Resilience
What is your story?
Believe it or not, the stories or narratives you tell yourself changes what you see or think possible in life. When we enter an experience with a story about how we think life is, that determines how we focus our attention and becomes what we see, even when there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary.…
Continue ReadingMental Resilience
It can happen to any of us: we don’t get done what we hoped to get done, then we feel stressed, distressed or guilty about it. It’s time to let that pattern go. It’s simply not helpful. We can build resilience around expectations, with a little mental training. And it may support and enable us…
Continue ReadingOur number one craving
Have you ever noticed a sense of incompleteness in your life? That there was something missing? I know I certainly have from time to time. What is our number one craving? You have most likely felt it too since adolescence, or at least since early childhood. It’s a feeling that something is wrong; that something…
Continue Reading17 Questions to Free Your Mind
A New Year… great. But a new year doesn’t mean a new you or a new life, especially if your mind is still boxed up in its comfort zone. You know this is true. You can’t live the same year 82 times and call it a life! What I’m saying is: don’t just think outside…
Continue ReadingBuilding Your Inner Resilience
“In April, after seeing you and after nearly a full year of mourning, I took the first step in moving forward with my life. I officially started the home-based business I mapped out over the past decade and always dreamed I’d build. I know my husband is watching over me, and I know he’d be…
Continue ReadingYou’re more resilient than you think
Over the weekend a friend sent me a link to Delta Goodrem’s new song ‘Dear Life’ – if you haven’t listened to you it, I recommend it to you. She said it reminded her of me. To me it’s like an open letter to life, reflecting on the path and reminding us that there are…
Continue ReadingThe 7 Keys to Your Happiness and Success
I’ve often wondered what the distinction between happiness and success really is. I recall a few years back I was interviewed for Cosmo magazine on this very topic. The insight for me, and what I’ve grown to appreciate is that happiness is an INside job – success is what we do in our ‘outer’ world.…
Continue Reading2016: Make it a year of no regrets
What would you dare to do, BE or say if you knew you would be fully supported to succeed? Every morning I greet the day with a ‘thank you’. You see, in 1991 I was diagnosed with cancer for the first time, and given 6 months to live. It’s moments like that which can awaken…
Continue Reading8 Telltale Signs You’re NOT In Control Of Your Brain
Download this article here. Are you living your life on autopilot never pausing to consider who’s in charge of your thoughts? Do you sometimes wonder why you react the way you do to things that happen around or to you? Well the good news is that it’s not you… it’s just your brain! Or more…
Continue ReadingBuild Resilience: My Top 10 Tips for Coping with Adversity
Download this article here. We have all at some stage been absolutely astounded at how well someone has managed to stay afloat – emotionally, psychologically and physically, through the most awful situation, and at other times have been deeply concerned about another’s lack of ‘buoyancy’ in the same situation. What makes these people different? It’s…
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