Category: Articles
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Taking Time For Renewal and Connection
Happy August beautiful! What wonderful plans do you have for this month? Are you off with the kids? Are you taking it easy? Are you having a bit of a pull-back from your dreams? I am…kinda. I always find that my energy is not really in ‘doing’ in August – it’s a big holiday month…
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My Best Advice For Writing Your Book
A friend asked me for advice about writing her book. This was it: Start writing. Keep writing. Stop when you’re finished. I know that sounds a little basic, but it’s the best advice I have for you. Start. You can’t write a book unless you start. So start. Don’t wait to be ready (you’re never…
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Ride Out the Creative Turbulence
Last week I was super excited – I had an epiphany from my “Fill What is Not Full” post – I realised this was the container for the book I’ve been mulling on for 8 years or so about self-care and other great foundations for a fabulous life. The excitement continued all week…with ideas raging…
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Big Dreams Come True: Jenni Johnston Moved to China
Welcome to the ‘Big Dreams Come True’ interview series where I interview fabulous people (just like you!) about having their Big Dream come true. This month my guest is the lovely Jenni Johnston – a teacher and panda lover who followed her Big Dream and moved to China! Here’s Jenni’s story: What Big Dream have…
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Fill What is Not Full
I’ve realised lately that I’ve been chronically depleted. The signs were there…tiredness, trouble sleeping, not wanting to start work on a Monday, not getting to do my creative work til late, feeling joyless and lacking in energy. But of course, I have been ignoring the signs. Because I am extremely busy and important don’t you…
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When the World is Rocking, Centre Yourself
You may have heard (it’s been fairly big news) that here in the UK, we’ve voted to leave the EU. A seismic event. One that has caused much gnashing of teeth, rhetoric, ramble and bullshit (on all sides). Don’t worry, I’m not going to get into a political debate here. It’s not the place. But…
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Is Your Inner Drill Sergeant or Your Inner Wise Self in Charge?
Do you ever find yourself infighting within yourself between your Inner Drill Sergeant – go, go, do, do, get shit done, nose to the grindstone, sleeping’s cheating – and your inner wise self – connected, wise, loving, calm, peaceful. Inner Drill Sergeant wants you to get on with stuff, regardless of how you feel or…
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Big Dreams Come True: Catherine Ryan Howard
I’ve had the idea for YEARS to do a blog series about Big Dreams coming true – interviewing fabulous people (like you!) about having their Big Dream come true. Then Catherine Ryan Howard asked for help to launch her new book “Distress Signals”, and this seemed like the PERFECT time to launch the series. If…
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10 Tips to Recover from Failure
Failure is part of life. I don’t know anyone who’s succeeded in any field who hasn’t failed in some way. But we all feel as if failure is JUST US! It’s just us who feel the hurt and inadequacy of failure. This is partly because most people don’t share their failures out loud – they…
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Reach Your Potential for JOY!
I saw an advert this week for a program that will help you ‘find your purpose’ and ‘meet your full potential’ and I had a moment of reminiscing about when I was desperate to do both of those things. I really wanted to figure out what this life thing was all about – why was…