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Acceptance runs deeper than words
So much of my ideas around time revolve around doing things. This meeting or that activity measured in certain amounts of time. I put aside time to do things and then fill it with…
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Dreaming the deeper dream
This will make it 3 of 3 and I know in writing this I am also leaving out a whole lot that could be included. That's the nature of this creative project, it always involves loss….
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Vision quest part 1 – Introduction
When I first heard about a vision quest, I was young. It sounded like a terrible idea even though I knew it was a respectable thing to do. I mostly feared that I wasn’t made out…
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The Runners and the Stayers
My brother and I have often called my mother out on running. She is the kind of person who doesn’t stay still for very long. She has always been a mother with…
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Why Write?
I’ve been thinking about writing a lot lately. Over the past five years I’ve run a number of writing groups, and there hasn’t been one where people haven’t struggled to write. Sometimes…
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The Person You Think You Have to Be
Imagine carrying around a picture of the person you believe you should be, and then forgetting that you’re carrying it. The picture fades into the background, but it never really leaves. Part…
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Meet Your Inner Critics
The characters you may not even know are there, each with their own view of the world and their own ideas about what you need. We all have an inner world populated…
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The Critic that Stops Me
What the Critic Doesn’t See The more coaching and therapy work I do, the less surprised I am by the invisibility of the inner critic. It has become so normalised that we…
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The Addict in Me
I have been doing some work at a rehab centre and, in my short stay, have learned a few things. I look around and who surrounds me? Addicts. And I, as a…