You are meant to thrive. Every impulse in nature and the Universe is towards well-being. When we cut ourselves, Nature’s instinct is to do all it can to heal that wound. When environmental disasters like fire, earthquake and tsumami occur, it does not take long for Nature
Read more →There’s been a lot going on of late – workshops, webinar preparations, coaching, school initiatives, business planning – on top of the normal running of family and home. I don’t say this for sympathy – we’re all busy and I’m no different – it’s just that my
Read more →“You cannot get it done, ever, and you cannot get it wrong. So you might as well relax and start having fun with this.” Abraham-Hicks I find this thought very liberating. I often hamper myself by getting hung up on doing things “right”. Sometimes “good enough”
Read more →Dearest reader – I’m back! Thanks for waiting. It’s been nearly 3 months since my last posting (crikey!) and I’ve had to ask myself “have I simply gone off the boil – forever? Maybe the blogging mojo has just evaporated (inexplicably) and I need to move on?”
Read more →Now that I’ve started running my Artist’s Way workshops again I’m going to be much more conscious about doing Artist’s Dates. These are basically about taking yourself off for about an hour a week just to have fun with you and you. They are meant to be
Read more →So, it’s now Year Two of this Happiness blog and, as I mentioned in my last post, I’ve taken on the fresh challenge (hence my new tagline) of daring to be more conscious. This is why…. Reality – the ‘what’s-so’ of things has always appeared to me
Read more →It’s 5 O’clock in the morning. I’ve been awake since 3am. Seems little point in going back to sleep now so here I am confessing what’s on my mind. The deadly compare-and-contrast bug – that’s what. The reason I woke at 3am was because my mind suddenly
Read more →Another song, another post! (If you want to listen while you read, here it is – sung by Rosemary Clooney): https://rd.io/i/QUCFXzeASns What got me thinking about this today was the realisation that things feel a lot sweeter when we’ve experienced the opposite emotion. For instance, doesn’t a
Read more →I heard this great metaphor today which I thought I’d share with you. It’s about the way we treat ourselves and a great reminder to be kind. Imagine that you are about to go on a 5 day road trip with someone who’s recently been fired from
Read more →I’ve been in a funny space – functional but fuzzy around the edges. (Hey alliteration! It makes me smile to own these words that have just spilled from my fingers: Funny. Functional. Fuzzy). I know where this state has come from – I’m sitting in a space
Read more →This quote utterly speaks to me at the moment as, more and more, I find myself exploring this idea of being a channel and getting out of my own way. “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and
Read more →I had a bit of an ‘aha’ this week when I realised how much I approach things having already decided how they’re going to go. It was a bit of a shock, I can tell you, because I pride myself on being a glass-half-full kinda gal. This
Read more →I love the analogy of a mountain river for our lives. We talk about the importance of ‘going with the flow’ but of course life will bring up blockages. It’s the nature of things and part of the fun of living. None of us want our rivers
Read more →I’m back! Phew – bit of a wipe-out there for a week. The curious thing about illness, I feel, is that it seems so often to coincide with an inner need for change. I noticed when I went from life coach to public workshop leader in 2002,
Read more →Mixed emotions today. I woke up this morning determined to bring a new kind of seriousnes to my business practices. I would wake early, do my morning writing and an hour’s work before getting the children ready for school. Then, I would work every morning from Monday
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