Michelle Schafer

When Childhood Trauma Plays Out on the World Stage.

Single Mothers—Why the Bad Rap?

Is it Love or Are you Trauma Bonded?

She Said No—& She F*cking Meant It.

When Pro-Life isn’t Pro-Living. {Allegorical Fiction}

Why We all Experience Love Differently.

I Love My American Friends—but There’s more to the World than the USA.

Dear Self-Proclaimed “Nice Guy.”

Stop Making Yourself Small to Appease the Male Ego.

Are Women Still Choosing the Bear?

The Many Faces of Grief: Home is Where the Heart is.

So You Want Them: Is it Lust, Limerence or Love?

A Heartfelt Hello: It Was Time to Move On.

When the Inner Work Yields Magic.

2025: A Year to Flip the Narrative.

If You Loved Me, You Would Let Me Go.

24 Lessons & Reflections from 2024.

Dear Emotionally Unregulated Man: How Angry are You?

Musings on the U.S. Election from Down Under.

Sis, He’s Not Your Man.

Having Kids to be Your Caretaker in Old Age is Unbelievably Selfish.

She Thinks She can Change Him—She Can’t. He Thinks She will Never Leave—She…

There are Far Worse Things than Being Alone.

When a Past Love Comes Knocking—Do You Answer the Door?

She is not the Home-Wrecker—an Uncomfortable Truth.

Is it Love? Attachment? Codependency? Or are you Scared to be Alone?

56, Fulfilled, Fortunate & Fabulously F*cking Free.

The Grief of Relationship Breakdowns & Breakups.

Why some Men are Choosing a Tree over a Woman.

How to Please a Woman—21 Tips that will Get You There.

Why it’s Never Okay to Comment on Another’s Body Size or Shape.

Women don’t “Belong” in the Kitchen & Men don’t “B…

Man vs. Bear: Why Some Women are Choosing the Bear.

He Loved the Way I Loved Him—& I’ll Never Love like that Again.

The Heaviness of Mother’s Day Grief.

Ageing out of a Bikini? Haters gonna Hate.

Please Stop Hurting & Killing Women.

Dear Lonely Heart: Here are some Wise Lessons from someone who has Learnt them All.

Dear Vulnerable Man, You are Hot as Hell.

I Am Not a Commodity & My Value Does Not Diminish with Age.

The Grief in Losing Yourself & How to Rediscover Who You Are.

How Internalised Misogyny Supports Weaponised Incompetence.

Dear Valentine.

What’s Better than Sex? Meaningful Sex.

Why Some Women are Choosing “Cats” Over Men.

Let this be Your Year to Slay: 2024 Year of the Dragon.

The Dangers of Faking it.

Stepping into 2024 with Courage, Curiosity & Compassion: 15 Reflections we all S…

Vale Fellow Elephant Journal Writer, Mentor & Friend.