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What I’ve learnt from borrowing other peoples’ kids September 13, 2015 – Posted in: Advice, Confidence, Relationships

As many of you know I have three daughters aged 11, 8 and 6. I also have the honour of ‘borrowing’ other people’s children for periods of time as a foster parent to older teenagers. We’ve been fostering as a family for nearly six years and it’s been a wonderful, life-affirming and challenging experience to share our home, our hearts and our lives with the young people who’ve joined our family.

Your purpose in life…? It’s to GIVE! September 2, 2015 – Posted in: Personal Development, Relationships

I’ve written before about this being a ‘giving life’, by which I mean that I find meaning and value in the every day when my intention is to give to others, to bless others, to look for ways in which I can serve the world.

What is true communication? August 31, 2015 – Posted in: Leaders and Teams, Relationships

I was talking with a client in a session recently and he remarked at how much his marriage had improved since (after encouragement from me) he’d told his wife how he’d been feeling about a certain issue in his life.

Leave your emotional junk out of your kids’ lives August 24, 2015 – Posted in: Advice, Leaders and Teams, Relationships

When I first became a mum in 2004 my own childhood came into stark relief and I realised in a fresh way just how painful and traumatic much of my early years had been. With this in mind I became driven to do it differently with my own children to the point where I became a perfectionist about my parenting. One cross word from me to my daughter and I felt an immediate avalanche of…

Everything’s on loan – Posted in: Advice, Personal Development, Relationships, Spirituality

Nothing in this life is permanent apart from our sense of self and our connection to a higher consciousness. Everything else is on loan. This means our children are on loan to us, our parents, our friends and our colleagues. Some people are loaned to us for decades, others for a day but no one person is yours for the keeping no matter how much you’d like them to be. Our stuff is also on…

Anger as Fuel for Change August 18, 2015 – Posted in: Personal Development, Relationships

It’s a commonly held misconception in spiritual circles that anger is ‘wrong’ in some way. But is it?

Unhook From Blame Culture August 10, 2015 – Posted in: Confidence, Personal Development, Relationships

How often do you hear people saying that so-and-so has ‘made them feel’ a certain way? How often have you blamed others for your own feelings or situation in life?

On Worrying July 29, 2015 – Posted in: Confidence, Personal Development, Relationships, Spirituality

How much value do you place on your worrying? What I mean by this is, how much do you feel you can effect in life by worrying? Many people believe that it’s their job and duty to worry. They wear their concern like a uniform.

Great Expectations… July 20, 2015 – Posted in: Confidence, Relationships

At my most recent Food For Thought session we looked at our relationships…

The Only Certainty in Life is Uncertainty – Posted in: Confidence, Personal Development, Relationships

If there’s one thing I’ve come to terms with and accepted in recent years it’s that the only certainty in life is uncertainty. For years I tried to control every aspect of my life and it was a bit like trying to peg down a tent in high winds. Because my life can’t be pegged down and neither can yours!

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