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Self Sabotage….yes, YOU

April 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Brilliant and fabulous

Self sabotage is a dream stealer. Self sabotage leads us to eat another piece of cake. Self sabotage urges us to open the bottle of wine. Self sabotage chooses rotten partners for us. Self sabotage says it's too cold and wet and dark to go to the gym. Self sabotage stops us applying for that great job. Ladies and gentlemen, self sabotage is a bitch. It keeps us trapped within our comfort zone. It prevents us from becoming powerful. Why? I remember many years ago listening to Michael … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Inspiration, Midlife, Personal Development and Self Esteem

Start From Where You Are

April 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Start from where you are

So many times we sit paralysed because of fear or regret. We long for things to be different. We wish we'd made different choices. We regret things we either did or did not do. We sit frozen to the spot unable to think or see with any clarity, unable to move. That was me. My head ached from wishing, from over-thinking. It was getting me nowhere. Over time and with guidance I learned to stop wishing things were different. My life was the way it was however much I wished it was different. I came … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coaching, Conscious Living, Midlife

Radiators and Drains

March 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Warning

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. You can see that when you think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays." ~ Brenda Ueland. When was the last time you were truly listened to? To be listened to helps us feel valued, someone giving us their full attention allows us to believe that what we have to say is important in some way. It shows us that the … [Read more...]

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What Are Your Foregone Conclusions?

March 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
victim or hero

A while ago Danielle LaPorte posted this question on Facebook. What are your foregone conclusions? It stopped me in my tracks. Wow! What a question. It's a question that's been in and out of my thoughts ever since. I've asked this question to friends and my children. What are your foregone conclusions? What have you already decided is an inevitable result? What have you decided  as fact ahead of proper consideration or evidence? Interesting huh? I'm suspecting that for most of us we … [Read more...]

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What’s the Next Step

February 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Right Now

When I was going through some tough times a few years back, I would often find myself panicking and catastrophising a situation. I was so in the middle of the issue that I couldn't see outside of it. Does that make sense? I would spiral rapidly downwards and end up feeling exhausted and wretched. I would be unable to think with any clarity. I was unable to think creatively in a way that would enable me to see beyond the current 'crisis'. I was worn out.   As I sat slumped on a … [Read more...]

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Can’t, Should, Try

February 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
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Three seemingly innocuous little words. You think? I've spent quite a few years now listening in to my own self talk. It feels at times like I've been wired up as they do in the movies and sent in by the good guys as a mole to infiltrate and overhear what the bad guys are up to. You know the scenario? Well, I've done that a lot with myself and of course with my clients. These 3 little words pack some punch in how we view the world and what we believe about ourselves and what we believe is … [Read more...]

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Courage After Not Before

February 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Courage

 "The way it works is, you do the thing you're scared shitless of, and you get the courage AFTER you do it not before you do it." ~George Clooney as Archie Gate A shame that isn't it. You know we long for the courage in order to do the thing we're most scared of doing and this is why we put off and put off again the things we know we want and need to do because we're waiting in hope for courage to fall out of the sky. 'Fraid it's not going to work like that. So, what are you most scared … [Read more...]

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Juno’s Dad

January 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Juno

"Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with." ~Mac MacGuff Juno is one of my favourite films. Juno is a super cool, quirky, articulate 16 year old who finds herself pregnant after having sex for the very first time. She decides to keep the baby and give … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conscious Living, Dating, Midlife, Women's Issues

Be You. Don’t Hide It.

January 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
be you

Be You. Don’t Hide It. Imagine how different our lives would be if we did truly live this way. Who is the ‘you’ you hide? What does she have to say to the world? What will it take for her to be heard? Where is there abundance in your life? There is abundance in my life.  I am loved and I love in return. I am healthy and happy. I am cared for, my needs are met. Joseph Campbell advised us to follow our bliss. When we seek our own happiness, far from being a selfish act it allows … [Read more...]

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Take 10

January 16, 2013 by 2 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDoaQeQywDo I have explored meditation many times. For years I practiced yoga and meditation was very much a part of my weekly practice in class. Meditation has always appealed to me as a way of dealing with the stresses and strains of modern life. I wonder how differently I might have coped during the most stressful recent past had I continued in making meditation part of my daily practice? Instead I drank coffee and wine and became fully immersed in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conscious Living, Health and Wellbeing, Inspiration

Waterloo and City Line

December 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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I'm excited to share something special with you. A few days before Christmas I was catching up with a friend. We'd not seen each other in a long time.  Something happened that evening which we both felt was worth writing about and sharing.  Here it is. I hope you enjoy it and take something from it. Your comments as always are most welcomed.     Rebecca....... So there I was sitting on the sofa with Claire whom I'd not seen for over a year. We were celebrating life with a … [Read more...]

