Connection Kitchen

22/11/2025

Life as Art

These last few weeks I have been enjoying a giant charge of creativity, reminding myself that I am an artist after all.
The truth is we are all artists, initiating, designing, developing and coloring our lives as wonderful canvases!
I have found that I am constantly creating in the kitchen, in the garden, in the orchestras, on stage, with my instruments and tools, in the training rooms and with my businesses.
As an artist you can understand that there are learning stages including many mistakes a long the way.
Flexibility, acceptance and adaptability allow the most progress. When we get stuck, its usually due to an unwillingness to transform. We are either stubborn or dont believe it is possible.
Allow play and creativity to be your leaders, let your canvas glitter with colorful experiences and skills.
Be your own artist and design your life with passion and tenderness.
What are you all creating right now?
What is the experience you are creating for yourself?

05/11/2025

This is my happy place, a warm kitchen bubbling with excitement and creativity. Just touching base with you all as I have been busy working and learning from &co hub for three weeks, taking a deep dive into community spaces and meeting the most amazing people. This of course has lead to so much creativity and I remind you all that our kitchens are the heart of creating yourselves literally from the inside out. Building strong cells with nutrition, understanding yourselves under pressure, adding to your skill sets and mindfulness. Amongst other creations, today my kitchen will become a lantern creating station for a special birthday. What wonderful delicious things are you all creating?

28/10/2025

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19/08/2025

Find your communities, connect with the broader world and find your space. It is waiting for you to share your gifts. A reminder that we are all part of this greater universe that needs your skills and magic. Where will you start?

27/07/2025

24/05/2025

See you

In times of life challenges, adversity and conflict, one of the greatest strengths we have is the ability to slow down and see the self.

Before you allow your thoughts to race away with how big this issue is
Before you get into problem solving mode
Before you see all of the consequences of this issue
Before you catastrophize and see the bleak future ahead (supposedly)
Before you go into fear and suspect how this looks to others
Before you shame yourself
Before you shrink with the 'what will they think of me'
Before you believe that their opinion of you is correct
Before you jump to protect and defend
Before you aim to be externally validated
Before you put others first
Before you run to obtain more information and have everything under control

Its ok to see yourself, its ok to slow down and sit here in the mess for a few seconds, its ok to love you even in this moment, before you run to your next thing.
You've been here before, wonderful, human you
You so deserve this love, everything will work out
Slow down and
See you first 🥰😍🌞🌷

11/04/2025

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU?

What if I told you today that your way of thinking about yourself has been miniscule compared to the real scale of interconnectedness. What if you were to find out that you were so much more than the ordinary problems you are facing? That you are allowing these obstacles to make you feel small. How would these problems fit in significance to you being connected to a multi-complex system of processes that is nature, life, energy, relationships, varying realities and deep integrated parts?

You are every bit the miracle that you were at birth, however, in the many years that you have been experiencing, you are now also everything you perceive; the songs that move you; the food that nourishes you; those plants that decorate you; those poems that touch you; the art that speaks to you; the music that vibrates within you; the happiness that projects out of you; the friendships that support you; the words that you share; the ugliness that you see in others; the wants and desires that you dream about; the memories that you store; the love that you demonstrate; the beliefs and values that drive you moment to moment; the fragility of your humanness; your reactions and emotions.

Imagine what a journey it would be to really travel inward and discover the most delicate parts of you and see yourself in this moment in time. The magnificence that holds you and the part you play in this complex love story of you and the spaces between everything else.

Opening the narrow focus that holds you back in these moments, allows you to see your true nature and look at self from these eyes.

01/04/2025

Holding space for teens

Parents i know you want to do a good job, you want the best for them and you want them to possess all the skills required today. It will ease your anxiety.

One of the biggest takes from working with teens though has been that all this comes in life.

Some of the biggest lessons and most hurtful times in life shapes us, more than what parents can or dont provide.

Whilst you have them with you offer the space to grow, to fail, to win and make mistakes. When they feel big emotions, when they dont want to try be the solid ground without taking the emotions for them. This is how real resilience is built.

Mental health after all is the ability to navigate the ups and downs even in discomfort.

31/03/2025

So lovely to have participated in the Latino women’s empowerment conference in Melbourne this week. Met such amazing ladies from different industries making a difference and being leaders in their field. Inspiring and supporting each other 🥰

31/01/2025

Connection Kitchen

Now that the holidays have passed, many of you are preparing to send the kids off to school and commence the year with a fresh outlook, project or work. One of the best indicators for success in any taken path is knowing your purpose and reaching out to those with the ability to guide you on your journey. Coaches aim to maintain your intentions, values and outcomes in focus as you move towards your goals. We guide you through the enquiry and curiosity required to understand yourself and support the processes through which change becomes possible.
Contact and follow for one on one sessions, PD workshops, parent/teen sessions, resources and podcasts.
Sending you great energy
Jessica Alvarez
Image/literature by: Charlie Mackesy:The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse

18/10/2024

You have a right to Shine

As the year slowly sets into finals, graduations and exams. There are loads of endings and goodbyes taking place.

Our teens are experiencing an array of emotions, speeding up of time, big events and high expectations. Exactly what is our role as parents and mentors during this time?

I have found that what is most impactful during this season, is the ability to regulate ourselves. This way, when our young adults need us to support them during exams and assessments, we are emotionally available.

When they need us to transport them to important events and their preparations, we are emotionally available.

When they need a kind word, validation and affirmations during the hardest times, we are also available.

In all of these such actions of love, our teens can know we are with them 100% championing them as they venture through the transformations of young adulthood.

Being there to witness them, seeing it through and trusting all of the love and support given has created strong foundations in them.

Demonstrating how present we are with them, showing them it is safe to enjoy and shine their light on the world.

Needless to say doubting them, scaring them into action, creating a scary false future image, catastrophising, labelling them and using abuse will not build our teens. It will only leave them feeling alone.

Parents, please give our teens every chance to demonstrate their skills at their pace, trust they will do what is needed at their best capacity and be witness to all of their efforts.

As long as there is a sun, we all have a right to stand proud and shine!

24/04/2024

Relationships - Ethos

"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labour: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken".

Love this verse as it reminds us that we are not designed to do life alone, there is nothing about us that replaces the need for other human beings.
Your dreams and goals are fulfilled with others
Your threads to others are the connection to oneness.
Asking yourself what can I bring to others?
How are they a truer them in my presence?
How do they make me a true and better version of myself?
How are your relationships going?