Subject: I wish I'd been told this...
I wish I'd been told this...
April 7th, 2021 at 10:12 am MDTLife would have been easier. I wish I'd been told this... I received this email from a friend. I am making a book for my daughter as a coming of age kind of present. I will probably only give it to her down the line but I would like to start making ...
It was abusive.
March 31st, 2021 at 10:15 am MDTBut she managed to leave... She managed to leave her abusive marriage I'd like you to meet Valery Molone. She has an extraordinary story. She was forced into marriage at a very young age, sent from her family in Afghanistan to America at age 13 wher ...
Is it ok to be selfish?
March 24th, 2021 at 10:15 am MDTIs it ok to be selfish? I’m grappling with this idea that everything I do has to be for ME. I know it, I write it, I live it as much as I can, yet it is so different to what society normally teaches. I keep bumping into some version of “It’s ...
Don't block your feelings...
March 17th, 2021 at 10:15 am MDTIt can cause havoc. You know how it is when part of you has protected you by being closed off to feelings, and suddenly it begins to FEEL again? And there’s that horrible sense of confusion and fear and vulnerability... In my meditation a while b ...
When you block your feelings...
March 17th, 2021 at 10:15 am MDTIt can cause havoc. You know how it is when part of you has protected you by being closed off to feelings, and suddenly it begins to FEEL again? And there’s that horrible sense of confusion and fear and vulnerability... In my meditation a while b ...
What if your needs clash with someone else’s?
March 10th, 2021 at 10:13 am MDTCan you still listen to yourself? What if your needs clash with someone else's? I’m in this really unpleasant moment right now where I’m doing something that’s really important to me - and it’s making someone else very uncomfortable. And sli ...
You are not here to serve others
March 3rd, 2021 at 10:15 am MDTNot in the way you think You are not here to serve others Not in the way you think... If you believe you have to look after others’ needs before you look after your own, STOP. It’s not helpful to you, or your loved ones, or the world. I explain ...
Baseball and Self-Acceptance
February 24th, 2021 at 10:15 am MDTA funny connection Loving yourself even applies to baseball! Did you know baseball teams win more games when the players accept themselves more? I watched the movie Moneyball the other day. It’s really well made – and it stars Brad Pitt. Need I ...
What colour are you?
February 17th, 2021 at 10:15 am MDTWill you let it show? Do you let your colour show? Let’s say you’re a blue colour pencil in a large box of colour pencils. And you start to believe that your shade of blue colour isn’t very important, it isn’t as good as the other colours. T ...
Are you guilty of Perfection Abuse?
February 10th, 2021 at 10:15 am MDTAre you full of 'should'? Many of us are guilty of Perfection Abuse. (My friend came up with this term the other day. I think it's brilliant! Thanks Andreas.). Perfection Abuse is when we angrily shame anything that we judge to be 'not the way it s ...