In a group conversation this week, we used a lot of metaphors to describe where we felt we stood at present. I used a phrase from Leonard Cohen’s poem/song Atheum ‘There’s a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. I feel, I’m beginning to see the [...]
The title of this piece is a paraphrase of what Rick Steiner, PhD says, which is ‘Plans are ‘hopes’ waiting to happen’. Right now, your dreams may be small and generous, such as hoping /praying that the predictions for deaths in this pandemic are wrong, that there will be a [...]
Changes are happening day by day in these challenging times. How are you doing? Me, I have had a couple of days where I had slight meltdowns, panic as clients pull out of contracts, worried about their financial health, or feeling that they just aren’t able to focus on issues [...]
I was travelling last week, and at the airport met a number of people I hadn’t seen for ages. Which tells me I need to go to the airport more! At the first airport, one of the friends I met, talked of a friend of his who had ‘been retired’. [...]
In the previous blog I spoke of fear, and the impact the ‘fear effect’ can have on us, both in mind, and throughout our body. Your greatest fear: Recently I asked on a number of 50+ women’s forums; ‘What is your greatest fear in growing old?’ The two highest responses [...]
Fear of: Not being brave, or of being timid; violence or being dismissed, ignored or laughed at. Being seen as of little worth or not interesting to those you want to like you. What about fear of being invisible or being alone, judged as a bad parent? Or in your [...]
Happy New Year and Welcome 2020! If you are among the many of us that made resolutions this New Year, how are you feeling about them now, a few days into 2020? What are your resolutions and why are they important to you? Too many people declare that they are [...]
As I sit and write, Christmas tradition dictates listening to the wonderful Dylan Thomas and his “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”, not my usual version taped in a noisy pub in the early 50’s, but rather a clearer version, as in my cleaning and clearing, I seem to have misplaced [...]
This is a different blog to the one I was going to write. I began to write about the rush to purchase gifts for all and sundry, purchases made because we need to, ‘it’s expected’. Gifts purchased without much thought about who that person may be, what would they love, [...]
Recently I had the opportunity to meet a number of people I’ve only met and worked with online. It was interesting. If we think of people having different facets, on-line shows perhaps only 50 % of a person’s personality, like photographs it’s one sided. And so, when we meet in [...]
