Trauma Response

Trauma Response

When we experience trauma, our survival instincts kick in. Sometimes we replay the events over and over, trying to work out exactly what happened, why and how it could have been prevented. We try to understand it. Other times we withdraw. We tell ourselves it’s...
Mirrors

Mirrors

Your reaction to peoples’ behaviour is a mirror into your soul. Your triggers are signposts towards unhealed parts of yourself – the parts you often deny; the parts that are often linked to not feeling good enough. You can choose to be grateful for these...
Trust

Trust

I’ve been playing around a lot with the idea of trust recently and this is where I’ve ended up. I am often asked, how do I learn to trust? I don’t know if it is a learning, but more a doing: a decision. At some point, you must take a leap of faith....
Feelings

Feelings

If you think you need to change your feelings depending on whether on not someone can handle them, please stop. Your feelings are your feelings. They are not symbiotic with another person’s pain or happiness. Your feelings are just that: how you feel. They do...
Your ‘perfect’, is perfect

Your ‘perfect’, is perfect

Every now and again I question if I’m doing ‘enough’ in the world; if I’m making enough ‘waves’ or big choices. There are people I’ve counselled and coached doing such incredible things in the world and I think for a minute,...
Choices

Choices

We have the greatest gift in that we get to choose, in each moment, to live in the past, or the present. We get to choose to bring our memories, our experiences, our pain and our judgements into the now, or leave them where they were.We get to choose how to experience...