A few weeks ago, I was delivering a workshop on emotional resilience when I received a phone call that stopped me in my tracks and threw me into a vortex of events, emotions, and ultimately,…
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On the impermanence of life.
Every day of the week I walk in the forest next to my home. Every day the forest looks and feels different, even if it seems unchanged. The leaves, the branches, the trees, the moss……
grief is love
please note the below text mentions grief, death and loss of a loved one ‘Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant’ wrote American writer Joan Didion when she wrote about her husband’s sudden death….
on change.
You will be a different person by the time you will have finished reading this short post. Whether you like it or not, you will have changed. Your body will change on a cellular level…
insecurity
‘Perhaps the truth depends on the walk around the lake’ wrote Wallace Stevens in one of his most famous poems. In my case it was actually the river that lead me to my moment of…
On courage
On courage
Where’s Your Ithaca?
As you set out for Ithaka / hope your road is a long one / full of adventure, full of discovery’ are the opening lines of a poem ‘Ithaka’ by C.P. Cavafy. Ithaka being a Greek island and poem inspired by the Homer’s Odyssey.
Can we start again? Can You start again?
Have you ever felt that things fall apart?
I have. And I know quite a few people who experienced that as well.
The shifting shape of confidence
‘What does confidence feel /mean / look to you?’
‘When was the last time you felt confident?’
‘What gives you confidence?’
What’s holding you back?
What’s holding you back? How can you overcome it? What’s holding me back is often me. This is also what I hear from a lot of people. That’s why it’s so hard to change the…