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Blessings Blooming Blossoms
One of the wonders of Winter is that it gives us time to prepare for a new season of activation. Time to review, and imbue, a more refined element, of development, and what's important. A time that creates, in the heart hearth, opportunity for consolidation, and...
The Royal Yes
I have been pondering lately, and having discussions broadly, about a topic that has been circulating, as we are nearing the next referendum, and a potential new turning, in history making. A future building opportunity that we are taking. We are at another...
Puff and Stuff
In the last few weeks I have been drawn to an old show theme H. R. PUFNSTUF. Do you know it? H. R. PUFNSTUF. Who's your friend when things get rough? And it occurred to me that it is a theme presenting regularly. A theme about the Puff, and Stuff, people can get...
Stay in Your Lane
Stay in Your Lane is a great mantra reminder I suggest to people when they are getting scattered by the distraction of competition, and not true to Self, or purpose. It's a great reminder because when you go off course, you will have to return to solid ground that is...
Personas Non Grata
Personas are the roles people play. They are different to their true essence flowing through their lives in every way. They are often a way that people live their lives, from learned observation, of how they should act, rather than from who they are. They live their...
A Kiss of Bliss
Cultivating joy is a process of happiness in development and actualisation. When I discuss with clients how to cultivate joy, I will sometimes ask them what gave them joy in childhood, and whether they can replay it, for a renewed affect, in adulthood. I rediscovered...
What’s in a Name?
One of the elements that is covered in the beginnings of a psychotherapy training module, when undertaking preparation to assist others in self examination, is a thorough process of self awareness and life evaluation. An observation, and penetration, into the deeper...
The Queendom/Kingdom of Your Own Being
Understandably the international focus has been on the passing of one British monarch and the accession of her successor. And no matter what you think about the monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II's reign has been an outstanding representation of stoic dedication and...
The Beauty Way
There is a wonderful blessing from the Navajo called the Pollen Path. Also known as the Beauty Way. I liken it to the process, and the ending of a journey. Where you are now emerging into a new world that is becoming. Where you can spread your wings into new...
The Why of Loving
Love is simply the the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. These words are attributed to Plato. Plato revered beauty for revealing the mysteries of the soul. And for me that was how I felt when I was working with people. Loving, interested, and amazed at...
Spirit of Heart Matters
The first time I watched the talk below I was running my previous consulting business, Connecting Hearts and Minds, when I was working with senior leaders on the balance of their professional and personal aspects. It became a great teaching tool for combining the...
Nature’s Harmony : a mandala art story
To me, Easter is a most sacred time of year. The feast of the Christian ceremony, symbolically, of death and rebirth, is incredibly powerful, in the energy of the holy days it encapsulates. Even nature seems to slow to a stillness, and a reverence of harmony, that is...
Life’s Spectrum
Many years ago I was asked how I reconcile a combination of positive psychology and depth psychotherapy as part of the preferences of modalities I enjoy using. I found this a curious question as it suggested that I could only operate in one camp, or another. Yet, for...
Trauma Trigger Points
There is no doubt that the picture stories from various events and conflicts that are being witnessed locally and globally are distressing. Creating the rupture of trigger points around survival, and security, and broken heartedness, that are creating significant...
Leadership Qualities
Over many coaching and executive leadership years, some leadership qualities have continued to surface consistently. And as I wade through my mandala collection of drawings that emerged over the more recent years of coaching, two snapshot picture stories stand out as...
Your Story Unfolding
As you deepen further into your unfolding, perhaps having walked through the threshold of a newer world dawning, you may have traversed another gateway from where you have been, to where you are travelling, into the greater wheel of time scheme. Have you been...
Looking Up
The year is brand new. And it offers a changed view, if you are inclined to do. To focus on Looking Up, and composing an improvement on the last one, for a better 2022. And to prepare for your new Looking Up view, you may choose to set a mood word or two as a recovery...
Fragrances of Love
Love comes in many fragrances, traditions, relationships and conditions. And to take opportunities to spend some quality time and space, with a grateful pace, for the aroma of love to receive an extra embrace, is a chance for added grace. To appreciate what it is in...