Stop picking up the stories

Stop picking up the stories

  Thank you for making me laugh last week, Shilpa Jamieson,  with your post and the letter below: **Dear Parent During the month of December, amongst other things we will be assessing: your memory, budgeting, baking, seat-grabbing, relationship maintaining,...

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Four years on

Four years on

All day yesterday I tried to sit down and write a blog as it was a significant day for me.  But, as with many others at this time of year, I was preoccupied with my full-time, unpaid Mum’s taxi service role for my gorgeous (even though they grunt at me) teenage boys....

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Extraordinary awakenings – book recommendation

Extraordinary awakenings – book recommendation

Over the last year or so I’ve been interested in “ego-death” and what that actually means. I’ve been fascinated by our apparent ‘addiction’ to pain and fear and how that seems to link to our mentally constructed versions of reality which create our perception of...

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Finding your people

Finding your people

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve quoted Brene Brown in my blogs and posts.  My favourite quote is “what are you afraid people will see if they see the real you?”  Sorry if I’ve bored you to death with that one!  But it’s the first place I go when I’m...

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Dispelling the Myth

Dispelling the Myth

I saw a post the other day saying that it is a myth that Coaches can’t work with trauma and I really resonated with it. We have all experienced perceived threatening situations where we didn’t feel resourced to fight the threat or run away (flee)?  So our biology...

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