When fear feels like truth.
Many years ago, I had an out of the blue opportunity to work in Tokyo in one of the more random jobs I’ve had (and there’ve been a few) working as a weather presenter for a global ...
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Grumpy face goes running.
This was my grumpy face circa 1982 and again at about 8 o’clock last night when I had decided that I was going for a run. I was going, but I was not one bit happy about it. Brain: ...
Feel the pain, but don’t live in it.
We need to feel our pain and process our hurt, but we *do not need to live there*. It’s enough that these things happened in the first place, but a tragedy that we keep them alive in the ...
Never rewrite the truth of who you are.
I recently had the opportunity to partner with a company to deliver training, workshops and talks within organisations. Joy!! I was so excited. Nowhere am I more alive than in front of a group of ...
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First, Be. Then do.
So often we try and ‘think’ our way out of problems, don’t we? We go over and over the same old thought tapes in an effort to find answers but in the process, we get sucked deeper ...
People will never forget how you made them feel.
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the ...
Blog, Uncategorized, Wellness & Self-care
When all else fails – get up!
I woke in the middle of the night with a busy, buuuusy mind. So I did some mindful breathing for a while, which really quitened things down, but I was wide awake. I checked the time and realised ...
Blog, Uncategorized, Wellness & Self-care
Caring for ourselves is an act of survival.
I did a detox this week. I’ll spare you the details, but it basically involved drinking things that tasted like they’d been syphoned out of a garden drain, taking natural cleansers ...
![Oh, wow 💓 Here's to the cycle breakers... "For many of us, our generational "curse" is avoidance. We come from people who just act like "it" didn't / doesn't happen. But pain demands to be felt. And somewhere along the line, a child will be born whose charge it is to feel it all. These are your shamans, your priests and priestesses, your healers.
You call them mental health patients and label their power as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and the like. But these are the ones who are born with the gift of Feeling. And as we all know, you can't heal the pain that you refuse to feel." ~ Dionne Shannette Wood
#healing #mentalillness #trauma #emotionalwellness [Art: Archan Nair]](http://instagram.fdub2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/c25d91f26ebfb81b8c67b08ef97f1f6e/5BBA856E/t51.2885-15/s150x150/e35/30604317_1986205011596820_6222458144958709760_n.jpg "Oh, wow 💓 Here's to the cycle breakers... \"For many of us, our generational \"curse\" is avoidance. We come from people who just act like \"it\" didn't / doesn't happen. But pain demands to be felt. And somewhere along the line, a child will be born whose charge it is to feel it all. These are your shamans, your priests and priestesses, your healers.
You call them mental health patients and label their power as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and the like. But these are the ones who are born with the gift of Feeling. And as we all know, you can't heal the pain that you refuse to feel.\" ~ Dionne Shannette Wood
#healing #mentalillness #trauma #emotionalwellness [Art: Archan Nair]")
