There is nothing like an emergency to help you establish your priorities. Whether the trigger is physical, emotional, financial, is often an irrelevance. They all stimulate exactly the same chemical in our brains, adrenaline. This is the fight or flight drug. You’ll have heard of it. One of the effects it can have in our […]
These words from Oriah’s “the invitation” always resonate with me: “I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it or fix it.” http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/ And this is the basis for all healing. It is within the moment following important words being spoken, that […]
I am not one to engage happily with the consumer-society we have created. It is possible to hoard however without spending any cash at all. Are you holding onto clothes that, even if you did return to a size ten, you probably wouldn’t wear now anyhow? You may have outgrown them in your persona too. […]
Whilst I make every effort to ensure that my blog and my practise are professional and protected by the appropriate codes of practise, protocols and contracts, I find there is one exception. When the sun shines, as brightly as it is now, in this glorious Indian summer we have been blessed with, everything administrative can […]
What if we believed we could choose our mindset? It is possible to look at just about any situation, or any individual, in a multitude of different ways. Then we evidence-gather to ‘prove’ this to ourselves. Sometimes it is preferable to feel ‘safe’ and ‘right’, even if we neither like the conclusion we reach, and […]
We do not hear ourselves, or our own needs and desires, for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons is practical. Most of us are very busy, juggling work and home and family and friends and community and it seems there is little time to set aside for ourselves. On a deeper level however […]