Over the years I have had many conversations with both clients and friends about meditation and mindfulness. In my line of work both of these are things that I come across on a regular basis whether it’s with individuals, or working on retreats, or reading about different ways to deal Read more…
It goes without saying that at the beginning of every year we are bombarded with the New Year new you messages, we are prompted to diet, to exercise, to make new year’s resolutions, we are expected to be incredibly optimistic for the year ahead. I am optimistic for the year Read more…
I wrote this blog whilst sat on the beach watching my dog digging like his life depended on it – I can assure you it doesn’t. I had a week off last week and I didn’t go anywhere but I needed the time, I needed the time not only to Read more…
I think I can safely say that I’m speaking for the majority when I say that everyone is feeling a bit crap! Two years, it’s been two years, two years in our lives that none of us were expecting or prepared for and now it seems not only was Read more…
Make lots of honey, lemon & ginger drinks and hope that it makes you feel better! As you will all know by now, I like a plan! In fact, I like to plan for my plans, I feel much happier when I have a plan and when the plan doesn’t Read more…
I think we can safely say we’ve all had them, a Bridget Jones moment that is! Looking back over my teenage years I lived with a mum who believed in self improvement in a big big way, she read the books, she did the courses, she read more books and Read more…
Personally, I am somebody who absolutely loves buying presents it gives me a huge amount of pleasure from the thinking up of what to buy, to actually going out and purchasing the gift and then wrapping it carefully so that it looks beautiful, I’ve always loved buying presents. However, as Read more…
Yes, I’ve said it, I’ve said that Christmas word and I’m not sorry! For all of those people now throwing their hands up in horror that I’ve mentioned Christmas in the month of October many of you will be the same people that will have conversations with me in December Read more…
Walking is my thing, it’s always been my thing. Even as a small child it was my thing – to calm me, to get me to sleep, I was walked.As I got older and hit my teens and life became more of a struggle whenever I was stressed or anxious Read more…
Positivity – what does that actually mean? Well the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “the state or character of being positive:a positivity that accepts the world as it is.” As a coach, one of the first words we come across in our training is the word positive. We are Read more…