young adults | Tash McGill, Writer

Culture & IdeasJanuary 17, 2017

How You Recognise The Life You’re Meant To Live.

By Tash McGill

Brave is not all of me, but it is a significant part. And when she said it, I recognised myself in a dozen different instances from age 4 to 19 years old. The brave girl who has learned to say what she thinks.
That’s how you know you’re recognising it – because your instinct is to lean into the spaces your True Self fills. And the more of your True Self you lean into, the more of your False Self you fall out of. You recognise your life sometimes before you know you have it; reaching effortlessly for the pieces that belong. The places and the people that fit just so into your puzzle pieces and before you can blink, you are living and fully alive.

Culture & Ideas, Health, Mind, SpiritualityNovember 1, 2016

Anticipation Sickness.

By Tash McGill

This combination of hope and anxiety can be crippling. And that’s anticipation sickness. Knowing the risk you take to hope at all, knowing what losing hope will feel like, how our way of seeing the world will be again challenged. It’s the fear and anxiety that overshadows joy. Hope is not a joyful feeling – hope is the gut-wrenching, white-knuckled sigh of the heartbroken, brave and vulnerable to look up, to say ‘Okay, let’s go again.’

Bodies, Culture & IdeasAugust 18, 2016

I Was A Dancer, Once.

By Tash McGill

By now, you should know this is both a true story about dance and a metaphor. I am a paradox of confidence and innocence, sometimes imagining more quickly than I can learn and sometimes learning more than I can practice. But there are a few things I know to be true.

Community, Culture & Ideas, Friendship, RelationshipsDecember 1, 2015

I Am Not Your Lorem Ipsum.

By Tash McGill

If we treat each other like placeholders, space fillers til something better comes along – we strip meaning from beauty and destroy our shared narratives. The difference between a seasonal transition in relationships and being Lorem Ipsum, is usually acknowledgement of the season change, thank you and goodbye.

Community, Friendship, RelationshipsNovember 30, 2015

You Love Fewer People Than You Think.

By Tash McGill

You love fewer people than you think you do. And, if you need permission to care less about some, in order to love others better – this is it. Feel free to hit delete. Caring is enough, if caring is what you have to offer. But caring cannot get in the way of Love. You’ve got permission to gather yourself back from the hundreds of little connections draining your batteries.

Culture & IdeasNovember 10, 2015

Great Expectations: The Second Half of the Game

By Tash McGill

The trouble with expectations is that they hide in plain sight until you trip on them. Freedom from prescription is essential. Examine every corner of your life for the hidden expectations (your own or others) that you are trying to meet. Find them before they trip you. As I think the next half of my life; I don’t want to spend a minute of my energy or spirit in meeting expectations or prescriptions. I want to live in such a way that I am fully alive and engaged with my greatest strengths. Devoting as much as I have into things that matter most for my legacy, not the legacy others would write or choose for me.

Church, Leadership, Youth WorkMay 29, 2015

It’s Not Me, It’s You.

By Tash McGill

But I think I know something you don’t. I’m The Generation. We’re all just in it together, one generation defined by being together and alive now.

Culture & Ideas, LeadershipMarch 2, 2015

No Such Thing As A Broken Man (Or Woman).

By Tash McGill

We relinquish our creative power, becoming obsessed with doing what is right. In our desire to be perfect we neglect our greatest purpose in the Universe. There is no hero in fairytale or real life that does not bear some shadow or flaw. We are unconvincing humans without them. Whatever good you can and will accomplish in your life, will occur in the company of your demons too. Your greatest task is to be your true self.

Culture & IdeasFebruary 25, 2015

Daughter….You Wear My Name (Courage).

By Tash McGill

She gives me strength, when I see her perservere. When I know my words lift her up, my spirit is also lifted. I want to say to her, ‘Daughter.. when you lift your eyes, my eyes are lifted to the horizon’. When you steady your heart against the tide, my heart is steadied.. because we share a name. That name is Courage. Sometimes I remind her, sometimes she reminds me. We are bonded in that, my girl and I.

Culture & Ideas, Health, Youth WorkFebruary 12, 2015

Embracing Our Sensuality Early.

By Tash McGill

Why has sex become so reductionist? Because I think we’ve lost the art of learning when it comes to our sexuality and I also think we’ve lost a connection with the senses that fuel our sensuality and imagination. It’s hard to have one without the other. It’s crucial to develop our sexual tastes and understanding of how we work in this same learning process and to encourage young people and young adults to understand their sexuality in healthy ways. I believe we can do this through embracing and engaging with the broader art of sensuality.