SEEKING THAT WHICH IS LOST
When I backpacked around the world a few years ago, I found a lot of people travelling who were not just young kids on a ‘gap’ year out to have fun, but people on...
Author: nicola
THE MAGIC OF MINDFULNESS
Have you ever driven your usual route to work when you were actually going somewhere else that day? We, as ‘normal’ human beings, have sixty to eighty thousand thoughts a day! Can you imagine...
SCREAMING PHOBIAS
It’s that time of year again! A friend of mine has just posted a photo of a huge spider in her house on social media. The comments underneath her post showed there are plenty...
WHILST I WAS LOVING LIVING LIFE, LOVE FOUND ME
I was thirty-nine, single and tired of it. I wanted a man. I wanted a partner for life. A husband! I had never wanted that before. A boyfriend, yes, but never a husband. Something...
LOTTERY TICKETS & HOPE
It occurs to me what buying lottery tickets is really all about. It’s not the excitement of gambling that one might suppose. After all, the chances of actually winning are so miniscule to be...
HABITS
I’ve not written for a while, and I really don’t know where to start again. it had become a pleasurable habit, something to do between clients, classes and walking the dog at lunchtime. Settling...
WHAT IF THINGS HAD BEEN DIFFERENT?
Have you ever wondered just what you could have been if you’d really let yourself go for it, or if only the opportunity had presented itself? Did you have a hankering to be an...
YOU GET WHAT YOU SETTLE FOR
I love that line from the movie Thelma and Louise, where Louise, a pragmatic kind of woman, utters her philosophy of life in one phrase: “You get what you settle for.” Back in the...
FEAR AND STRESS – FUD AND FOMO
There seems to be a lot of fear about. Recently, I’ve learned two new terms: FUD meaning Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt; and FOMO meaning Fear Of Missing Out. It seems as if our lives...
THE ONE THING TO MAKE EVERYTHING ALRIGHT
You know how it is when you’re praying for the one thing that will make everything alright. A win on the lottery, and all my troubles will be gone. If I could only find...