My love of nature began from a young age. It was in nature that I found solace and comfort. Today I also find strength and clarity. It’s where I feel at my best. It’s where I feel happiest. The outer open space of nature always helps me feel more spacious inside.
Read MoreIt's Mental Health Awareness Week and this year the theme is kindness. What does kindness mean to you? Studies have shown that people who do more acts of kindness are happier and those who experience kindness feel more connected to themselves and others.
Read MoreWhat we resist persists. The more we push away and fight against our anxious feelings, the more anxious and panicky we become. Why is that? What would happen if we could turn towards the Coronavirus situation and radically accept it for what it is?
Read MoreFear, panic, stress have the potential to define us – how we live, work, feel and manage our day to day. But there is another way. We can make choices about how we deal with adversity so that we stay connected, resilient and maintain good mental health.
Read MoreWhen things happened to us in childhood, we naturally formed expectations about how we were likely to feel in similar situations. Based on these expectations we developed strategies to avoid what I call the ‘dreaded experience.
Read MoreMental ill-health is often hidden. What we see from the outside is not an accurate reflection of what is going on in our mind and heart. As we become more in tune with what is going on with our mental and emotional health, we learn to understand ourselves better, develop greater self-acceptance and a more caring attitude.
Read MoreLeaders can use mindfulness to bring awareness to their thought patterns and leadership style, and as a result respond creatively rather than react to work life. This helps leaders to increase focus, emotional self-regulation, empathy, perspective and adaptability to changing and complex situations.
Read MoreCoaching Immersion Days. Consider them a gift to yourself. They offer a more intense coaching experience where you’ll have my undivided attention, support and guidance over a half or full day, providing a truly precious opportunity to unearth some deep-seated issues or to talk through a major life event or decision.
Read MoreDo we need to set intentions every January in order to live the life we want to live? Or is the question: How serious are we about our life? Intuitively we know what is good for us, to live this one and precious life well and purposefully.
Read MoreStressful things happen in life to all of us. Stress has the potential to define us – how we live, feel and manage our day-to-day. But we can make choices about how we deal with it.
Read MoreWhile medication has its rightful place, there are many practices that can help us to improve our mental health - body, mind and heart.
Read MoreSelf-kindness can make us more emotionally robust and mentally resilient, it can also help us to learn from our actions rather than think we have failed.
Read MoreMany of us will sadly be far more familiar with self-deprecation, self-judgement and even self-hatred than acts of self-kindness, but kindness to self is the source of happiness, positive emotion, well-being, resilience.
Read MoreMany of us live with feelings of guilt. In this blog, I share some tips for how to work with guilt which I hope will be transformative.
Read MoreLearning to say ‘yes’, can keep us more in the flow, bringing out our creativity, making life lighter, more fun and enjoyable. Worth a try isn’t it?
Read MoreOff-track with your resolutions for this year? Feel like giving up? By nature, we tend to focus on what we haven’t achieved, letting the small victories pass us by. Don’t give up, start over.
Read MoreOur modern lifestyle often overwhelms the brain with more information than it evolved to handle. Find out how to change our habit of being easily distracted to one that can stay focused on one thing at a time.
Read MoreTimes of crisis, death, loss of a job, old age and sickness etc can make many of us feel blue and lonely. In this blog I share some thoughts on what loneliness is and some tips for how to feel less lonely.
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