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...
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...
Finding my way back to home, Ponderings, Presence, Reminders to self, Waking up
A new(-ish) year’s resolution It’s not new year, but it’s still early enough in the year to allow oneself to create a “new year’s” resolution. And in that vein I have decided on a new new(-ish) year’s resolution: Do Less. Do less. Expect less of myself. Halt all...
Core survival skills, Finding my way back to home, Reminders to self
Don’t wait until the shit really hits the fan to begin…. It’d be easy to decide someone is a “strong” person, or not “strong. That resilience is a thing a person “has”, or does not have, or that coping/mental/emotional...