Collectively Aligned

We're talking about an issue that's increasingly affecting families everywhere: screen time. With the average Australian child spending over two hours a day on screens, and teenagers pushing three to four hours, it's clear that our digital habits are impacting our lives significantly​. Join Anne and Dean as they discuss into the concept of a digital detox, exploring the importance and benefits of reducing screen time for families.

Have you set any goals or chosen a word to define your new year? In this episode Dean and Anne discuss their family tradition of celebrating personal and collective words for the year, and how it shapes their family's journey.

Oh no the kids are asking us one of 'those questions'! RUN. In this episode, Dean and Anne share how they approach the difficult yet important conversations.

'Reason, Season and a Lifetime' is a poem by Brian A. “Drew” Chalker. In this episode, Anne and Dean reflect on this poem and talk about friendships in their lives.

Coming up with meal ideas can be challenging. In this episode, Dean and Anne share the challenge they set themselves to come up with new meal ideas, and now their kids love participating.

Dean is a Type 1 insulin-dependent diabetic. In today's episode, Dean and Anne talk about Dean's journey, how he became a diabetic at the age of 8 and the experiences and events that have occurred in his life.

We undertake daily and weekly practices to ground ourselves because we see the benefits in both our health and mindset. In this episode, we are sharing what grounding is, why we do it and the practices we undertake.

After discovering Anne had endometriosis, when we tried for children, we ended up going through IVF. In this episode, we share our journey from discovering Anne had endometriosis, going through IVF and subsequent pregnancies.

In 2022, we lost Anne’s brother John. After his 8 year battle with cancer, he was a true fighter right up til the end. In this episode, we chat about John’s journey, the rush back to say good bye, and what has transpired since.

Life’s journey has brought us many experiences, but one of the key elements that has always remained strong is our intuition. In this episode, we are going to talk about what our intuition means to us and how it plays its role in our life.

We have always made a conscious decision to have date nights on a regular basis. Our dates nights do not always involve going ‘out’. In this episode we chat about why we make the conscious effort to have date nights and how we bring them to life.

Having always lived in Victoria, what made us do the big seascape change? In this episode, we talk about what led us to finally take the plunge not only to move but to move interstate and go country.

Why us and why Collectively Aligned? In this episode, we are going to talk about our journey that brought us to this moment, and the name Collectively Aligned. Along, with our journey of us as husband and wife.