Love as Medicine – Thoughts on how to Enhance Immune Function

It has been said that… “Love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy in the world.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin How can it be so? We, along with everything else, live in, contribute to and are sustained by the universal energy field. Signals from this universal field or environment affect our state of being…we are in … [Read more...]

Reflective Practice – A Practice for Peace, Courage and Inspired Action

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” Peter Drucker Reflective practice is learning that is directly linked to our actions, thought and feeling – to our direct experience. As a practice, reflection offers us a way to explore and direct the development of our abilities, … [Read more...]

Mindset – Key to Liberation or Enslavement

I see it time and again…how what a client believes shapes their perception and limits their experience. What does it take to have an “open” mind? Why does it matter? The assumption is that if your mind’s made up, you’ve come to a judgment and require no more information. Your mind is therefore closed and you direct your available energy to … [Read more...]

How to Activate Your Blueprint for Optimum Health and Wellness

Your blueprint for optimal health and wellness is within you as the oak tree is to the acorn. Imagine it as always being there – at the centre of your being. To activate self-healing, call upon this blueprint for optimal health. Think of it as shifting a handheld kaleidoscope to the select view – the view you want to call into focus….your … [Read more...]

Person-Centered Therapy at the Heart of Coaching

Person-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers  in the mid 1950s, assumes that human beings have an innate drive to grow towards their potential when they are in a nurturing and accepting environment. Premise In Rogers’ person-centered therapy the client is recognized as the expert; the therapist creates the environment that will facilitate … [Read more...]

How can Sustainable Success be Possible?

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...]

Spirit Called Awake

As dictionary.com defines it, Spirit is “the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul”. To “inspirit” means “to animate with fresh courage, to encourage, urge on or stir up, as to action.” Inspiration has a similar meaning “stimulation or arousal of the mind or feelings to … [Read more...]

The Healing Space and How to Create It

To create a healing space is to create the conditions for the possibility of healing to occur. In other words, healing is a state of being, of consciousness, that enables the client to access and engage their own “inner healer” and move towards wholeness, a dynamic state of balance, equanimity and poise. To create this kind of healing space is … [Read more...]

Vitality is Life: Some Conditions Apply!

 There’s no season that teaches us more about vitality than Spring when nature’s primal life-giving force is irrepressible and the growing conditions are just right to activate earth’s inherent fecundity in an explosion of colour, scent and growth everywhere around us. Nature’s abundant generosity stirs us awake at our very core, and inspired by … [Read more...]

Self Compassion and You

It is no surprise to me and I expect won’t surprise you either that people who treat themselves with compassion feel better about themselves and have better coping skills – are more able to respond rather than react to disappointments and setbacks. The September 2014 research study at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, by Kelly et al., 2014 … [Read more...]