There’s no time like right now to stop and assess your strengths, opportunities, and threats and make some healthy choices that will empower you and transform your life. I call it developing personal leadership and cultivating resilience. While this, in my view, is a life way, a mindful lifestyle practice that can lead to personal fulfillment … [Read more...]
Helping Those Grieving a Loss
February 28, 2017 by
Understanding grief as the experience of loss is an important step in healing. Understanding healing as a process of moving into right relationship, towards wholeness, balance and harmony allows us to reframe the experience of loss and slow, perhaps even arrest the continual loss of energy, so common in the experience. Often, when a friend or … [Read more...]
How to Heal Yourself and Help Others When a Loved One Dies
February 24, 2017 by
When someone you love is dying…. This can be time of great sorrow and anguish or a time filled with peace, harmony and good will. Dying is both simple and complex – a process that often engages not only the one who is dying, but members of their family, caregivers, healthcare and hospice support team. It takes energy to die…to let go and … [Read more...]
Are you a Sucker for the Irrelevant?
January 30, 2017 by
Managing attention is the toughest challenge we face in our lives. Sucked up into the whirlwind demands of everyday living, like a rat on a treadmill, we give all we’ve got to keep the little treadmill going that keeps us humming and spinning ever faster….but whatever for? It’s the patterns of thought and behaviour that keep us stuck, in a rut, … [Read more...]
Anatomy of a Habit and How to Over-ride Old, Counter-Productive Conditioning
January 17, 2017 by
Engrams are what neurophysiologists call learned behaviour, neural patterns put to memory. They are coded step by step instructions for each habitual movement. The first time we do anything, whether learning to dance, swim, drive or walk, we have no engrams to rely on, so our movement is erratic and sloppy. With repeated practice, the engrams, for … [Read more...]
An Invitation to Open to the Magic of the Holiday Season
December 20, 2016 by
Give yourself a break from the hustle and bustle of your life to open to the magic of the season. You owe it to yourself. Simply pause, tune inwards and take a few deep breaths to quiet your mind. Now, listen to your heart. Trust that it will guide you – move you to attend to that which wants your attention. Stay present to your heart and give … [Read more...]
Mindfulness Coaching for Stress Relief, Focus and Success
October 19, 2016 by
What makes someone start looking for a coach may range from wanting to develop some new skills, have more confidence, improve balance and alignment in life, better time or business management skills to navigating a career or life transition or help with orchestrating a whole life makeover. People want to release old, outmoded ways of thinking … [Read more...]
Just For Today, Put Yourself First
July 28, 2015 by
How often have you said to yourself and others, “after I do this, or once I’ve done that, then I’ll ….go for a walk, read a book, book a massage, take a trip, go out for a night on the town, take that course I’ve wanted to take, take some time off work etc…the list goes on. Ask yourself, “What am I letting get in the way?” If you’re like most … [Read more...]
Deep Healing is just that – Deep!
May 13, 2015 by
Deep healing is akin to deep listening. To get to the level of healing that’s required to heal trauma in yourself you have to first open to yourself and listen deeply, patiently with compassion and forgiveness. This, deep and active listening, in itself, is a challenge and a particularly trying one for someone who is suffering with post traumatic … [Read more...]
The Power of the Circle
April 23, 2015 by
Today I want to write about the circle and what it evokes in me. The circle, as symbol, metaphor and as a living and dynamic form is “alive”. A circle has no beginning and no end. It is an open system; a symbol of wholeness, integration, oneness, eternal, presence and continuous self-renewal and as Rumi so beautifully expressed, the circle is … [Read more...]
