Life is short. Life is precious. Life is here for the taking. It could be over for any one of us, at any time. Which can be a morbid thought, but also an opportunity to make sure we’re really awake. Life is happening now. So we have to live now. We can be so busy making plans and trying to get somewhere, that we forget to live in the moment. We take things so seriously, and forget to laugh. We hesitate to grab opportunities that come our way, with both hands. We forget to be as enthusiastic, or grateful as …Continue reading»
Taking your power back, and a birthday request
Today is my birthday, and I’m happy to be in the sun celebrating with loved ones. Birthdays are a great time to think about how far we’ve come in the last year, what we’ve achieved, what we’ve worked through or overcome, and how we want to celebrate. They’re a good time to take stock, and check that we’re on track with what feels most true to us, and to check that we’re putting our energies into the right things. We can do this at any time of course. I’m happy to be turning 36 today. 35 felt like a bit …Continue reading»
Self-esteem
I’ve been been working on some projects around self-esteem for my Psychology Masters, along with some students in my work. It’s something I’ve been passionate about for a while, but it’s got me thinking about the importance of self-esteem, where it comes from, and what we can do to improve it. Why do we even need self-esteem? Why does it matter? Well it’s proven to be linked to depression and anxiety. We know it can be protective against mental health issues, and it underpins just about everything we do. We all know how much better we feel in general when we feel …Continue reading»
Boundaries and speaking your truth
Boundaries are about strength and self-respect. Boundaries help us to communicate what we want, and to stand up for ourselves. Boundaries help us to be honest with others, and to lead the lives we most want to lead. Boundaries mean being able to state things clearly, and being able to respond rather than react. Boundaries mean we can avoid resentment, and the feeling that anyone is trampling all over us. We can be lovingly firm, and clear. Boundaries can be drawn whenever we feel a sense of intrusion, injustice or anger rising. Our boundaries tell the world what we will and …Continue reading»
Bring your own sunshine
We have been enjoying the start of some lovely spring weather here in the UK, and I notice how much better I feel when the sun is shining. How everything around me feels more positive and full of potential, and I see I’m not alone in that. Which got me thinking about how we can generate our own inner sunshine, when perhaps the weather isn’t so good – which to be fair in England it often isn’t! What is it about the sunshine that feels so good? And how can we fill ourselves up with it from the inside? How …Continue reading»
Celebrating the woman you are
Happy International Women’s Day! This is a great opportunity to celebrate all of the women that we love and admire. It’s a great chance to be thankful for them and for ourselves, and for the lives that we’ve got. Which women do you love and admire? And why? Tell them. Which women inspire you? What is it about them? How can you channel more of that, and bring more of it into your own life? Seeing them rock it shows that it’s possible for you too. And how can you celebrate yourself more? What is great about you, that perhaps you …Continue reading»
If it isn’t fun, don’t do it
Back in December I was chatting to a friend about joy. Something that these days I always try to keep at the forefront of my mind, but that after a busy couple of weeks had slipped out of my awareness. Joy, oh yes joy! My body felt relieved at the prospect. And I was reminded of something else I often think to: ‘If it isn’t fun, don’t do it!’ So I invite you to consider whether the things that you’re doing feel like fun. If it isn’t fun, don’t do it! Or if you can’t get out of it, how …Continue reading»
How do you want to be treated?
Hello, and wishing you a very happy new year 🙂 It’s a time when many of us will want to be embracing a fresh slate, and making resolutions. For me what it really comes down to is how we most want to feel, and what we’d like to be experiencing more of. This is really good news because the power is within each of us to feel more of whatever it is we want to feel. I’d like my first post of 2017 to be about treating ourselves the way we’d ideally like others to treat us, and consequently feeling …Continue reading»
Comparison is the thief of joy
Comparison is the thief of joy – Theodore Roosevelt. Our egos love to compare. They love to see how we’re doing in relation to others. It gives us some sort of yardstick to measure ourselves against. If we compare ourselves favourably, and perceive that we’re doing well compared to others, we feel superior and good about ourselves. If we compare ourselves negatively, we feel inferior, lacking and less than good about ourselves. Our egos are constantly playing this game, we are constantly winning and losing, which is why things can feel so up and down. But what if we no …Continue reading»
Beauty from the inside out and ageing
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself – Coco Chanel. We seem to be a culture that is obsessed with how we look, and with holding onto youth. We often derive self-esteem from our looks and how others perceive us. It’s common for us to obsess about our physical appearance in some way. But this is always going to be a losing battle. Even when great beauty is achieved on the outside, there can be an emptiness on the inside. So clearly striving only for this outer perfection is missing the point. What if we could see it …Continue reading»
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