Love is …. Gold for Warts
So if it is true we can’t love our children any more than we can love ourselves -how do we practice self-love and what are warts and gold to do with it? We are always [...]
Has motherhood changed you?
I'd love to hear your experiences - here is why... Mary Cassatt - Rosenwald Collection When I became a mother the whole axis of my life shifted. I was knocked sideways by [...]
Inner child by Rachel Merrington
It came to me the other night while imagining all the love I pour into my children, all the effort of trying so hard to get it right for them. I considered the intensity with [...]
I needed to reintroduce creativity into my life…
Helen Hunter has recently launched 'colourful beautiful things' a website, showcase and blog that features beautifully designed and lovingly made things. For me her website is the perfect Artists' date - an ideal way [...]
As an artist I …
The wonderful Julia Cameron uses this phrase as a prompt and so to great effect have the 'Creative Writing meets Life Coaching for Mothers' group. Here is a piece written by Nell Aurelia which we [...]
Passion by Proxy – Tatiana Cant
Photo by Selby Thomas Right now I have as much passion as a tiny, intrepid fish trapped in a little rock pool on the edge of a gushing river. The cool waters [...]
“The minute I walked into the community choir, started singing and heard the sound of 40 people singing in harmony together I felt truly born again” Helen Yeomans
"When I was at school I was persuaded to take an academic path and somehow ended up with a degree in Geography. This was followed by careers in fashion retailing and buying [...]
Tired of set-backs obscuring your new horizon?
What happens to our courageous convictions when we have one too many set backs? Since mid January my world has been blighted by family illnesses, lots of them. My conviction that I needed to let [...]
Being made redundant was my saving grace…
Need inspiration to take that leap? Anna Stewart, who runs her own catering business Cuisine Maison, tells us how she made the leap from being stuck in a job she didn’t enjoy to running a [...]
When your New Year’s resolutions become another ‘to do list’. How about the permaculture approach to personal change?
This New Year I didn’t make any resolutions. Obviously as a life and career coach I have thought a fair bit about the things I’d like to see in 2012 but I didn’t do resolutions. Then [...]