Underneath the busyness of our everyday lives and the incessant mental chatter, we are all infinitely wise and inherently intelligent. The greatest difficulty to accessing our inner wisdom is in stilling the mind and getting out of our own way, as learned from personal experience and then witnessed in my clients over the last ten years of coaching … [Read more...]
Allowing vs Controlling – Attitude in Health and Healing
A human being is a multi-dimensional, complex system of systems consisting of over 70 trillion individual cells. This rather simple representation of a complex system may help illumine and enable informed decision making for improved quality of life. Recognizing that, in solution, a cell can make only one of three simple choices: move … [Read more...]
Transforming Archetypal Patterns of Behaviour that Keep you Stuck into Navigational Aids
Archetypes are universal patterns, ideas, and images that live and grow in the collective unconscious that express themselves through symbol or metaphor and can be recognized as inherent potentials. Archetypes are inborn tendencies shaping behaviour. When brought into conscious awareness, archetypes can be transformed from a hidden, repetitive and … [Read more...]
This Wonderfully Grounded Lightness of Being!
After years of searching, Natalie shares the breakthrough experience she has had with coaching. “Thank you, Julia, for helping me peel away untold layers of stuff and baggage and never giving up on me when I teetered on the edge of giving up on myself. The blame and difficult memories alive for so long have faded. They are miraculously being … [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...]
Awakening to Choice is Self-Empowering
Awakening to Choice is a beautiful piece of anonymous prose I received from a friend and share it here with you. It's inspirational in its wisdom and resonates with the shifts in perspective many of my coaching clients tell me they experience. The piece gives expression to the process of awakening and accepting responsibility for choice, that's at … [Read more...]
Self Esteem and the Power of Belief
Self esteem is affected either negatively or positively by how we relate to ourselves and how we respond to and interpret life stressors such as: Job promotion or being passed over Provocation Financial set-backs or challenges Unfair competitions Injustice “The belief that becomes truth for me…is that which allows me the best use of … [Read more...]
Heal Yourself – Transform Self-Punishment to Self-Care
The self punishing mindset has many masks and a multitude of negative inner messaging loops or tape that can, if not caught and corrected, lead to the development of Eating disorders, binge eating Addictions as form of escape Body image issues and shame Feeling like a failure with an overwhelming sense of powerlessness, hopelessness, … [Read more...]
Healing the Divine Feminine
For centuries the divine feminine principle has been suppressed, repressed, abused and neglected. The last century saw her starting to stir expressed through what became enormous cultural and value shifts in women’s movements around the world. It is high time that She be set free. There are signs of her growing impatience and unrest. She … [Read more...]
Straight from the Heart
When we are heart-centered, we speak unabashedly and simply, directly from the heart. We have nothing to hide because we are open and all that we are is visible – we stand naked. We simply are! In this state we experience both the fullness and the emptiness of being. Both full and empty at one and the same time we become aware of our life as an … [Read more...]