M is for… Mabon – Celebrating the Autumn Equinox
Autumn has very definitely arrived, with the advent of mist, rain and cooler air after the heat of this summer... and as the air turns crisp and the leaves begin
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L is for… Listening – and Loneliness
Listen... do you want to know a secret...?
Well, it's not actually a secret, but it is something we seem to have forgotten, in this world of smart phones
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K is for… Knowledge
There is a kind of knowledge that lives in books and in facts; it's easy to acquire, and many of us spend a lot of time reading more books, and
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I is for… Insight, Inquiry and an Invitation
Aren't our minds weird…?
Well, mine certainly is, anyway! I woke up early yesterday, at around 4.30am, and I lay awake contemplating stuff.
A week or so ago, we had been looking
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H is for… Hope
There are many things I miss about living in Guernsey, and one of them is the flora that just doesn't grow in the wilds of North Yorkshire, where we've lived
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G is for… Grace – and Gratitude
I'm a big advocate of the power of meditation; I recommend it to my clients and my supervisees, and in these current times of chaos and upheaval, it seems as
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F is for Fear… and Faith
Most of us spend our lives caught between two quiet but powerful forces: fear and faith. They are the twin lenses through which we interpret the world, make decisions, and
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E is for Empathy…
Self-awareness is often portrayed as a solitary inward gaze - an intellectual or emotional self-examination; a self-inquiry... But what if becoming truly self-aware requires us to turn outward as well
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