What do your heart, body, spirit and mind tell you? Do you know what it means to be you? Part of being enough is acknowledging that YOU know what is best for you. It’s not for anyone else to tell you what is best. Of course, we can go to our trusted people, friends, a […]
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Sometimes in the world of self-improvement, ‘being amazing’ all the time is put on a pedestal, and there can be an avoidance of the suffering, a defiance that comes with real growth because it is too messy and painful—especially having to see the truth of our flawed self. Often this resistance will cause more pain
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I want to shout out to everyone suffering through grief, carers burdened to the point of exhaustion, people with chronic pain or illness, parents fighting their own battles, depressed or suicidal people, those in challenging or distorted relationships, or anyone finding life difficult to navigate for any reason at all. I see you. I know
I’ve been here for nearly 44 years and am only realising the true potential of the cake on offer – but you can’t eat it unless you pick it up and go for it! I finally get what they mean when they say, ‘You can’t have your cake AND eat it too’ It means if
I have a lot on my plate, none of which I want to drop. It has been increasingly more challenging to decide how to use my time each day to get the outcome I want, being confident I have achieved something. As I sit here and think about how my parents managed their time. I
Jim Rohn said, “You must learn to discipline your disappointment”. Excellent advice; if you don’t master this, you will be like a yo-yo, with emotions all over the place. I would go a step further and suggest that if you can discipline the great expectations we all experience, you won’t feel as much disappointment. I
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Sometimes grief is tricky. It can come out of nowhere and blindside you. Bill sent me a message with a spew face emoji in it. Usually, I would have gotten the joke maybe sending something offensive back. We would have gone on our merry way, each enjoying a little humour in our day. Not this
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I have been sitting on this post since about May, I needed to write while it was fresh in my mind, but it didn’t go out for one reason or another. Not the time, I guess. I wanted to share a specific experience that relates to my transition into new growth but also what it
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How did I lose myself? How did I get to a point where I had to search for my authentic self or even know I was lost in the first place? Knowing I was lost and in need of finding who I was, was just that… a ‘knowing’. I just knew, deep down in a
Our minds give us physiological reactions to stimuli (or physical reactions to thought). This is easily shown with the ‘lemon’ example. All you need to do is picture a lemon. Imagine getting a knife and slicing it into wedges. Think about the little bits of zesty juice squirting out. Imagine picking up one of those
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