There is a particular kind of discomfort that doesn’t come from pressure or overload. It comes from stillness. Not the chosen kind of stillness, the restorative pause at the end of a full day, but the kind that arrives uninvited. The kind that interrupts your pace, that quietly removes your ability to do what you […]
When Your Identity Is Built on Productivity, Stillness Feels Like Failure Read More »
When things get tough, it’s actually your opportunity to reinforce good habits This past week, as I prepared for our Vision Workshop, I noticed my old pattern creeping back in: the urge to push harder, work longer, and move faster when things get tough. It’s a habit I’ve been working on for years. I’ve made
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Welcome to the second blog in our series on connecting more to Spirit. This week I want to introduce to a radical new concept of joy. We’ve been taught to treat joy like a reward — something that comes after the work is done, when we’ve earned it, or done something to deserve it. But
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As the days grow longer and the first signs of spring appear, at least here in Ireland, we are invited into a season of renewal, growth, and fresh possibilities. Just as nature awakens from winter’s stillness, we too have an opportunity to refresh our energy, realign with our goals, and spring forward with renewed purpose.
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We’ve all been there—sitting down to start a task only to find yourself suddenly in need of organizing your desk, checking social media, or even doing the laundry. Procrastination, while often dismissed as a minor inconvenience, can erode your productivity and well-being over time. The good news is that you can overcome this tendency with
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For some reason, this year more than ever there seems to be a kind of weariness around as we embrace the festive season. Maybe it’s still a kind of post-pandemic tiredness, whereby we are living life more fully again but still carrying the shock of the pandemic and its impact. Or maybe it’s just trying
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I met with a client recently who has made a decision to move into the next stage of her vision. She was feeling so much better now that the decision is made, it got me to thinking that I should write some more on this topic! I’ve written about decision making before and shared some
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Perhaps you are like me, having grown up with the idea that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me”. It was a handy retort when dealing with schoolyard bullies and of course, it is true that words can’t hurt us physically. However, words do have a long-lasting emotional impact,
Words Create Worlds Read More »
Happy Hallowe’en! I hope you’ve been enjoying the fun and trick-or-treating, fun traditions that have emerged from much older, sacred practices. For the Celts of old, this time of year was a sacred time, marking the end of the harvest and the start of the coldest half of the year. For many, Samhain*, meaning “Summer’s
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In the mid-1800s, in Concord Massachusetts, USA there were a group of people who came together at the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson to talk and discuss and ask big questions. It was a period of time that became known as “the flowering of enlightenment” in the United States and the people involved were huge
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