On asking my husband what to blog about, he, possibly slightly passive-aggressively, suggested ‘assertiveness’. I giggled as a watched he’s him unwillingly wielding the hoover and began. Having come from a household where, as the only child of two teachers, I had always found it rather difficult to have my small opinion heard, I moved out […]
It strikes me that Spring is on the way. What also strikes me is that in nature, by the time we see new growth, much of the hard work has already been done. That whilst appearing dormant, bulbs and plants have been breaking open and putting their roots deep down in the ground. That during […]
In this society we are overly encouraged to ‘buy’ ourselves treats as rewards for success. I believe however that reward comes in many forms…… Yesterday was a huge professional turning point for me, and today I feel depleted. I know that it took a huge push to achieve my goal yesterday. Luckily, what I also […]
Sit and ‘think’ about something for too long and if you’re anything like me, you can talk yourself into doing something and right back out of it again. If you are like me you can do this several times over and perhaps explore a few more options, and, in the end, do none of them. […]
One of the points up for consideration at a meeting this week was ‘are you hanging out with the right people?’. I suspect that last time that question was asked of me I may well have been in my late teens, it may well is a been posed by my parents, and I may well […]
Interestingly life has presented me with a whole heap of opportunities to challenge old perceptions of myself and reclaim them in new ways. This is doing me SO much good. Returning to a city I lived in over 20 years ago, inhabiting the ‘Me’ that I have become, is heartening. I probably didn’t let myself […]
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 […]
So how does listening to ourselves, and especially our bodies, relate to our professional development? Surely unless we work in a physically demanding environment, and there are less and less of these in existence, then we pretty much rely on our brains right? This is what modern science and our western society would have us […]
You can have it all, but the bad news is that this can only be for some of the time. Yes there are days or weeks when we humans can go all-out to achieve our aims. We can juggle social commitments and meeting professional targets and achieving our personal goals. For a time we flourish […]
It seems it is not being centred at all times that is the measure of our wellbeing, but the swiftness with which we return. This is a total misquote of a Buddhist saying, but for me it holds a resonance. We design and choose our way of being according to need and to the information […]