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Rediscovering Courage – in Life, in Love and in Myself

December 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I have it within me

A few days ago I received an email from a very dear friend. A friend who has been battling for some time now on issues of courage, self belief and self worth. She and I have been through much together with our marriages, our divorces and our children. She is right there in the centre of my inner circle. My heart has ached for her this past year. I have always had faith that she would find her way out of this bleak, dark tunnel. Her email inspired me to write, (a passage of which is written … [Read more...]

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Rise Up. Act. This is it.

November 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Today's not a warm-up. It's not a dress-rehearsal. There is no second act. What you do with it. Where you take it. Who you bring. These things matter. No do-overs. No tomorrows. No gimme's or get-backs. No single moment holds more power. Nor potential than this. To bless or fail. This, too, shall not pass. Nor yearning manifest. Until you own it all. Rise up. Act. This is it. This poem was written by Jonathan Fields, it resonated with me and I'd like to share it with you. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conscious Living, Inspiration

An Apple a Day

November 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Geraldine

Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down for a peppermint tea (actually mine was a coffee!) and a chat with Geraldine McColgan. Geraldine is a Nutritional Therapist who trained at the acclaimed College of Naturopathic Medicine in London. I wanted to speak with her about the importance of good nutrition in midlife. What we should be eating and probably more importantly what we should be eating less of. I'm thrilled that Geraldine and I will be collaborating, we are in the early stages of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health and Wellbeing, Midlife, Women's Issues

My Concrete Shoes

November 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Red Shoes

I had a dream at the start of the year, perhaps it was one of those dreams where you're not sure if you're awake or asleep, conscious or unconscious, at dawn or thereabouts. You know the time of night where your thoughts can be at times fear filled and catastophising or magical and highly creative. I was wearing concrete shoes. They were agony on my feet and I was attempting to live my life in them. Life was hard, I was virtually immobile and when I did manage to move it was with great pain, … [Read more...]

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There is More to Life than Increasing its Speed

October 23, 2012 by 2 Comments

'Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday  and tomorrow is beyond your reach' --Goethe Several years ago at the outset of all the changes that have recently taken place in my life I was talking to my coach about my constant feeling of breathlessness, feelings of permanently running to keep up with myself. Racing up the stairs, never walking anywhere, always desperate to cram another job, another activity into an already overloaded schedule. And then it hit me, I … [Read more...]

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Psst..pull up a chair, let me tell you a story about words…

October 10, 2012 by 2 Comments
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  Funny isn’t it how much we believe and take as fact much of what we’re told when we’re young? I grew up with the words of my English teacher resonating in my head. I remember as if it were yesterday the sheer humiliation I felt at 12 as my teacher slammed down my exercise book onto the desk in front of the whole class. How is it she said that I shone in French, Latin and Welsh…but that in English I showed “absolutely no imagination.” How those words stung. Little did I … [Read more...]

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My 3am Tribe

September 13, 2012 by 2 Comments
love and gratitude

Saturday evening I sat at my dining room table surrounded by some extraordinary women. If asked none would consider themselves to be extraordinary, they would say that they are simply ordinary women getting on with their fairly ordinary lives. Yet, put a group of ordinary women together and magic happens. Ordinary becomes extraordinary. These women and a number of others who couldn't be around my table form my tribe. We are stronger because of our tribe. These are women I could call at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family and Relationships, Inspiration, Midlife, Women's Issues

The Beauty of Imperfection

August 21, 2012 by 2 Comments
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We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect - Emilio Estevez How many times do we put off doing something because we believe we're not ready, we're not perfect? How long are we going to delay living our lives because we've got a back log of excuses. How many times are we aware of hearing ourselves say 'should, must, ought, have to'? What does your list of excuses look like? I know mine inside out! How does your … [Read more...]

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Making a Habit of Solitude

July 26, 2012 by 2 Comments
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There are voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world -- Ralph Waldo Emerson How often do you allow yourself to experience real solitude? I mean time that you consciously choose to spend alone? Time that you've carved out purely for yourself? Hmmm, I thought so. For those of us rarely alone, those of us who give of ourselves to others in our work and our family lives, creating time of solitude can seem like an impossible task. If we are … [Read more...]

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