Blog overview
Health Journeys: Finding Hope during “Anticyclonic Gloom”
Where I live in the UK, in November 2024, we had two solid weeks without seeing the sun. Not even one single glimpse. This was caused by a weather phenomenon called “anti-cyclonic gloom”. Why anti-cyclonic? In a cyclone, there’s a low-pressure system that sucks air...
Permission to Rest
How often do you check in with what you need, and permit yourself to have that? I’m not talking about all the whimsical cravings, wants, and desires we have multiple times a day. Like another piece of chocolate or buying yet another book for our bedside table...
What to do when we feel embarrassed or mortified
Over the weekend a friend wrote. She explained a hard situation, and several difficult thoughts and emotions around it. I recommended 2 of my existing videos that could support her immediately before getting together later for a customised EFT session. Then, this...
How Our Brains Trick Us Into Overlooking Our Blessings, and What to Do About It
Dismissing our blessings Have you noticed how easy it is for us to discount what we already have , in favour of ‘what will make me happy sometime in the future’? Over the past two weeks, I noticed a few times how many things I had wished for in the past were already...
The Dreaded Drama Triangle and how EFT can Help
"There are 2 kinds of drama: The drama that leads to more drama. And the drama that leads to a new mindset." (Unknown)( I recently had 2 situations where I realised I was not using my agency. I noticed I felt a bit like a victim - as if I was powerless in the...
The Inner Game of Aging with EFT
Have you ever been so disappointed that you refused to feel better? That happened to me recently. I felt distressed about something silly that “should not” have upset me that much. Even though I knew how (with EFT and various other tools), I was unable to calm myself...
The Pleasure and Pain of Perfectionism
Are you a Perfectionist and proud of it? Or do you wish you weren’t a Perfectionist and could enjoy life with all its messiness more? I’ve been on both sides of the coin, and wanted to dissect this and offer ideas for our relationship with perfectionism. As I started...
What to do When you’re Stuck in a Hopeless, Difficult Situation
impaI recently had a conversation with a beautiful subscriber who shared her story with me. She talked about how she’s been stuck in a horrible job for so long, that she has lost all hope that things can ever change. I could deeply empathize with her because I’ve been...
Why Remembering our Strengths Eases Tough Tasks
Recently I said yes to a project that I expected to be effortless. It would use a bunch of skills and tools I feel very comfortable with: MS Excel, Powerpoint, Word, and on top of that, it would all revolve around material and knowledge I’m familiar with. “Easy peasy...
Knee Injury Success Story
“I have come to understand that some of the deepest and most effective healing is not found at a doctor’s office or a hospital, but rather from inside ourselves. Our bodies are designed for self-healing, and we are capable of both boosting and blocking that ability.”...
When Big Change Appears
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.” — Anatole France - Can you think of something you hated at first, yet after a while you either...
When Things don’t go according to plan
“Life is something that happens while you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon ~ I am currently seeing John Lennon’s quote in many forms in, and around me. I wonder if you’re noticing this, too? Unplanned events and situations often come our way. Things like...
Clearing the Path to Healing
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” — Caroline Myss What do we do when we really want something but there are obstacles in the way of even starting? Here's an example: Sally: “I want to get over this issue. But I’m...
5 Ways in which Labels like ‘Introvert’ and ‘HSP’ can Hinder Us
In a previous article, I looked at 5 ways in which labels can be helpful. For a balanced view, I want to look at how labels can also be unhelpful and hinder our journey. One: Stereotyping and Oversimplification Something I can’t stand when someone mentions their...
5 Ways in which Labels like ‘Introvert’ and ‘HSP’ can be Helpful
There have been many discussions about whether labels like Introversion, HSP, Empath and others are helpful or not. This article describes my perspective. I’ve seen this type of interaction so often. Perhaps you’ve seen similar, or been on either side of this type of...
What my Body tried to Tell me with Recurring Leg Pain
“Your body hears everything your mind says.” - Naomi Judd - Have you ever had a lingering, recurring health annoyance that kept bugging you? And yet not quite enough to say, “Enough is enough, I’m sorting this out now”? Welcome to the human race — me too. I think it’s...
What we can Learn from Nature about Illness and Disease
“The body is a self-healing organism, so it’s really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.” - Barbara Brennan - I have often written about receiving messages from nature when I go on my daily walks in the woods behind our house. Today, I...
Five Inspiring Perspectives for Tough Times
“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.” - Dalai Lama - If you’re anything like me, you might be having a rather hard time right now deciding how on earth to go about ‘normal’ life when...
A Client’s Results with Panic Attacks and EFT
Have you wondered how effective EFT really is for panic attacks? In this article, I'll describe the results a recent client had with her panic attacks as a result of our EFT sessions. Willow (name changed for privacy) came to me via referral from a previous client....
The World Needs What You Have
What’s wrong versus what’s right Most people I talk to don't realise they have gifts, strengths, and talents to offer the world. Most clients arrive in my office because of all the things ‘wrong’ with them. Many people spend years in therapy letting go of all the...
Reach out to Precious People While there is Time
I have had a few experiences recently that helped me see how precious, uncertain, and precarious our human lives are. I want to share some of them briefly today — perhaps they mean something to you, too, as you navigate this strange old journey on Mother Earth. 3...
Two Ways to Improve our Complex Relationship with Money
I hope the first quote made you smile — it’s obviously by a comedian. My husband introduced me to Spike Milligan many years ago and while I don’t enjoy all his silly humour, this one sure did make me smile! I find it quite true — how about you? On a bad day, a coffee...
Tips to Understand and Overcome Low Mood and Motivation
. “If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realised, then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.” - Nelson Mandela - So it’s Monday, and article/newsletter day...
3 Helpful Tips for Writer’s Block
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does.” ~ Leslie Marmon Silko ~ As I sat down to write this article, I had what some might...
Spiritual Insights on Transforming Unhealthy Habits
“Habit allows us to go from ‘before’ to ‘after,’ to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious — and rightly so — for its ability to direct even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force...
Healing Beyond the Body: Emotional Layers in Health
“Negative emotions are messengers delivering urgent news from faraway lands you lost contact to Don’t shoot the messengers, they are gardeners bringing tears to water the seeds of a new you” - Valentina Quarta - (Sidenote: No emotion is ‘negative’ in my world! These...
The Healing Power of Knowing Where to Tap
"The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.” ~ Harry J Johnson ~ Invoice for Knowing Where to Tap...
How my childhood dream of being a doctor came true in a different form
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” ~ Colin Powell ~ My childhood dream "I'm going to be a doctor one day." I remember deciding to become a doctor at 6 years old. It didn’t quite work out that way, yet I...
The Life Changing Magic of Small Successes
“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.” ~ Norman Lear ~ Clients come to me for many different...
Five Messages from a Giant Sequoia
Over the years, I've learnt the surprising gift of 'listening' to the trees on my walks. Today I'd like to share five important messages from a special tree. We discovered this enormous, beautiful Sequoia in the woods about 20 minutes walk from us just after we moved...