Finding my way back to home, Love & intimacy, Resources
This is an exercise to help uncover our unconscious relationship history. Disclaimer: I apologise in advance…you’ll know why once you’ve done the exercise…(but you will be very happy you’ve done it!)… Instructions The exercise comes in 2...
Finding my way back to home
Excerpt from John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes: “There are no manuals for the construction of the individual you would like to become. You are the only one who can decide this and take up the lifetime of work that it demands. This is a wonderful privilege and...
Finding my way back to home, Reminders to self, The inner world
My encounter with this “ending of lockdown” experience started with the very welcome news that I had secured a new work contract (I haven’t had work since the end of March). I felt really relieved and happy and eager to get back to work, but also a...
Belonging, Finding my way back to home, Presence, The inner world
“Everyone longs for intimacy and dreams of a nest of belonging in which one is embraced, seen, and loved. “… John O Donohue on our longing to belong… “Our hunger to belong is the longing to find a bridge across the distance from isolation to...
Core survival skills, Reminders to self, Resources
A beautiful message from Marsha Linehan. She talks about 4 skills needed for building a life worth living/creating a life you want to live in this short video clip (below). Marsha is not a typical therapist and the work she does is very specific, however the more I...
Existential crisis, Impermanence, Ponderings, Waking up
I hear the term “unprecedented” everywhere. How unimaginable this current happening is. How unimaginable people’s subsequent reactions to it are. I hear panic and fear, not just of the virus, but of “Others” – the panic shoppers, the ignores of social...
Ego, Finding my way back to home, Inner critic, Ponderings, Reminders to self, Waking up
I hear a lot of use of this term “open hearted” being used in the community lately. Like it’s the goal. An absolute. An achievement & a badge of honour to how “enlightened” a person is. It seems to be used like a binary thing – a person is...
The inner world, Waking up
“This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.” “I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for...
Joy, Love & intimacy, Ponderings, When you need a giggle
The word tantra has the capacity to really get some people’s backs up. Like dropping it into a general conversation about spirituality and suddenly we’re on unchartered territory, both because we’re not really sure what it is, yet it feels like it should be...
Resources, The inner world, Waking up
Listened to this YouTube recording of a talk by poet & philosopher John O’Donohue last night and my brain kind of melted like a gorgeous gooey Galaxy chocolate bar of loveliness…Mmmmmm…and I woke up this morning still feeling the loveliness of his words…...
Ponderings, The inner world
“No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it.” ― John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic...
