Hang up! Then wash your mind out… — I was sitting at my sister’s kitchen table while she made a work call from her office. I’d had the most wonderful three days with her and her lovely husband. Three days without a wobble. Not a moment of sadness. Ne’er a twinge of worry. Wall to wall sunshine, inside…

No more letting it ride roughshod… — So, here I am, it’s 3 am and fear is playing its game with me again. Tears. Worry. Anxiety. Powerlessness presses the air from my lungs. My puppy dog mind has diarrhoea, I think to myself. The reframe brings some relief. …

Give it a rawhide mantra* to chew on — give yourself a break — I love the analogy of a ‘Puppy-dog Mind’ My clients do too. It’s almost magical, when I first introduce the concept of the ‘Puppy-dog Mind’— to my (dog-loving!) clients. I found myself writing this in a recent blog on the topic: I feel (clients) relax when I offer (this analogy). Tense shoulders melt into puzzled relief. They smile…

A life of magic. I want that. — My need to believe in magic — it’s an obsession. I make no apologies. Most nights I go to sleep bathed in magic, with the sound of Harry Potter being read to me by the glorious Stephen Fry. I live for the notion that life can be magical. That miracles…

What difference would that make to your life? — A few days ago, in journaled conversation with my Self* I asked for insight to lift my spirits. As ever, I received a thought that helped, swiftly. It has been a mainstay for the past week. It was, like always, a quiet, understated thought, slipping softly into my mind like…

But it stops us imagining a better one — No wonder we feel so stuck! There’s a time for acknowledging current reality, for sure. But what happens when we focus on a reality we don’t like and don’t know how to resolve? Every system in our world is geared towards magnifying the problem. We obsess over it. We tell…

What a wonderful Chinese proverb! Nesting sorrow birds. Hmm. Yes, I’d say the last few days have been rather too permissive of nest-building for my sad flock. But how to send them kindly on their way? Therein lies the rub… The rub comes from wanting to send them on their…

Avoiding the perils of a puppy-dog mind — A mind run amok — mine, a week ago last Sunday Curled up on the couch I was. Crying again. Lord, when will it all end? The day had started well enough. A day without structure. A day just for me. No events booked. No people to see. No pressure, no fuss, no muss… I crave days like that, as life…

Imagining molds reality. Are you doing it with care? — Thoughts on imagining — that just might change your life Some of us claim to have no imagination. We struggle to feel we can use it. We feel dead to creativity. And yet, there we go, imagining again… The truth is, everything we are involves imagining, but mostly we don’t do it on purpose. “What is there to worry about…