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Self discovery

Adventure

The Adventurous Spirit

What if you feel nudged to travel, yet are unsure if you’ve got what it takes? Developing an adventurous spirit… it’s simply a mindset. Freedom I remember a morning… driving

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Adventure

There’s no limit…

‘There’s no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us’. Charles M Schwab Travel offers so much joy, so many wonderful adventures and, when times get tough, facing

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Self discovery

Lessons along the way

Before I even set off from Vanuatu, I have to admit … I got the collywobbles. I wasn’t setting off on holiday, I was letting go of an attachment to

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Self discovery

Why this journey?

Last week I wrote about the experience of leaving Vanuatu and finding myself in Rarotonga. You might ask ‘why’ – why do this, why this journey – and perhaps you

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Self discovery

Becoming fearless

Sometimes on your journey, you feel uncertain…you just don’t know what next, what to do. It happened for me recently. A few weeks ago, I set off from Vanuatu on

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Self discovery

Time

A great journey needs time, it shouldn’t be rushed. If it is, it becomes like a package tour with no substance, no real beauty or meaning…there’s so much moving around,

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Self discovery

Where to start?

Where to start your journey? Often when you travel you start by focusing on the destination. However, when you focus solely on the destination, you run the risk of putting

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Self discovery

A call to adventure

This month we’re talking about the journey, your personal journey… to discovering who you are and living from your true nature. I must admit that one the great joys in

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Joy

A story of joy

The one thing, for me, that blocks the joy on your journey is worry…worry about money, worry about security, the need to protect yourself. Yet, the funny thing is, you

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Joy

Like a bud becoming a rose…

The greatest story is arguably the story of the journey to your heart, the journey home to who you really are…something that is there all the time, that offers the

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Self discovery

Is it real or imagination?

Perception is a wonderful thing, isn’t it, it’s simply the way you see things… and you can change it in a nanosecond. You can write a new story! When you

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Acceptance

What story do you tell yourself…

This month we’re looking at stories – the stories you tell yourself about your family, about growing up, your life, about who you are. Stories are wonderful, aren’t they, and

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Acceptance

Born to be real, not perfect

Are you someone who’s been who you thought you should be for years and years and now you’re beginning to realise it’s not who you really are – you’ve just

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Acceptance

Trying to impress

The other day I remembered hearing a song that used to be on the radio when I was little – Lonnie Donergan’s song “Putting on the agony, putting on the

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Acceptance

Accept not knowing

Are you willing to say you just don’t know…you don’t know who you are any more, or what to do? Learning to be ok with not knowing…it can be scary,

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Change

Dig deep

Still looking at being willing to change…looking for external validation and approval can be something that gets in the way of listening to your intuition and ultimately being yourself. External

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Change

Willingness

With awareness comes choice and personal responsibility – for your energy and how you interact with others. Of course, if you want to change something, you need to start with

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Change

Taking steps

One of the most common barriers to being willing to change is the need to feel secure – you’ve got to admit it, most of us like to feel comfortable.

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Acceptance

Awake to your intuition

Like our emotional triggers, our mind can also play games with us. It can have us worry about this and that, debate what’s right or wrong, argue about what we

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Awareness

Awareness of your triggers.

Awareness is what you need when you want to learn to recognise your emotional triggers….what tweaks your buttons when you find yourself feeling upset, freezing or reacting strongly, then wondering

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Awareness

Awareness and challenges

Developing awareness and self knowledge, there are so many benefits. Understanding why you feel a certain way helps you to respond rather than react… decision making becomes easier because you

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Awareness

Awareness of your energy

In terms of energy, for some of us it’s generally steady and consistent, for others it can vary a lot, be up and down, a bit like a yoyo. Exploring

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Awareness

Awareness

Happy New Year to you! A new year, new energy… what’s possible for you? This month we’re looking at awareness which for me is where it all starts when you

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Acceptance

Finding the treasure

Exploring who you really are … I see it as a journey to open and connect with everything inside you. The journey begins with self awareness and finding the wisdom

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Confidence

Is it true?

There are so many benefits to being yourself and feeling confident in being who you are that sometimes you wonder why you ever tried to be someone you thought you

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Choice

Standing strong in who you are

Becoming self aware, getting to know you…it’s a process, a journey…and like most adventures, it’s great to have fun, and, to rest from time to time and do whatever you

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Awareness

Being yourself

This month we’re looking at fidelity… in terms of being yourself. We’ve all heard the saying ‘To Thine Own Self Be True’ which is perhaps a bit cliché. It can

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Change

Keep on keeping on

Being mentally tough, tough in the sense of not giving up, persisting under pressure, is important in working though any stress or change and it builds resilience. How do you

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Appearance

Freedom…from judgement

When you don’t feel equal, when you don’t feel safe, it’s easy to hide your feelings, to hide behind a veneer and play a role that’s not who you really

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Appearance

A shell of protection

Still talking about being seen naked….  when you’re naked, you can’t hide what you don’t like about yourself. So, if somewhere inside you judge yourself, you think you are bad

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Appearance

Being seen naked

We’ve all heard the expression ‘don’t judge by appearances’, and yet how many of us do it? Its easy to form opinions according to our perception, our mind attaches labels,

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Acceptance

Playing with your shadow

Walking along the beach the other day, I found myself looking at my shadow. With the sun at my back, it seemed so much bigger than me…then when I turned

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Change

A spur to change

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I can hit a point in life where I look around and find that I seem to have what I want, however I

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Acceptance

Different filters

Talking about how we experience life… we each have a different filter according to our experiences, we see things with a different lens, and, sometimes what we think to be

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Acceptance

How you experience life

Talking about the journey, what I’m seeing is it’s about how you experience life…and everyone’s experience is different. Do you focus on what’s missing, or, the joy of what’s present?

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