I had a really interesting watsap chat with my friend in Australia on Wednesday morning. (Sometimes I love the time difference, especially when I am awake at ungodly hours😲) I won’t go into the whole conversation, but the gist of it was something along the lines of “choosing” our words carefully and how they can …
Category: Psychology
The Value of Emotions
Years ago, when I started life coaching, I also started seeing a therapist at roughly the same time. One day I remember very excitedly coming to tell him that I had started doing “positive” affirmations every day to change all my “negative thinking” he very gently said, “It’s not always as easy as that, Gayle.” …
Day 33: Be Brave Challenge – ‘The Ultimate Super Power’
So I have been waking up at 4 am for the last two days again… Can’t seem to understand the correlation to me feeling happy and then my body thinking “whoohooo I don’t quite need sleep anymore.” (Note to body: you do!) And I feel flu-like symptoms approaching, exactly one day after I joked with …
Day 31: Be Brave Challenge – Falling off the Gratitude Wagon
This morning I woke up feeling like I’d just slept under a thundercloud.😤Tried to meditate, but it didn’t work, so I picked up my ‘ morning pages’ book that has been relatively untouched for the last…mmmm..28 days. Decided maybe I should start writing again…😓 (Clearly I haven’t reached equanimity status just yet.🤔) Then I decided to …
Day 14: Be Brave Challenge – The Enneagram Part 1
I have always been an incredibly up/down type of person. When I was in my late 20s, I seriously thought I might be bipolar….in hindsight, I had little understanding of how debilitating real manic depression was….but for me at the time it still felt overwhelming. (Ummm…of course, it didn’t help that I was fuelling myself …
Make a Choice
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them” ― Denis Waitley Two years ago I attended a weekend spiritual retreat with an absolutely incredible woman called Natalia Baker. (Most definitely an experience.) Right at the end of the weekend after I had been …
The Art of Shutting up.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley I have my very own psychologist … I feel so grown up. His name is Konrad. I have successfully been seeing him for just over 2.5 years now. ( I’m sure this will come as …