Everything we do and everything that happens allows us to grow if we’ll let it. Sometimes it’s easy to think that we should be further forward than we are – that we should have done things differently and made different choices. But there are never really any wrong decisions. Every path you took, decision you made and experience you’ve had got you exactly where you are today. Nobody else has the same life experience as you have. Nobody else has learnt and grown in exactly the way you were meant to. When there are bumps in the road it can be …Continue reading»
Your friendship is a gift
Your friendship is a gift. You will never know how much. You are like a beacon of light on a very dark night. You are unwavering and steadfast in your support. You are loyal beyond words and any doubt. You don’t know how precious that is to me. To know you are there, to know that you care. To know that you see me, that you value me, that you know who I am. To know I can be myself with you – my real self – without fear of judgment or rejection. To see your strength; to know that …Continue reading»
Everyday beauty and the art of savouring
I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Venice earlier this month. There was beauty around every corner… This got me thinking about the beauty in our everyday lives. It’s so easy to appreciate it when we’re in a beautiful place and somewhere new. But what about the beauty that’s all around us, every day? The things we may see often but take for granted. What about pausing to pay more attention to that? Slow down and notice what’s around you today. Stop to appreciate nature and everyday beauty. Take photos to capture what you see. Look around …Continue reading»
It’s an inside job
Things falling apart in any area of our lives can feel very scary and threatening, and all the more if it happens in more than one place at once. We all want to be able to define ourselves by certain things. It’s important to feel like we have an identity and to know who we are. We look to relationships, careers and other things outside of ourselves to help define us. We label ourselves. Depending on how these things are going we tend to feel better or worse. We look to these things as a measure of our self-worth. Other people …Continue reading»
The power to love
Love is all that matters, really. We feel lucky if we experience great love in our lives. But really that love is within us. I’ve always believed in the best kind of love stories. And I still do. These can be love stories and relationships of any kind. Sometimes things don’t work out how we want them to. Sometimes we’re disappointed. But nobody can take away our spirit or our power to love. That is ours, to keep. Love is what makes the world go round. It’s yours to give. You get to choose how and where you share it. …Continue reading»
The messy middle
I’m in the process of getting my website and associated things changed over to Kelly Burns, so I appreciate your patience as I do that. Some things are still in my old name, some things in the new. Rather than it being one smooth transition it’s been a bit more complicated than I’d hoped. Which got me thinking this is the way it goes with most transitions. Or with life in general! It isn’t always as smooth or straightforward as we would like. Things are often messier than we might choose. There are more things to consider than we may …Continue reading»
Your body is a temple and a guide
Whenever you’re feeling lost, confused or overwhelmed come back to your body. It knows the way. Sometimes there are just too many words. We need to verbally process things so that we can understand and make sense of anything that’s happening. But there can also be too much talking, too much noise. Too much input. We need to balance that with time to go inward, with time for quiet and peaceful reflection – so that we can get out of our heads and into our bodies. We need to turn our focus away from other people, from out there and …Continue reading»
6 months left to live
It does no harm to remember that life is short. It may seem morbid but the only guarantee in this life is that our lives will come to an end. We’re all heading in the same direction, we just don’t know when our individual journeys will end. Which is something most of us naturally prefer not to think about. Sometimes it’s brought frighteningly into focus, other times it may fade into the background. But actually keeping this at the forefront of our minds can make a great difference to how we live. To making sure that we’re living on purpose, …Continue reading»
Filling yourself up
We need to focus our energies on filling ourselves up, from the inside. So often we look to other people or other things to fill us up or to make us happy; to make things better, to take care of things, or to make us feel a certain way. But this is such a losing game, because we can’t control other people or the things outside ourselves. And so at some level we’ll always be fearful, because those things could be taken away. We aren’t the source of the things we want in this case, which understandably makes us feel …Continue reading»
What makes you unique?
Whilst I was away in The Big Apple I got to thinking about what makes each of us unique, and how easy it can be to forget. It’s so good to surround ourselves with people who see our light. Who appreciate us for what we are and all that we bring, because sometimes we forget. We stop valuing ourselves. We get knocked down, life throws us curveballs or we start to forget what makes us special. What others may love and appreciate about us. Things we do naturally that perhaps we don’t even notice. But the truth is we all …Continue reading»
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