We only need to be courageous when we are afraid
It’s that time of year again, and like every year, I am still catching my breath from my birthday in October. Let’s take a moment together, to slow down, right down, to this present moment… Take a deep breath in… and breathe out twice as long… ...
When Did We Lose Self Trust? And how to start bringing it back
When did we begin to lose trust in ourselves, our own judgement, our own ability to commit, our determination to make things work? I may not have a direct answer to this question, exactly, however I would speculate that there was probably a moment, likely sometime...
The Road To Peace Is Paved With Anger
Expressing anger is a part of healthy boundaries Rage rooms have become a thing, even here is blissed out Cape Town bru… the concept is quite simple, you get given a baseball bat and some safety goggles, and ushered into a room where you can go ham, smashing up old...
The Reasons People Change… It’s probably not what you think.
I was going through my notes on my phone this morning to see whether there was anything that could spark an idea for my email to you this week - I’ve made a promise to myself to maintain a minimum required devotion to my company no matter what may be going on for me...
Starting With The End In Mind
We’ve just entered the final quarter of the year. That last stretch were everyone will be vying for your attention, adding demands and deadlines, where expectations are at an all-time high. The pressure is mounting from ourselves and for ourselves. Will we get...
Self-Development is a Life-Long Devotion
Gosh this week has been something… it is just me? I’m lying in a hot detox bath with a glass of wine right now journaling through some heavy topics that have been on my mind recently. Honestly, I thought I had dealt with all of this, and yet here we are feeling the...
Meet Your Future Self, A Guided Process
In the final months in the year it may be worthwhile to create a juicy Future Self Progression, meaning we get to mentally rehearse the experience we would like to have going forward. Let’s think about that for a moment, allowing your mind to wonder while you read…...
Let’s talk BOUNDARIES
I’ve known intellectually for a long time that vulnerability is a strength, but it was not until I took my fingers to a keyboard and expressed this candidly, and relatively publicly, did I truly felt the effects of this… strength in vulnerability Sooo, you may be...
Let’s Admit Sometimes We Enjoy Feeling Bad
Our nervous systems have basically been coded to constantly be in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn which ultimately has us set on anxiety non-stop. We are inundated with media, marketing, and messaging about how much threat we are under and how unlikely and unable we...
I’ve been anxious! …and this is what I do about it.
You probably view me as strong and confident. These are the two words most people use to describe me. I would probably use sensitive and introspective. This seems completely contradictory, and I guess most likely a case of both/and. Last week I wrote to you about how...
