Activate Your Intuition The conscious mind is busy, running at a hundred miles an hour, busy calculating, planning, worrying and judging. The intuitive mind is much calmer, connected to the whole body, feels loving and light. This inner knowing …
Asking and Listening
One of my children has been struggling with anger. Over the Easter holidays she asked me to help her. “Mummy, please teach me how to not be angry when I have to do my chores”. Together we did some breathing …
Healing on My Dog Oli
Oli is a beautiful, gentle, 13-year-old, 30 kilo Labrador. I like to call her my first baby. Lance and I woke up to the sound of her panting at 5am, and went to check if she was okay. She wasn’t. …
Creativity and Big Magic
With my focus this year on creativity, and my goal of reading a book a week, ‘Big Magic’ seemed like the logical place to start. I listened to it, and straight away started to listen to it again. It is …
The 7 Habits
My children have spent the last three years participating in ‘The Leader in Me’ program at their school based on the best-selling book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ by Stephen Covey. Over this time I have heard them …
Transforming Relationships
We all know how it is at Christmas when families come together. Hopefully there is lots of fun and connection, but sometimes there are one or two that drive you mad. We know that what we focus on grows. In …
The Myth of Divine Punishment
Most of us have grown up with an image of the Divine as a punishing, all seeing God. A God that sees us hit our brother or take an extra sweet as a child. There is a feeling of always …
The Gift of Joy
Joy is a vibrational state that we need to follow. For most of us it is not a natural state, but something we catch glimpses of when out with friends, or dancing wildly alone to music, or looking at your …
Relationship Hot House
Time and time again in the psychotherapy study I am doing it seems CONNECTION is key. But it can be easy in the honeymoon phase, and tricky later, or they never seem to last. We will be exploring: relationships in …
Conscious Parenting – Part 1
Over the next few weeks I am going to share with you some tips for Conscious Parenting. I am learning as I go, and do not profess to be the perfect parent (if such a thing exists), I try …