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New Beginnings
"The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose." (Arnold Bennett)
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Sep 7, 20254 min read


The High School Bully
I had a high-school bully. Hell, I even had a primary school bully and a pre-school one, too. In fact, I'm still being bullied.
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Aug 31, 20256 min read


Fear Mode vs Love Mode
When I'm feeling fearful - a word I associate with anxiety- it's all I can think about sometimes.
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Aug 24, 20255 min read


Emotional Shifters
"Emotion" is an umbrella term that describes a loosely coordinated response that includes what we feel, think, and experience in our bodies in response to events we judge to be meaningful."
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Aug 17, 20254 min read


Best Laid Plans
"The universe doesn't match our actions, it matches our vibration."
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Aug 10, 20254 min read


The Element
"I use the term the element to describe the place where the things we love to do and the things we are good at come together."
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Jul 27, 20255 min read


"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"
"The most important person to keep your promises to, is yourself." (Unknown)
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Jul 20, 20254 min read


"Shooting the Messenger"
I think she's ready to punch something, and it might as well be fear.
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Jul 13, 20255 min read


The Placebo Effect
"You Are the Placebo is about putting you in the driver's seat of creating your own change..."
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Jul 7, 20257 min read


Existential Frustration
"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose." Viktor Frankl.
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Jun 29, 20257 min read


I'm a Liar!
"We must kill the lies we believe before they kill our ability to live life to the full." (Niki Hardy, Breathe Again: How To Live Well When Life Falls Apart)
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Jun 23, 20257 min read


Our Default State
What is this, exactly? Do we all have the same one? Cutting right to the chase. By the time I'd finished Ethan Kross's book, Chatter ,...
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May 25, 20256 min read


PRESENCE: IT'S ABOUT THE NOW
The Concept Eckhart Tolle's book, The Power of Now is clearly touted as "A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment", drawing on spiritual...
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Oct 27, 20246 min read


Mindfulness and the Fight or Flight Response
Anxiety This single word is my shortest heading to date, but it's enough because when amid an anxiety attack, it's like nothing else...
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Oct 20, 20247 min read


It's in the little things...
This is the crux of James Clear's book. He suggests that, with small changes, we can achieve outstanding results. "It's the little...
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Oct 6, 20246 min read


Creating A New Me
"When troubles come, they come not single spies but in battalions." (Claudius, Hamlet Act IV, Scene V) Shakespeare certainly knew how to...
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Sep 15, 20249 min read


Spoiler Alert...
It's me! I'm the root of the problem. The good thing is that I am also the solution. Well, according to one writer specifically. No...
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Sep 8, 20246 min read


The 'Black Dog'
What an unfortunate way to describe #depression. I mean, look at that face. This is not a reference I generally use. However, as this...
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Aug 31, 20246 min read
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