Blog

"It's never too late" is a phrase we hear ourselves say to others all the time.   People will tell us about something they want to do, place they want to go and how they're hesitating or feeling it's too late...and we will encourage them with that phrase... But...

"Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." Oh my goodness, what an emotive quote that is.   Attributed to Buddha and one which rings true on so many levels for so many of us.  It certainly does for me. I also think...

For nearly 3 weeks we've been having our front drive reconfigured.  At one stage we had a 'moat' as a lot of soil around a rose bed was dug out. Noisy, dusty, dirty and longer-than-quoted.  Heyho.   We stayed in the 'messy middle' part for longer than...

After a break of nearly 12 months off I went again!  One of my positive intentions for 2023 is to pick up speaking French again and to reconnect with a tutor - and scratch my brain for vocabulary lurking in there from the 1990s when I lived in Paris....

There's a well-known saying "as one door closes another one opens" and it's true, just not always obviously nor on the same day. As I decided mid-year last year that it was time to change things up in my life, create more space, work more mindfully and...

We're often being told to "stop living in the past" and to "forget it, it's gone" or such advice.   The intention is positive of course.  We can't change what's happened and we can't undo or unsay what's been done or said. We can however learn from it. ...

One of my mentoring group members told our gathered group something which has us spitting feathers!  Metaphorically speaking but you get the idea.   Annoyed.  Outraged.  Infuriated.  A couple of us swore. Jane, let's call her, had deputised...

When I heard my client say along the lines "I've given myself permission to watch a bit more TV" it struck me. That's exactly what I wanted to do.   I'd been very strict with myself for years about if, when, how, what I watch on TV.  Rarely turning the...

It's so easy to say to someone "Oh, you just have to move on" or "That was ages ago, let it go" and platitudes like these. Someone is struggling to move on from someone's behaviour towards them and the effects are still in that person's psyche and affecting their own...

"Well I think I enjoyed it" was the response I received from a participant in YOUR Year End Review.  It made me laugh. YOUR Year End Review is an exercise I carry out with various groups I host at this time of the year. When everyone seems to be having their year...