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Your short-cut to Natural Exhilaration
29 September 2016
By Di Westaway | Chief Adventure Chick | Wild Women On Top
We have been seduced by a first world culture which tells us Botox and Brazilians bring happiness and that the doctor will fix us when we get sick.
We’ve lost our way.
Why I scared myself silly doing a handstand on a knife-edge in Peru
23 September 2016
Di Westaway | Chief Adventure Chick | Wild Women On Top
Too much time on Facebook convinced me everybody was having more fun than me and I felt miserable. I was absorbed by mother guilt, a feeling of inadequacy, that I'm not good enough, not doing enough, not mothering enough.
Nature is my solution, but sometimes I need more.
Top tips to get your daily dose of exhiliration
22 September 2016
When it comes to living a life you love, our adventure loving Di Westaway is an expert.
Follow these 10 tips to get your daily dose of exhilaration.
"It was a ridiculous idea"
16 September 2016
Anne Olds | Wild Women On Top Member | Member of the Mt. Rinjani Wild Adventure team

I joined Wild Women just over 12 months ago, primarily to boost my fitness in the outdoors (sweaty, overcrowded gyms are just not my scene). Initially, my goal was to attend a couple of sessions per week, but before I knew it, I had been swept up in the Wild Women mentality. I was signed up to Coastrek and then…. I was on the summit of Rinjani.
Being moody is a sign of health, not sickness
9 September 2016
Di Westaway | Chief Adventure Chick | Wild Women On Top | Life Changing Adventures

There’s nothing quite like a partner or friend accusing you of “PMS-ing” when you’re grumpy. In fact, I reckon there’s a special store of rage reserved for anyone who dares comment on the state of your uterus, especially when they’re right.
Musings at Santiago Airport
2 September 2016
Kate Clissold | Wild Women On Top Member | Winner of 2015 Most Inspiring Award
If you have taken a trip with Di Westaway have you noticed she travels with her own mug?
WOW! Wild Women On Top turns 10
26 August 2016
Di Westaway | Chief Adventure Chick | Wild Women On Top | Life Changing Adventures
Sixteen years ago, I was tired, wrung out, miserable and staring forty in the face. Add co-dependence and a few other suburban housewife traumas and this became a mid wife crisis.
Love the life that loves you back
12 August 2016
By Lisa Marshall | Director Wild Women On Top
As a mum expecting my second child, I’ve finally realised that our children may never or rarely do what we say, but they will, if not always, copy what we do.
Di's (not naughty) Bliss Balls
5 August 2016
By Di Westaway | Chief Adventure Chick | CEO Wild Women On Top
The perfect, healthy afternoon snack to supercharge YOU post Trek-Training!
Tell us what you think.
This is what happens when 13 Wild Women go to Iceland
4 August 2016
By Wanda Nicholson & Samantha Page | Wild Women On Top Coach & Marketing Assitant
Words are wonderful things, but to capture the incredible women, breathtaking landscapes and hilarious antics of our Iceland adventure, I can only hope mine do justice.
Why teens off screen surprised everybody
15 July 2016
Di Westaway | Chief Adventure Chick | Wild Women On Top | Life Changing Adventures
Sitting in red, dusty, prickly grass by Standley Chasm tourist car park in the central Australian desert listening to a local Arrente woman’s cultural conversations was not what I signed up for...
Always carry snakes when you hike with kids
14 July 2016
Happy hiking with kids is where art meets science. Art because you need creative solutions to unexpected problems and science because if you don’t understand the chemistry set of their small bodies you can turn them off hiking for life.
An everyday guide to happiness
14 July 2016
Get ready to print out these ten steps to wellness and paste them on your fridge, your bathroom mirror, the dashboard in your car, save it to your desktop, your iPhone and iPad, your mac... AND DO THEM!
How to get your teens off screens
8 July 2016
Di Westaway | Chief Adventure Chick | Wild Women On Top
I know I was a moody teen but grumpy, miserable, withdrawn, pimply, aggressive, morose, smart phone addicted teens now seems the norm. I’m often at war with mine.
Let adventures unfold...
1 July 2016
By Lisa Marshall | Director of Wild Women On Top
Life's like that pile of books you have on your bedside table. The varied pile is made up of books you bought or borrowed or were given, that at some time spoke to you, or connected you with a thought or a lesson or a story you strongly needed to read at the time.
Mum, we'll be more than okay. Now GO!
24 June 2016
By Sammy Page | Marketing Assistant Wild Women On Top
It’s 5pm on a Friday afternoon yet the weekend seems miles away. To your left is a stack of papers, tasks and projects that demand your time for their completion and on the right is your phone, buzzing madly with messages from the kids, asking “what’s for dinner mum?”
Baby its cold outside
16 June 2016
Di Westaway | Chief Adventure Chick | Wild Women On Top
When the alarm kills delicious dozing on a dark winter’s morning or your lover tempts you with a glass of red as you snuggle up together on the couch, it takes an iron will to honour your commitment to a walk in the cold.
Why we LOVE Lord Howe
6 June 2016
The island is absolute paradise whether it be listening to the harmonic birdsong that accompanies your daily walks, refreshing in the crystal waters home to the most colorful assortment of fish or admiring the stunning view from the top of Mt Gower - it goes without saying... Lord Howe has officially stolen our hearts!
Magic in the Bungle Bungles
3 June 2016
By Lisa Marshall | Director Wild Women On Top
“Prior to the invention of cars and sealed roads, ancient paths were walked and experienced at a slower pace, allowing time for the landscape to unfold and reveal itself and, in doing so, permitting the walker time to think.
Revolutionising female adventure page by page...
20 May 2016
Our magazine took its first breath, so to speak, on a cycling trip to Cambodia. We cycled, with 19 other women, almost 400km around Cambodia whilst raising awareness of Human Trafficking. We fundraised $30000 to support grass roots projects on the ground making a difference to the life of young girls, women and their families.

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