Nine months ago, Sue Gee moved into the Gaia Temple, a women’s community in Melbourne – and learned to be by herself for the first time in her life. We are speaking via video call and she pans around the statuettes and icons. “I’m living with goddesses galore,” she says. There are fewer mortals – just Gee and two other residents.
Gee, who is 68, was “shattered” by a collision of life changes that coincided with the first stirrings of the pandemic. She retired from her job as a music therapist, went through the breakup of her long-term relationship, and moved to a new neighbourhood of Sydney.
