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Movie Review: No Other Choice
The movie No Other Choice is a unique, funny look at how far you'd go to get a job. When we meet Man-soo (Lee) he's living in his old family home, a home he's save up to buy. A loving family man he lives there with his wife, son, daughter and two...
Movie Review: My Brother’s Band
My Brother's Band movie starts and ends with music. In between is a tender and funny story about separated brothers My Brother's Band We first meet conductor Thibaut (Benjamin Lavernhe) in his happy place in front of his highly acclaimed orchestra. Caught up in the...
11 Tips of the Perth Festival 2025, Films
The 2025 Perth Festival film season has kicked off, here are my tips for this year. Somerville Theatre This year the festival brings 23 films from 16 countries, here are 11 tips to get the most out of it. Start now. The festival runs from February 7 to March 3 however...
Movie Review: Christmas Karma
The movie Christmas Karma takes the classic tale of A Christmas Carol and dips it in Bollywood musical magic Christmas Karma On the eve of Christmas Day Londoners are getting ready to party. Everyone's in high spirits. Well, everyone except Mr. Sood (Kunal Nayyar), a...
Welcome from the Editor
Welcome to The Ponder Room. What started way back in 2011 as a small blog about things to ponder while on the toilet, quickly exploded across 65 countries
in just six months. As a result, PR companies came asking us to review their movies, events and restaurants etc.
‘As a day well spent brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death’ Leonardo da Vinci.
As time went on I reconsidered our aim. What started as a bit of fun had morphed into something else. The Ponder Room wasn’t and still isn’t about making money. Instead I realized a key reason for writing every week was to show my elderly parents what was happening in Perth. They looked forward to every post, and we’d talk about it on the weekend. More recently the feedback has shown me it’s not just about my own parents, loneliness and feelings of isolation are increasing exponentially. With this in mid our aim has broadened to help people get the most out of life, particularly anyone who feels alone or isolated in the community. Over the years The Ponder Room family has grown to include:
A YouTube channel called The Ponder Room TV, which presents short videos about what’s happening in Perth, the most isolated capital city in the world.
A range of books, which can be found here on Amazon both as ebooks or hardcopy. See more under the My Books tab.
For a range of gift ideas at The Ponder Room store
We hope you enjoy The Ponder Room family offerings, that they brighten your day and help you get the most out of your life.
The Editor
All posts are written by multi-award winning author and consumer psychology consultant Glennys Marsdon B. Psych. To find out about her go to the About page or Glennys Marsdon
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Contact Us
If you’re interested in having your event featured on The Ponder Room or The Ponder Room TV, contact us via the contact us page.
MY BOOKS
Over the past 20 years I’ve written a number of books, many of which use my psychology background and focus on mental health issues such as getting more Me Time, working through Grief, help with Innercity Living/Downsizing and how to make an Impact, to name a few.
Me Time: Over 100 strategies and tricks for gaining guilt-free Me Time
- ‘Marsdon takes everyday activities such as going to the bathroom or driving in your car and finds a way to turn them into ‘me time’. Start yours by reading more than 100 strategies for gaining guilt-free time just for you.’ Review: by WritingWA in The West AustralianWinner of People’s Choice Award for Most Entertaining Paper at the Australian Market Research Society (WA) State Conference 2013
We all want more Me Time, but how do we get it … and how do we enjoy it … guilt free? Australian social researcher Glennys Marsdon, from The Customers’ Voice, spent 9 months chatting to Australians about their strategies for gaining Me Time. During the research she uncovered a key barrier to Me Time … guilt. She realised it wasn’t enough to just outline some real-life strategies, she needed to explore ways to reduce the guilt. Designed as a gift book Me Time contains 100 real-life strategies and tips, quotes, medical facts, plus photos. Part proceeds go to Health research.
eBook Me Time, Guilt Free (does not include the photographs in the hard copy.
Available on Amazon.com.au or Amazon.com Hard copy gift book with photos. Buy direct and save. Contact Glennys for $15 (AUS) + post ($5 for Australia; $10 for International post). Go to contact tab.
Impact: 45 Tips To Help You Get Involved and Make A Difference
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This book if for anyone wanting to make a difference. Anyone who wants to help improve life for themselves, their family or the community. It outlines 45 easy ways to get involved and make a difference.
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Available from Amazon.com.au and Amazon.com
50 Ways To Grieve Your Lover
- ‘An amazing array of emotions resulted reading it, happiness, sadness and hope’
‘My sincere wish is that you don’t ever need a book like this, but if you do, I hope that the lessons I’ve learnt will help you find new ways to smile again and gain back control.’ Glennys Marsdon
The book is written as a series of 50 light-hearted emails to a friend. It contains: 100 Tips; 85 quotes; cartoon images from Michael Collins dec. Glennys wrote the book a few years ago after the sudden passing of her partner Michael, and finding few books about the period after the funeral, and none with any element of humour. She was fortunate enough to have a degree in psychology behind me, however she also spent months devouring any information she could get that would tell me what to expect, and whether she was ‘normal’ !? A year later a very good friend asked for advice, so she fired off an email titled ’10 things I’ve learnt so far’. After a coffee and several chocolate biscuits the list grew to 50 things, and she felt compelled to write the book.
Copies have also been purchased by: Carers Australian (WA); Solaris Cancer Support; New Zealand Counsellors Association; Grief counsellors in Queensland and the Australian Red Cross Society. Copies were also bought to help survivors of the Victorian Bush Fires (via the Australian Red Cross), and counsellors working on the New Zealand Pike Mine Disaster. As a result of this book Glennys was profiled by Seth Godin in his book based on a world wide search book, True Tales of people Poking The Box And Making A Difference.
eBook available on Amazon.com.au or Amazon.com Hardcopy – $19.95 (AUS) + postage. Contact Glennys via the contact tab.
Movie Review: No Other Choice
The movie No Other Choice is a unique, funny look at how far you'd go to get a job. When we meet Man-soo (Lee) he's living in...
Movie Review: My Brother’s Band
My Brother's Band movie starts and ends with music. In between is a tender and funny story about separated brothers My Brother's Band We first meet...
11 Tips of the Perth Festival 2025, Films
The 2025 Perth Festival film season has kicked off, here are my tips for this year. Somerville Theatre This year the festival brings 23 films from...