I don’t know if this applies to you, but I have had it pointed out to me (often actually!), that the professional commitments I make and the responsibilities i shoulder, and the expectations I have of myself sometimes do not honour my human needs. It is not clients or business partners that cop the brunt […]
Sometimes it is not possible to be on-top-of-it-all. However hard you work, however many hours you put in, sometimes the number of projects or clients in and out of the door is way to swift a turnover for the ends to be all nearly tied up before bed. This is when it is essential to […]
Slowly but surely, from here on in, the days will get longer and the light will return. Even though we cannot see it yet, small seedlings, snug beneath the soil, begin to send tentative tendrils downwards to seek the nourishment they need to flourish. We humans are no different. Whilst the days are dark, our […]
Working with clients to enable them to achieve their career goals, I am reminded just how impatient we humans can be…. Encouraged by a buy-it-now-fix-it-quick society, (and I include myself in this whole heartedly!), we can lose heart very easily. Once we have chosen a purpose or mission, we quit when we don’t land on […]
In blazing offices and centrally heated homes it is easy to forget we need the essential vitamins provided by real sunlight and fresh air. In our synthesised environments we easily lose touch with the rhythms and cycles of the year. Whilst in our bodies we may know we needs a good dose of vitamin D, […]
Trusting that in the spaces, whilst it feels dark and winter-esque and full or dormancy, tiny tendrils of new ideas and plots and desires are reaching tentatively outwards. Later they will extend out into the world. In the meantime’s, let them secretly grow and whisper your encouragement. Wait for them to ‘become’. To learn more […]
I had a plant I was very fond of. I’d had it for eons. I went abroad and in my absence, it withered & dried. I felt that all the effort I’d put into growing that foliage had been wasted. Grief for an old friend was attached to this plant so it was a double […]
it wasn’t until I was in my early 30’s the I began to recognise that to be envious has a purpose. As a child I had held the message that ‘envy was a sin’ and I am not even from a religious background. This message permeates all layers of our society & culture. It thus […]
Be it procrastination or the sheer overwhelming number of tasks in a day, sometimes it is difficult to know where to begin. A blank canvas, a relocation, a blog to write on the run, it’s usually fear that prevents humans from getting it done. We can worry and plan and stress and resist for as […]
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 […]