It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to…that was my anthem for my 25th birthday. When I turned 25 I had a bit of a meltdown – I called it a quarter life crisis. I cried at my party, into my glass of red, and continued to for the week that followed. I had so many things that I had planned to achieve before turning 30 and...
One of the most proactive actions we can take towards improving our emotional and general wellbeing is to learn how to become more forgiving. We’ve all suffered hurts and harboured resentments towards another at some time. The key point here is that if the hurt occurred at some time other than now and if we still...
The other morning I was getting dressed for work, with my phone in one hand texting a photographer about a client photo shoot planned for later in the day, coffee cup in the other, with my mind on everything other than what I was doing at that particular moment in time. Now tripping up the stairs and spilling my...
When we are charged with negative emotion and resist experiencing the emotion fully we are unable to process it and let it go. Any unprocessed emotion then becomes part of who we think we are and we identify with that emotion which then becomes part of the “all about me” story. If, however, we manage to remain mindful...
You have clearly identified your goals, specifically written them down, given them a soft deadline and you are following all the basic rules I have outlined in previous blogs – right? BUT without the MAIN ingredient, which so very many people neglect, you are still one step from greatness. That key ingredient is to...
“One of the worst things you can do is kill somebody’s TA-DA!” I’ll never forget these words spoken by the amazing Amanda Gore. Amanda was a keynote speaker at a conference I was managing back in 2009. I have listened to hundreds of guest speakers over the years and Amanda’s speech really stuck with me. Amanda’s an...
Banana and oats baked together make easy breakfast cookies that taste like yummy banana bread and the kids will absolutely love them. They are simple, tasty and nutritious. I love getting into the kitchen with my little ones and they have a ball helping me make these cookies. Ingredients 2 large bananas, mashed 2 cups...
What is compassion? Compassion is a loving vibration that is nourishing and healing to all that it touches. We all have within us the ability to generate compassion without and within. As the Dalai Lama says: “Within all beings there is the seed of perfection. However, compassion is required in order to activate...
Meditation is one of the best tools to balance our emotions and let go of stress and tension…that is until you get so frustrated with the incessant thoughts running through your head that it defeats the purpose of meditating. I have always struggled to meditate. My brain goes a million miles an hour and I used to get...
The average woman puts over 40 different avoidable carcinogenic ingredients onto her body daily. This results in over 14,600 carcinogenic exposures annually! These concoctions come in the form of soap, shampoo & conditioner, deodorant, facial products (cleanser, toner, moisturizer), hair products (gel, mud, mousse,...
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