My Dear Friend, When the world is telling you you aren’t enough. When you have lost touch with a sense of the sacred. When your relationships have become means to an end. When the logic of utility and efficiency have sidled into even the most...

My Dear Friend, When the world is telling you you aren’t enough. When you have lost touch with a sense of the sacred. When your relationships have become means to an end. When the logic of utility and efficiency have sidled into even the most...
The myth of Narcissus is at least 2000 years old. Human beings have always had a tendency to fall in love with their own reflection. Snoop Dogg said “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the top dogg of them all.” I’ve noticed a lot of people...
“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe” - Rumi Your body is amazing. Not the six-pack or thigh-gap type of amazing. Across millions of years of evolution and through billions of tiny...
Thank you for being here now. Below I will share some of the best books, podcasts and songs I discovered and enjoyed on repeat in 2020. But first, would you join me for a moment of reflection? Let’s cast our minds back to January 2020. Do you...
We grow through the cracks. The ground opens beneath us. In beauty we rise. Have you noticed how nature finds a way? Flowers rise through concrete, trees grow from ruins, and a family of foxes have taken nest under my shed. When the human...
Recently, I've been going deeper into the practice of relating to my somatic experience as it arises. Somatic experience is simply what you feel in your body without describing it in words. Everyone is capable of doing this. We were born...
By the time you have finished reading this sentence, your attention may already have started to wander, according to the latest statistics on attention-deficit. The average attention-span in 2013 was just 8 seconds, down from 12 seconds in 2000,...
Kindness - easy to say, not so easy to do. What makes kindness a challenge are what I call 'kindness blockers' - those things that get in the way of our innate kindness. Things that get in the way of kindness are primarily those things that...
So you have heard about mindfulness, perhaps used it yourself, and you think it would help a child you are either parent to or work with. I have written here a very brief, step-by-step guide to using mindfulness with children, based on my...
“I am going to die.” What happens inside you when you let that statement sink into your body? Many of us experience fear and other difficult emotions. Many of us brush those difficult feelings under the carpet. But as we grow, that pile of dust...