Walking offers multiple physical health, wellbeing and cognitive benefits. From oxygen fuelling positive moods and creativity to strengthening muscles, increasing vitality, and providing a space to reflect and wonder.Walking in nature, in particular, can reduce stress, anxiety, low mood and boost our immune system.I created...
The world is complex, change constant, and in the past few years, a felt sense of uncertainty has been emerging or increasing for many. Worrying about uncertainty is a coping mechanism that doesn’t serve us in the long term. Trying to fit our perception of what...
Inner blocks often come from the life narrative we create for ourselves based on the past, on old beliefs about ourselves and the world, on old aspirations and intentions. One of their roles is to make us avoid the things that could threaten our sense of...
Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art meaning ‘joining with gold’ used to mend broken ceramics with a gold powder and laquer mix. The gold glue highlights rather than hides the repair. Putting things back together in a new form is a metaphor for resilience in life. A broken...
Perfectionism is a series of behaviours we put in place to cope and reassure ourselves in stressful situations. It is learned from childhood based on the core belief “I am only OK if I get everything right”. It leads to rules and beliefs that can result...
Feeling of personal wholeness increases when our environment, mind, body and spirit are in balance.Balance is a state of equilibrium.How do you get yours? The equinoxes are the only time when both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere experience roughly equal amounts of daytime and night-time. Equinox...
Yoga, meditation, KonMari, Hygge, bullet journal… To some extent the aim of these practices is to find and/or create space.In your body. In your mind. In your surroundings. In your heart. In your day.We might think about space as a luxury: outdoor spaces, free time...
The self-coaching minute will run a series of Self-coaching questions linked to climate change.It starts today with generic questions.More questions will follow in the months to come to challenge your beliefs, your habits, your fears, to identify tensions, contradictions and resistance, to explore your own...
Last December, I encouraged you to select 3 words to describe your intention for 2021. The first one as a direction to follow and the second and third as the threads, themes or signs under which your journey would take place. (Check out the Self-Coaching...
Cycle touring is how I have replenished and reset every year for more than a decade. Over the years, I have risen to the challenge of more elevation. During my last cycling tour this summer in the North of England I had plenty of time...
