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Christine Jackman

Christine Jackman is a journalist, communications consultant and author of Turning Down The Noise: The Quiet Power of Silence in a Busy World and Inside Kevin07.

She began her career as a journalist with The Courier-Mail in Brisbane, Australia, in 1993 and has worked in New York as a foreign correspondent for NewsCorp, in the Canberra press gallery and as the social issues writer for The Australian.

After several years as an award-winning staff writer for The Weekend Australian Magazine, Christine embraced freelance journalism, with features published in Good Weekend, Vogue and The Australian Women’s Weekly. She is also a communications consultant.

 
 

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When I wrote my book ‘Turning Down The Noise’, some people were worried I was advocating passivity or compliance. Quite the opposite. When we allow ourselves time for quiet reflection, our values and our moral compass tend to become more
For years I had a lifelong ambition to perform Adho Mukha Vrksasana. In short, I wanted to learn to do a handstand, a skill that eluded me through years of on-again, off-again yoga practice. I didn't want to be purified or achieve enlightenment; I ju