lights me up, I love it. I remember a guy in high school used to sit next to me every time for our IT class, I asked him one day ‘Why do you always have to sit next to me? he said because your good at it, and I can ask you questions’. Mind you he used to go out at lunch time, smoke a joint and then spray jazz cologne to try and disguise the smell, so you can imagine what he smelt like sitting next to me each time.
A Little Thank You!
As part of my Welcome blog I wanted to take the opportunity to give a ‘shout out’ to Prue Peters who took my brand photos for my website, which at the time I hadn’t quite sorted my branding or what I really stood for, I had an idea, given I am my brand.
When I contacted Prue, I said in my message I am not photogenic at all, you could end up pushing shit uphill with me, as I don’t like having my photo taken. I said to her picture grumpy Smurf that’s me ‘I hate photos’. My Mum has a photo of me with my brother sitting on a brick letterbox, he’s there with his arms around me all smiley, and there’s me with my lips pout and face all screwed up. Prue messaged me back and basically said Kerrie, I love the Smurfs and you will absolutely be in safe hands with me, which relaxed my anxiety about having the photos done straight away.
Although from memory I got about four hours of sleep the night before I was having the photos done. Tossing, and turning as I wasn’t looking forward to getting them done to be honest. I’m not photogenic and wouldn’t have a clue if I have a good side, or which side that is. I had never been one to take selfies or play with a phone or camera to take my own pics, and never spent a lot of time on myself in front of the mirror but had always loved taking photos of everyone and everywhere else when on holidays to look back on.
So, the day came, I felt 100 years old, so tired, and I think the only things that saved me were Prue’s ability to make me feel completely relaxed during the photoshoot, to the point I actually enjoyed it and Ikhlas, who did my make-up. Thank you, ladies, you are both amazing creative artists in your own right.
Think Strong Independent Woman
One of the last pics Prue took is the home page of me with a coffee, hence the relaxed smile as it was all over, and I got to enjoy a great cup of coffee from Bel Cibo’s where we did the photo shoot, and trust me when I say their food is just as good.
Ironically the very first photo Prue took of me is the one of me sitting on the stool. A friend did say something quite funny about it, and I’m sure you’ve already thought it yourself, lol… and I’m not worried, at the end of the day it’s a relaxed shot of me sitting on a stool.
It reminds me of my early adult life when I went out with friends and played pool. One of the guys I used to work with would tell nearly every new person that came to work for us that he has known me since I was young when I used to play pool at one of the local pubs, eating steak and chips. Made me laugh every time, as I didn’t know him or start working with him until quite a few years later.
Anyway, it’s a casual relaxed photo. When I look at it, I see a woman who is sure of herself, fairly confident, you can take me as I am, and just went with it when Prue suggested sitting on the stool. Also yes, a woman who paid good money for ripped jeans, I can tell you they’re really nice soft stretch denim too and so comfy.
I did ask my Mum what she thinks when she looks at the photo, she said I see a Strong Independent Woman. And she doesn’t know what ‘OnlyFans’ is so we’re all good, I have to confess as I didn’t know either, until my daughter told me people make money on it, even selling feet pics. Anyway, I just thought I’d cover off the elephant in the room, and you can think whatever you like as you’re entitled to your own opinion. Just think ‘Strong Independent Woman’, not feet pics..
Three Paths
I won’t waffle on for too much longer with my welcome blog as I do want to add value to your life and experience when you are on my web page. Obviously, if you’ve had a look around I predominantly offer Coaching, which is mainly getting your mindset right, anything in life you want to gain results in, and I’ll teach you to be your own best coach. Given my years of study, life experience and expertise I offer three paths:
Many would say it’s too much and you should only concentrate on one aspect and do it well, but I also know our ‘Mess is often our Message’ and I’d get bored only doing one thing.
Like many I’ve been on a healing journey for a long time, during that journey I discovered various modalities and healing tools that I really enjoy. I also believe to be on path with our purpose, life journey or however you would like to refer to it, we need some balance in life. The scales are always shifting as we can’t give 100% to all, but I’ve found for myself that if I give at least a bit of effort and attention to all aspects, I feel really good, and my life is so much better for it.
All paths and roads that I offer lead to coaching, mentoring, guidance or healing with me, and learning a way to ‘Live Your Best Abundant Life’, so it’s what made sense to me as my offering to you.
And it’s what helped me and got me to where I am today. Also, I’m quite ambitious, driven and work really well under pressure. I think the only other career I would really love to do would be a travel and lifestyle blogger and do readings from anywhere around the world. Maybe one day we’ll look back at my first blog and see where it all started.
I have Officially Become an Author
I know right! It’s a really exciting year for me already, still the first quarter of 2024, my first book has been published and is about to hit the Amazon shelf. Probably already has by the time you read this blog. It’s a little surreal, a little scary, and extremely exciting. The typesetting is all done, the formats have been created and I received my first physical copy in the mail. I just didn’t open it straight away – crazy hey.
There’s so much that goes into writing a book, especially as a first timer, it’s an extremely exhausting, emotional, exhilarating and healing journey to write your own book. Apparently on a world scale there’s only a small percentage of aspiring authors who write and actually publish their book, so it’s a huge feat that I’m congratulating myself for. And I can be super proud to say that it’s all me, no ChatGPT or anything of the like helped me write it.
The title of my book is D I V I N I T Y ‘A Kundalini Awakening of That Average Girl Next Door’ and is the story of my Kundalini Awakening, which started well prior to me actually learning to be a Kundalini Yoga Teacher. If you’re a lover of spiritualism you’re going to absolutely love it! Just in case you read the word spiritualism and think religion, it’s not what my book’s about, it’s my spiritual story, not one that I planned to tell by any means, it just happened that way.
I can’t wait for you to read it… and get to know the real me.
Now that I’ve written my book I decided I’d like to blog as I’ve realised I really do enjoy writing now. Hopefully by me sharing my blog, stories, resources, tips and tricks it can help sustain you until I release my upcoming course I’m working on.
If you’ve managed to get to here ‘Thank You’ for taking the time to read ‘Welcome to My First Blog Post’, I don’t hide much these days, and when you get to read my book you’ll know exactly what I mean. Here’s to finally stepping out from the shadows.
Anyway, signing off… Sayonara, Arrivederci, have an Awesome week, until next time be great, and if you can’t be great, be great at it.
And don’t forget the most important thing ‘Do What You Love and Live Your Best, Abundant Life’ with immense courage.
Kerrie xx
