Category: Articles

  • Stop Pretending to Be Superwoman

    Stop Pretending to Be Superwoman

    WARNING! This article contains swearing…if you don’t like bad language, please read no further! Last week, I posted about the gap between fantasy and reality, and shared some of the problems I’ve had since I’ve been here in Tenerife. There are those who think I should not share this stuff, either from some odd belief…

  • OnTheBeach: The Freedom to Drive Your Life

    Manal Al-Sharif is a Saudi woman who dared to drive in a society that believes women driving leads to prostitution, rape and moral decay. She dared to challenge her society and do something that is not actually against the law in Saudi Arabia, it is just frowned upon by society. It’s a really interesting and…

  • OnTheBeach: Put Your Hand Up

    So many people have asked me in the past couple of months, since the opportunity to dogsit for 6 weeks in the Canaries came up, “How did you wangle that?!?!” (most people didn’t say wangle, but it’s a great word, and it captures the essence of the question perfectly!) In short, I volunteered. I happened…

  • Guest Post: Weeding and Clearing the Garden

    – Weeding and Clearing the Garden – Guest Post from Sue from Magnolias West. Lessons in focus Today I will be clearing some of the big, thick, thorny blackberry vines that are keeping me from the beautiful, sweet, ripening, plump berries, and doing some weeding. Clearing out the blackberries, now that’s a shero’s task. They…

  • Setting Yourself Up For Success With Great Self-Care

    I have noticed that for every one of my clients, if their self-care and energy is weak, their life is harder and their goals more difficult to achieve. If they feel cared for and energised, many of the seeming problems disappear! Life is easier, more fun, doors seem to open with greater regularity and ease…and…

  • OnTheBeach: Be Fully, Beautifully, Unashamedly You

    OnTheBeach: Be Fully, Beautifully, Unashamedly You

    I was reading this post by Leonie Dawson, and I just loved how fully, beautifully, unashamedly Leonie she is. She makes no apology for who she is, what she does, and what she likes. Her sacred mantra: if they don’t like it/me, fuckem! I love this woman – I have been a member of her…

  • Are You Allowed to Have An Off Day?

    Are You Allowed to Have An Off Day?

    I had an off day on Monday. A grumpy, tired, don’t wanna get up, don’t wanna do anything, whiny, bitchy, glum, cantankerous, irritable, disagreeable kind of day. What made it a full Day of Disagreeable was the fact that I resisted it all day long. I really should know better – I teach this stuff.…

  • OnTheBeach: What is Your Big Dream?

    What is your Big Dream? What do you really want for your life? What do you daydream about? What are your heart and soul whispering to you? What is it that makes your eyes go round and your mind whisper “I could have THAT, I could do that? Really? Wow”. What’s your Big Dream? Clarity…

  • May Daily Practice: Listen to Your Soul

    Happy May everyone! As I write this, I am sitting in the glorious May sunshine, the cold and April showers forgotten (for today at least!) – a Happy May 1st for me indeed! I chose this month’s Daily Practice last week, when I was reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (for about the 8th time).…

  • OnTheBeach: Wake Up It’s a Beautiful Morning

    What do you wake up to? Do you wake up to the news telling you that it’s a depressing day in a depressing world? Do you wake up to some irritating idiot who thinks he’s funny? Do you wake up to a jarring beep-beep-beep-beep? Or do you wake up to something that fills you with…