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To love oneself
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance” Oscar Wilde So I thought I had finished writing about love but it turns out there is something else that wants to be expressed, and that is about self love. Now I know this is something we hear all the time, something that is trotted…
Thoughts about love ~ Part 3
Love without conditions If you are trying to find the “perfect” version of love outside of yourself, you will be continually frustrated and your experience will always fall short. How much time do you spend being present in your relationship or is the mind wandering off finding fault with it, wishing that it looked as…
Thoughts about love ~ Part 2
Mind reading and expectation- Insecure thinking is a trickster. It tells us we have to look a certain way to be loved. It tells us we need to be a type of person to be loved. It encourages us to read magazine articles on how to be “The type of woman men can’t resist” or…
Thoughts about love~ Part 1
There is so much I can write on this subject so I am going to cover some of it here, in Part 1 and continue next week. L.O.V.E. It is said that love is joyful; that it brings romance, fulfilment, pleasure and happiness into our lives. It is also said that love is painful; that…
Planning your holiday?
In these days of busy work/home lives it can often seem as if a break away from it all will bring us some peace and respite. A chance to unwind and relax away from our everyday schedule. However there is something that we take with us that can often prevent that from being the case-…
Defining Moments
Once upon a time there was a little girl who used to love watching her Mother cook. Every time it was steak for lunch she watched in curiosity as her Mother would take the piece of steak and trim all the edges off until it was a circle. The little girl couldn’t understand why she…
You think you’ve got problems!
What if I told you the only problem you had, was that you believed that you had problems? Bear with me. Has it ever occurred to you that your problems don’t exist unless you think you have a problem? And even if the same circumstances are a really big problem for someone else, if you…
The “I will be happy when….” place
How many of us suffer from destination addiction? It is the preoccupation that life will somehow be better when we have found the love of our life, lost weight or we have moved jobs, or bought a new house, or have more money in the bank or a new……(you fill in the blanks). And then…
The Monster that lived in the wardrobe
Do you remember when you were a child, some of the things that you believed to be true? I used to have an old wardrobe in my bedroom made of Walnut. The grain in the wood was such that I could see faces in the wood- eyes looking at me as I tried to fall…
Follow the feeling
It is a fact, that if everyone who enrolled at a gym at this time of year turned up, the queue to use the treadmill would be half way down the road. It’s the season to “should” all over ourselves and set goals that we are destined to fail at yet again, so my advice…