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Finding Your Voice

Finding Your Voice

I had so much to say. I just didn’t know how to say it. I had been through years of profound personal change, and I had learnt so much. There had been times when I was angry that what I had to learn hadn’t been easy to find when I needed it most. I’d had to piece it...

Your Unequivocal Yes!

Your Unequivocal Yes!

Nothing made any sense until I became an unequivocal yes to myself.  Not as easy as it sounds. It requires considerable self-worth and a decent dose of forgiveness of self and others. It demands a level of trust that I had never experienced and an ego-crushing dose of...

What Within You Seeks Expression?

What Within You Seeks Expression?

It's May and Britain is in bloom. It’s one of the ways that nature expresses herself. Her effortless beauty takes my breath away. It has me pondering what within us seeks its natural expression. For years I struggled to find my voice and to trust that my creative...

Change to become more of who you really are

Change to become more of who you really are

While I fought to control the process of personal change, I struggled. We can continue to be General Manager of the universe, holding on tight and micromanaging what is no longer working for us, or we can soften and surrender to something exquisitely more aligned to...

Dropping Your Trump Card

Dropping Your Trump Card

It’s late Spring in the UK. The cold, grey winter is more distant in our memory and though we are not yet feeling the Summer warmth of the sun on our skin, it’s a time of renewal and hope. We feel called to throw open the windows, get rid of clutter and let the fresh...

Change is an inside job

Change is an inside job

I’m super ambitious, but not everyone would know that. Maybe it’s because I don’t aspire to the ‘success at any cost’ way of being and I never have. Nonetheless, onlookers might consider me to fit the ‘overachiever’ category. I have an ego placating collection of...

Breaking the all in/I’m out cycle

Breaking the all in/I’m out cycle

I used to run a pattern that meant life was either a flurry of frantic commitment to a goal or a complete withdrawal from what I knew I ‘should’ be doing. It led me to feelings of hopelessness, overwhelm and despair. This unresourceful state lasted until I could...

Acceptance is the ultimate adventure

Acceptance is the ultimate adventure

I used to think that having to accept something was a form of defeat. It seemed to me that acceptance was enforced compromise; you had to do it, if in the face of striving for something else you had fallen short of the mark.    I’m not a fan of compromise. I believe...

Is spiritual at odds with successful?

Is spiritual at odds with successful?

In salaried employment, professional success is usually measured by the extent to which we meet the targets and objectives we are set. I considered myself to be pretty successful in my salaried career, largely because I found it satisfying to deliver on what was...

Spiralling Upwards

Spiralling Upwards

Each week in The Wisdom of Change blog series, I share the original artwork and unpack the insights and meaning behind one of the 44 cards in The Wisdom of Change oracle deck. This week’s card is 28 Spiralling UpwardsWhen we seek to change something that isn’t working...

Ask For Help

Ask For Help

Each week in The Wisdom of Change blog series, I share the original artwork and unpack the insights and meaning behind one of the 44 cards in The Wisdom of Change oracle deck. This week’s card is 37 Ask For HelpThe wisdom in this card arrived with me at a time when I...