Most people avoid crying at all costs. Crying can make us feel weak, vulnerable, embarrassed or exposed. Having a good cry means that we have to face our feelings and confront difficult emotions- not a pleasurable task. Most of us have been conditioned to have a thick skin – to put on a...
Every client I have worked with has heard my own personal mantra . . . Happiness is Not for Chicken Shits. For those who don’t know what a Chicken Shit is, it is a scaredy cat, a wuss or basically anyone who keeps themselves small and safe. It takes immense COURAGE to not only be happy...
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently spent some time on Heron Island. I was far away from the hustle and bustle, mindfully soaking up the lessons and blessings nature has on offer. In addition to the lessons on selfishness and sacrifice, another observation I made was the noticeable difference between high tide and...
I recently visited Heron Island, on the Great Barrier Reef. I love being immersed in nature- there are so many lessons to learn. Whilst there, I learned about an interesting adaptation of the Island trees that helps them adjust to the harsh weather conditions. In almost every tree there was one brightly coloured yellow...
It has been a challenging few years. At the beginning of 2015, the voice of inspiration whispered to me, ‘it’s time to write a book’. From then on, that voice nagged and nagged until I surrendered. And so I wrote a first draft, and then a second draft and then a third draft...
Self-acceptance is an essential element of self-love. To love ourselves fully we need to understand and accept who we are. This gives us self-compassion and the ability to design our lives in alignment with our truth. Self-acceptance does not always come easy. We are often hard on ourselves or focus on being the...
Imagine, being a teenager again and having the opportunity to hear from your adult self about how life turned out… In this week’s blog, I share with you an intimate letter I wrote to my 16-year-old self. I wanted to remind myself how far I have come from those scary and dark days. Even...
We all know that feeling of disappointment when things don’t go our way. We build up expectations or make plans in our minds and then smack, we are met with a twist or a turn that breaks our expectations, leaving us in a space of frustration and uncertainty. Very often, though, it’s not...
Meditation really did save my life! As a sensitive child I was quite emotional and reactionary to trauma, drama and stress in my life. I remember the tantrums and eruptions of my emotions and feeling out of control. I remember as a young child arguing with my Mum and like a great drama queen,...
We all fear failure and one of the hardest challenges we face within ourselves is moving on from times we thought we failed. When we are stuck in a failure mindset we get caught in a list of all the things we did wrong and we beat ourselves up for not being good...