Some of Gaia’s most recent accolades include the World Travel Awards 2019 , World’s Leading Retreat (Global Winner); World Luxury Restaurant Awards 2019, Luxury Spa Restaurant (Global Winner); World Spa Awards 2019, World’s Best Day Spa (Global Winner); World Luxury Hotel Awards 2019, Luxury Boutique Retreat (Continent Winner); World Luxury Spa Awards 2019, Best Luxury Spa Retreat (Continent Winner) and Best Luxury Wellness Spa (Country Winner). Gaia’s unique wellness & healing ethos has truly set it apart by offering guests total flexibility to personally tailor their retreat experience. Gaia’s award-winning Day Spa is “home” to some of Australia’s best healers and therapists, with leading wellness consultants, yoga instructors and fitness coaches available to meet the guests every need. Add to this Gaia’s highly acclaimed world class spa cuisine, which has received numerous awards, including, most recently, the 2019 World Luxury Restaurant Award for Best Health & Wellness Cuisine (Global Winner). Olivia was also honored with the Wellness Pioneer Award 2019 during the World Spa Awards gala event at the landmark Armani Hotel Dubai, receiving the top accolade for her outstanding contribution to the wellness industry. My fondest wishes in those days were that my father would return home and that I could bottle that musty scent of my horse laced with the worn leather of the saddle. We all know we are going to die... I think we spend our lives denying it. It's extremely personal. I find it hard to put into words, I feel we are all part of one thing, I have had experiences with spirits or spirit life and felt the spirit world and have heard things, that I believe there is something that happens.' Professionally, it was the chance of a lifetime for my father, and personally, it was an opportunity for my parents to create a new chapter in their life together. They were fighting a lot before we moved and thought a change of scenery could provide a fresh start. Their children are Jett, Ella Bleu, 22, and Benjamin, 11. Jett sadly passed away in 2019 aged 16 - he suffered a seizure after hitting his head on a bathtub.

Olivia also shared her thoughts on death and faith, saying she believed there was something out there after you die. My clever mum made the move and kept us financially sound. She even transformed the bottom half of the house into an apartment, which she rented out to help pay the mortgage and give us some additional funds. I never knew Mum was so good with math. Thanks, Grandpa! I admit to buying this book because I've always been a fan of Olivia Newton-John. Memoirs don't usually appeal to me, as I think most of them as being fictional accounts of someone's life anyway (who can remember such things of decades past? And most of it never reveals the nitty gritty reality of the person.) Yet, I wanted to read about her journey with cancer. Mornings when my father was busy meant Shahan and I could ride to our hearts’ content, followed by picnics with her sisters and then swimming with the horses at the beach and in the lagoon. Tired, but happy, I would come home and tell my father that I didn’t want to take a shower that night.In addition to her music and screen successes, Olivia is perhaps best known for her strength, courage, and grace. After her own personal journeys with cancer, she has thrived and become an inspiration for millions around the world. A tireless advocate for countless charities, her true passion is as the founding champion of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia. Olivia has always radiated joy, hope, and compassion—determined to be a force for good in the world. In the book, Olivia said she was keen to set the record straight about whether or not she ever dated John. 'On the Grease set, he would tell me. "Liv, it's every guy's dream to have you as his girlfriend" Olivia Newton-John rose to fame in the United States as the character of Sandy in the movie Grease. She also had a bunch of hit songs and records afterwards. Olivia's autobiography does mention her rise to fame although I felt as if there wasn't enough time spent on her rise to fame. She does write about her time with Grease and other films as well as recording her songs throughout the book. I felt the movies and songs were written about well.

My music is going well; I’m not interested in making another movie….and I’m twenty-eight and too old for Sandy. I can’t do an American accent!” It got worse. Eventually, Dad was asked to leave his post at the college because the administration was strict about needing a married man at the helm. He was no longer traditionally “married with children.” Our home looked perfect from the outside, but inside was another story. When the newness of moving to another country turned into sameness, my parents’ marriage began to deteriorate again. I knew because Mum and Dad took separate holidays, although they tried hard not to make an issue of it.

Carr respectfully stays silent as the woman before him continues to try to convince him, (and probably herself), that she should not do take on this role. He holds his tongue, waiting for her to pause, and when she finally does, he tells her, When I was a little girl, Dad would sing out loudly in church, but I was embarrassed by it because I didn’t want to be noticed. He had a wonderful sense of humor and would tease me by pretending to be a really old man, crinkling his fingers and speaking in a creaky voice. I laughed and laughed. My uncle Gustav, who sadly died recently at age ninety-six, listened to his father, who advised him to become a doctor because “you won’t have to kill people, and you’re less likely to be killed.”