About

S’up, I’m Karleigh.

This here blog is to entertain and intrigue you to think outside the box a little. I’m a survivor of sexual and domestic abuse, and I share this begrudgingly because those experiences don’t define me at all. But I know that many of you will relate and it’s important to know that the wisdom gained from those experiences have both negatively and positively impacted my future being and decision making process in the meantime.

I much prefer to be defined as a well travelled, loving and open minded woman who is 85 years young. Yes, I use blue rinses, wear cable knit cardigans, make jams and lemon curd… but to the untrained eye, I resemble a teen of the early 2000’s, complete with a butterfly trampstamp to really catfish people into believing I’m just a regular 40 year old, single mother/provider of two teenagers. I am so gratefully trapped into this able (for now) body and will make the most of my time here connecting and mostly in deep awe.

I used to blog eleven years ago (Sausage Mama was my name), but left an eleven year relationship so figured it was best to quit the blog/ shut my piehole in case what I thought to be true was actually wrong. I didn’t want to lead anyone astray. I didn’t want to share my experiences in fear of vulnerability and delusion hangovers.

However, it’s since been another eleven years and I am balls deep and very committed to being vulnerable and delusional and sharing the incredible experiences I have had ever since. There used to be A LOT of fear living here in my meat carcass and now I’ve transformed it into curiosity and open minded-ness and respect for the human experience.

Highlights include dabbling in travelling third world countries, fostering new borns to ten year olds, providing complex care to people with disabilities my own age, dabbling in palliative aged care and experiencing death of a loved one in my own arms. It’s be an absolute awe inspiring journey of the whole spectrum of the human bean. A spiritually awakening experience which has ignited deeper connection to my own intuition.

I have filled this past eleven years researching how to find oneself, ways to recover from trauma, how to learn to love again, date A LOT and find meaning when there doesn’t seem to be any and be a silly goose whenever possible.

By rewiring my brain and my body to experience different things instead of trauma, I take the sincerest, most satisfying form of revenge and that, dear friends, is to live and love well. That involves a helluva lot of cooking and eating, by the way and I can’t wait to share those recipes with you!

On this here blog, I’m interviewing the remarkable people I’ve met along my travels to show insight into the ways different people of different ages, abilities, cultures, genders and races see the world and manage their crosses to bear. Wherever they are on the Swings and Roundabouts.

I hope this blog finds you putting one foot in front of the other and curious and open minded about reflecting consciously on your life decisions. We are hear to learn and try to make the most informed decisions moving forward to reduce the amount of regret we carry to our death bed.

Here’s to living and loving well ❤

Karleigh Fox x