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From first impressions to that overwhelmed feeling.
From first impressions to that overwhelmed feeling can happen in a flash can't it! Often we don't even know we have done it because we don't notice that we have created a story. Stories like that look someone had on their face means they are thinking badl
You make a molehill out of a mountain.
"You make a molehill out of a mountain", is what was said to me at the end of a conversation yesterday. And I just love it because I think it really sums up what I do. It tells you how I help people. Where there is stress and overwhelm I help there to be
Living outside facts creates that overwhelmed feeling
Living in denial of facts creates that overwhelmed feeling because there are some facts about being human. They are truths - like those in science - like gravity. Imagine for a moment if you lived whilst denying gravity; stepping through broken things all
Presence or positivity - which is more important?
Presence or positivity? Which one do you think is more important? Positivity might look like the winner because it gets a really good press. But presence brings so much more. When we think positively about the future, we are just swapping one lie for anot
Are you trying to be 100%
Are you trying to be 100% in how you are feeling or in your business or in your parenting? I think I tried to be 100% for a long time. That didn't turn out too well. Burn out was the result. It turns out that being 100% isn't really human and anyway how d
Would you like to be more like Dory?
Do you remember Dory from Finding Nemo? She is his little friend who helps him on his journey. The most significant thing about Dory is that she suffers from short-term memory loss but that is one of my favourite things about Dory. She turns up in every m
Would you like directions or instructions for the SAT NAV?
Would you like directions or instructions for the SAT NAV because I, like many others who want to help, could do either. I could tell you all the things I have done. All the tools and techniques I tried. How I went on my journey from burn out to Queen of
It's Impossible Not to Think
It's impossible not to think! I tried it for a while. Meditation seemed to be the way to do that. But those thoughts just kept popping in. Of course because we are supposed to think. You cannot stop that. The initial thought predictably turns up but there
Misunderstanding Feelings
I spent years misunderstanding my feelings. It went through 2 phases. The first phase looked like this. If I felt angry, I thought that was coming from the person who wronged me. If I felt happy, I thought that feeling was coming from a circumstance I had
Let Me Show You Where Calm Isn't
Let me show you where calm isn't because then you will find it yourself. Because calm isn't in having some time to yourself, in the run you do every day or in the bar of chocolate or the glass of wine. It also isn't in the massage, the meditation or the w