Rusel Last Integral Healing

08/08/2026

Good morning everyone. Have a great day

30/07/2026

Being in the zone is the way to be

25/06/2026

Finally an acupuncture elder speaks the truth. I’ve been saying this for years. You just have to look at the Chinese character
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14/06/2026

The theme for tonight’s dinner was definitely “make it up as you go along”. Rusel had brought home some beautiful green prawns from Kiama Fisheries. The Vegetable Hero had also brought home
a lovely bag of Okra from Farmers Market.
Okra is a restorative for the female metabolism in traditional Chinese medicine.
And we both fancied risotto? What a blend!!!! So I made it up as we went along: I roasted 2 red capsicum, 2 red chillies, 4 eschallots, 2 cloves of garlic, smoked paprika and cumin seeds. I tossed them in olive oil and popped them in the oven. When they were toasty, I blended them with good dash of stock to make a sauce.
I roasted some pumpkin and parsnip with oregano.
I sautéed leek, okra, broccoli and peas with garlic.
Then I made risotto and added the okra + greens back in. After blending the toasty red capsicum sauce I added it in a pan with the green prawns so they cooked in that toasty goodness.
Weird but it worked is tonight’s dinner hashtag!!!!
Never be afraid to experiment when adding extra veg to your meals.

13/06/2026

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09/06/2026

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15/05/2026

It is legal to seek asylum, Mr Taylor.

Dear Mr Taylor,

We haven’t met yet but I genuinely would welcome the opportunity to speak directly with you.

Last night your budget speech was probably directed towards someone like me: Sydney suburban renter, private school educated, university graduate, daughter of a small business owner. I have been incredibly grateful for all the opportunities I’ve had in my life due to the hard work and aspirations of my parents – aspirations you applaud.

Along with the deeply disturbing aspersions cast over our migrant communities, there was another deep barb headed my way, somewhat unexpectedly.

You said, “Those who criticise the law being enforced must explain why their sympathies lie with illegal overstayers instead of migrants and Australians who abide by the law.”

I should be used to this rhetoric by now; attacking lawyers and advocates, much like your Temporary Protection Visa policy, is nothing new. Your predecessors have referred to us as the salt and pepper on the table of people smugglers, as a drain to the taxpayer with all our tricky legal moves. And the real kicker: UnAustralian.

All this simply because I have dedicated my legal career to defending the rights of people seeking asylum. To standing with refugees. To finding safety for those who are stateless and displaced.

These are people you allege come from places that render it impossible for them to contribute wholly to our community, who could never align with “our values”. Yet these people are now nurses and creatives, business owners and soccer coaches. Many of them, in fact, are building the very houses we so desperately need to address the housing crisis you've so unfairly hung on their heads.

My sympathies lie with those whose lives have been destroyed by war, families ripped apart by conflict, who otherwise find themselves fleeing persecution for simply loving who they love.

I do the work that I do in service of our Australian values that we both claim to share. Values like fighting for the underdog and belief in a fair go for everyone.

To continue peddling this narrative that such people arriving are doing so en masse and illegally, that they are accessing welfare from the moment they arrive (I wish this was the case Mr Taylor, it’s been a long fought argument we have lost) is the true disservice to our Australian community. It breeds fear, disunity and mistrust. It’s a fallacy and it’s harmful.

It is legal to seek asylum, Mr Taylor.

My loyalties do indeed lie with the law, as they should.

And my sympathies remain firm and clear: my sympathies lie with our humanity.

Sarah Dale
RACS Centre Director & Principal Solicitor

08/05/2026

28/04/2026

Prunella vulgaris- Self Heal. An amazing herb and sharing knowledge of herbs to empower folks in caring for themselves is a privilege. After a bush walk over the weekend, Alison found a leech on her leg. A little while later, chatting with a burly bikie wearing rosemary for remembrance (another excellent medicinal herb) they discovered a mutual dislike of leeches and allergic reactions. Alison told her new bikie mate about prunella. He looked it up on his phone there and then and said he knew where to find some to plant at his home. Good result all round.
If you’d like to know how to use it, let me know in the comments.

05/04/2026