(This is the view from my dining table/desk while I am pondering this post…) What do you do every day so you don’t have to deal with your pain or fear? I’ve been sitting with a lot of emotional discomfort recently. Lots of loneliness. Lots of out of comfort zone (and sheer terror!) for a […]
Category Archives: My journey’s lessons
Underestimating the sheer magnificence of fun
Wow! The most incredible aha moment happened for me last week. I’m working through a coaching program with a fellow coach that is studying at the same time as me. Each week we focus a different part of your life. This week we discussed fun and my dreams and goals and desires for this area […]
Life isn’t always a bed of roses
I don’t want to be misunderstood here. Yes I’m very happy and very good at optimism. But this does NOT mean I don’t have bad days. I do. One night last year I was so miserable about my life that I decided if I wasn’t any happier in a year’s time I could kill myself. […]
BOOK REVIEW: ‘first, we make the beast beautiful’ by Sarah Wilson
WOW. What an eye opener. I loved this book. I’m struggling to get through some books at the moment but this one I couldn’t put down and finished in 2 days. The tip of my iceberg is totally ‘life natural’ and that’s who I thought I was. But I’ve learnt that I’m not. I nodded […]
Cut yourself some slack
(from the Honolulu Museum of Art – May 2016) I’ve really been struggling to work out how I can be so tired after 4 months of not having a ‘normal 9 – 5 job’. Usually we take a week off here and there to rejuvenate and we are insanely excited and then head back to […]
The beginning of my journey to no fear from here
In 2015 I started to feel something was missing in life. Quite honestly, I felt scared of everything. I felt there had to be something more to life. I felt other people were having more fun than me. What were they doing? How were they doing it? How can I get me some of […]
Let’s have fun and deliberately ignore the experts
You don’t have to be a morning person. You don’t have to do yoga. You don’t have to eat 3 meals a day. You don’t have to wear the latest fashions. You don’t have to be a minimalist. You don’t have to use adult colouring in books. You don’t have to follow current investment advice. […]
4 experiments for the best self esteem
2017 has started as a year of soul searching for me. I’ve had time to ponder and reflect which has expanded my self awareness. And what has become increasingly important to me is growing my self worth. Unless we really believe in ourselves I think we struggle to make big changes or do things to make our […]
Doing it (or not doing it in this case) for self-love
This year I’ve decided is all about growing my self worth. The first area I started reviewing was my relationships and what they have looked like for the last couple of years. And I don’t feel they have been reflecting me feeling worthy. So to begin, I am committing to myself that there will be no […]
What if Valentine’s Day gave you a reason to change you?
In Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert says… When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it… Welcome to the human experience… Never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. If […]