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The Winds of Change
It's wonderful windy Sydney again. An annual blustery and blowy end of August beckoning in what September and Spring will bring. I love the wildness of the wind. Listening to it is one of the most vital of expressions. It howls and whispers at the same time. It has a...
Wisdom Season
Working with people in career decision can sometimes involve, what I call, a big-life transition. Where they find, or decide, that what they have built no longer sufficiently fits the bill, nor adequately fulfils their joy and destiny's will. They have come to a...
Moving On
Making transitions with career positions, particularly when facing redundancy, can present a mindfield of considerations. Decisions to make. Concerns to address. How to manoeuvre through adjustments. Leaving an old role and generating new opportunities. And the time...
A mandala art story
Many of you have seen me post my original mandalas and verses. I find them a useful tool for spreading inspirations for loving psyche development, and to get a wellbeing message out succinctly, to you. I mix them amongst my blogs, because, as any educator knows,...
The Wilderness…Charting Your New Territory
One of my favourite pastimes is bushwalking. Finding new walks that are not so easily marked. Going off the trodden way, to have a look see, with curiosity, and to find new things to marvel in, before getting back on path. I lovely analogy, on the life of the...
The Heart Knows
Occasionally, when it seems appropriate, I see couples during transition coaching programs. On one such occasion a new coachee saw me for an initial appointment. He was referred to me by a caring colleague. I saw in him, underneath the discussion, a brokenness that I...
This One Precious Life
How Precious This Life This One Precious Life Your Life My Life Our Life One Life Life How Precious! This One Precious Life May we Appreciate, Participate, Love, And Venerate This One Precious Life May we create Holy Happiness, Blissfulness, Delightfulness, and...
Your Future is Now
One of the difficulties that presents, in moving seamlessly through transitions, is ruminating about the past. The should have's, the could have's, and the wish I had's, that can cling to the psyche, with persistence. And it often comes up when losing things in the...
Ode to a life well lived
There has been an outpouring of grief for a friend and colleague. Jeff Milne. Apologies to those of you who I have not been able to get back to personally who have contacted me to assist. I have been processing my own grief in the mix. Jeff was an extraordinary human...
Meant for Fulfilment
Have you noticed that gratitude feeling of full? When your body is communicating happiness to you. That feeling of sufficient, glad, satisfaction, content. That 'just right' sense that Goldilocks meant. That wonderful feeling of appreciation. And centeredness....
Evolution from Within
My last blog marvelled at the changing season of Autumn. And it has truly been an absolute reflection of it's essence over the beginning weeks. It gives each of us a new opportunity to turn to an inward gaze. Looking out from a new awareness of inner dimensions, ripe...
Awesome Autumn
Change always offers us fresh opportunities to live. And one of my favourite types of change is the seasons. Allowing for shifting gears. Staying flexible. Appreciating a new tangible and intangible. New movements of light, colour, temperature and gaze. Entering the...
Kindle a Light
The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being ~ Carl Jung. It is a lovely statement isn't it. And that can be a challenge when you feel weighed down. Or overwhelmed. Focusing on how to thrive when chaos seems to surround you in...
All it takes
Recently I was reminded about a scene in one of my favourite movies. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Where Harrison Ford has to cross a chasm and take a leap of faith. He can't see the path. But when he throws sand out into the emptiness in front of him, the...
Honouring the Betwixt and Between
I have been reviewing a journey with a leadership coachee with whom I have been working. It helped us to recall and appreciate the cycle of her emerging into new vibrancy, and the world she has been recreating. Revisiting, and honouring her process, as a special part...
Pilgrimage Begin
Pilgrimage. A sacred voyage. Often described as a voyage to another place, somewhere away, somewhere immersed in an alternative reality. To find communion with oneself, out of everyday disparity. And what a valid way to reconnect, and explore, a different cosmology of...
Your Hero’s Journey
And here you are. Well into the first part of the year. Perhaps contemplating the happenings around you. As time is shifting, and ideas are sifting, more quickly, for many people and organisations on the world sphere. And as you keep moving into the deeper part of the...
For a new beginning
There is a poem I dearly love. It is by the late John O'Donohue. It is from his book To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings. And it is called For a New Beginning. And every beginning, which naturally follows some form of ending, offers uncertainties, and...