Our first Grid retreat is a success
News from our first Grid retreat where we work on helping people construct healthy and deeply fulfilling lives that encourage their best expression.
How to move forward towards your goals when you feel blocked
Do you find it hard to complete things? It may be a DIY project you started or another creative endeavor that you were super excited about. It can even be something that needs doing like your business accounts or a project with an immovable deadline. We have all been there! Something needs to be finished…
Book Corner – Feb 2019 Recommendation
February Highly Recommended Read This month’s recommended book is Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and Hope to Find Hope by Johann Hari. You can watch Johann in conversation with Decca Aitkenhead, interviewer for the Guardian from a Thursday lecture at the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) below. This is a beautiful, deeply…
How I befriended my inner critic and you can too
What critics do? We all have an inner critic. Critics tend to: Get in the way of our aspirations and potential success. Evaluate us from the sidelines without doing any actual work! Judge us and our feelings, behaviours, and actions. Sometimes even judge our entire self as in, “You’re just all bad, worthless, a loser”.…
Strategies for Personal Growth and Development as well as Career Success
Personal growth: where to start I was recently interviewed as a speaker for the Association for Coaching national conference Time to Develop. One of the interview questions concerned the need for everyone to take time out for personal growth and self development. In my experience building career and leadership programmes for many different professionals as…
Achieve personal success part 1
“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.” – Lawrence Block Needs are things that are either essential or very important for healthy life. For example as an organism, humans need oxygen to breathe, live and…
Getting unstuck and taking control of your life and career with CHOICE
It’s been a busy month writing invited blogs which is such a joy. This blog written for Clinfield – an organisation that is championing and actively supporting career development for research practitioners and especially nurses in UK – came as a result of putting together an exciting new programme that I will be offering around…
Trans-forming: finding and practicing self-love
Last month I wrote this blog for Psychology Tomorrow site in New York. I came across the magazine by chance and right away loved the form, style and the combination of the art and psychology in it. It’s so inviting and stimulating. I invite you to check it out for yourself. Be inspired. Be moved.…
Can a cheese plate really help us beat the blues? Surprising insights about the power of the present
We all have days when life seems blue. We get a piece of news that’s not great and then our mind recalls another related event or thought, and then it beautifully projects a fear into the future and before we know it, we’re feeling less than enthusiastic about the future. Well, that was how I…
Cornish coast signs
For centries many cultures believed in signs. For example native American Indians viewed all things (living and dead) as having a spirit and a meaning. Listening to the signs was an integral part of Indian life. I have never tried this out for myself, though on many occasions I experienced a deep feeling, call it…