What is your normal? I remember the first one very clearly. Sitting on the grass of in the back garden of my house with my best friend from school. It was awful. Retchingly, wretchedly awful. That smoke hitting the throat, the coughing, the gasping for oxygen, the...
A friend and student in my yoga class arrived in the class really hassled. ‘God I’m so busy. I’m rushing from one thing to the next and I left the house an absolute tip.’ She did the class and went home. I bumped into her the next morning. She said with wide eyes ‘Its...
The music comes on and the three year olds start dancing. Jumping and twirling and laughing and bouncing and falling around. They can’t help it. Because music is playing. As a coach from the inside out understanding I spend my time pointing my clients towards the fact...
One of the obvious and inevitable outcomes of seeing more clearly that our experience is created by thought in the moment is that we become increasingly comfortable with feeling uncomfortable. All of those thoughts that used to floor me before still come and go, I...
Imagine that you are driving and you bump another car. The other driver gets out of the car in full rage. You have no control over what this driver will do. She is a separate human being. She could do anything. You also have no control over the thoughts that appear in...
Flow is an excellent thing. Whether it is the flow of love. ideas, laughter, champagne, poetry, streams, products, good will, conversation, energy, money, oxygen, rivers, wildebeest, juices, writing, air, electricity, offers... Or, for those of us who might be...
We needed IVF to have our children. For the second pregnancy, having tried every other conceivable (or, rather, not) option, we went to a controversial clinic in London (so controversial it had been investigated on BBC’s Panorama, not generally a good way to choose...
It's a famous quote from Hamlet. People have it tattooed on every conceivable part of their bodies (google images...). It's on instagram, pinterest, facebook posts everyday. It's stamped on planks of wood and hung on walls all over the world. One website describes it...
Here's a little questionnaire for you: Do you spend your time with the people that deep down in your soul you know you are here to spend time with? Do you delight in listening in to the wisdom that guides you moment to moment? Do you act on this wisdom to create,...
This week was the school swimming gala. Some of the kids were like little dolphins gracefully and powerfully making their way down the pool. Others made the most tremendous amount of effort, legs and arms flailing and fitfully made it, exhausted and...