Blog overview
A Tender Journey of Care, Strength, and Surrender
In September 2025, I spent five weeks in South Africa with my mom, who was then 83 and had been living with Parkinson’s for 13 years. It was a visit filled with both tenderness and challenge. There were moments of deep love, and others of helplessness, frustration,...
HSPs and People Pleasing: 5 Behaviours That Hold Us Back and a Way Forward
I had the joy of interviewing a dear colleague about her new book, Courage to Be You. She wrote about people pleasing: a topic many Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) wrestle with. I remember, years ago, when I first heard this term from another colleague… it left me...
EFT for Dilemmas, Conundrums, and Paradoxes
“Sometimes the most difficult decisions are what lead us to who we are meant to become.” - Hannah Clark - One morning this past August, my husband and I were chatting in bed, sipping our coffee, when I shared something that had been hard for me. September is a special...
Overcoming Overwhelm as an HSP or Sensitive Soul
If I’m completely honest, overwhelm has been a theme in my life for as long as I can remember. And from conversations with other Highly Sensitive Souls, I know I’m not alone. Nod if you’ve ever felt like the world is just a bit too much? It seems to me that the sense...
Re-evaluating Commitments During Changing Life Seasons
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” - Victor Frankl - Noticing the Strain For a while now, I’ve noticed that I’m more stressed: I’m carrying more on my shoulders and there’s a reluctance to sit at my computer to...
Processing the Loss of a Special Person
"It's so much darker when a light goes out, than it would have been if it had never shone." - John Steinbeck - When we lose someone—whether a person, a dream, a way of life—it can trigger a whole constellation of emotions. If we don’t give those feelings the time,...
How Open are you to Guidance?
“And to the degree my ‘cup’ has room to receive, I may see, hear and feel more deeply into the moment. Not only does this enrich my life, but it allows me to be interdependent, creative and happier. (I can’t know or be concerned with what it does for others.)” – Pam...
EFT for the Fear of Pain
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, an no tonic as powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.” - Orison Swett Marden - I wrote this article in 2011 (gosh, 14 years ago?!) and published it on my original website. That website sadly went...
What I’ve Learned From My Epic Stomach Healing Journey
When I returned from a 3-week trip to my parents after the worst of the pandemic in January 2021, I wrote the article below. After the quote, I share deeper insights and what I’ve learned since then. “We had a fantastic visit to South Africa. Sun, warm weather,...
Kindness in a Health Journey
World Kindness Day is celebrated every year on 13 November. I wrote this during the pandemic, not realising how relevant it would be many years later. I’m now working with clients who have health issues and kindness often lacks in their suffering. In that unbelievably...
We Cannot Separate Health from the Rest of Our Lives
“Wellness is not a ‘medical fix’ but a way of living — a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirt, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.” — Greg Anderson - This...
Why HSPs Can Have a Hard Time With their Health
“For a Highly Sensitive Person, a drizzle feels like a monsoon.” - Anonymous - Over the years, as I was dealing with my own health and pain issues, I’ve had the opportunity to learn about the intersection of being Highly Sensitive, health, and pain. In 2021, I...
EFT for a Bee Sting
In this article, I am sharing the benefits of EFT to manage pain and stress after unexpected injuries. Daily beach walks for sanity In December 2024, I spent 6 weeks in South Africa to visit my mom with Parkinson’s Disease. I went for a beach walk every morning to...
What is an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) and Why I Talk About It
“Highly Sensitive People see the world not just with their eyes, but also with their hearts. Sure, they can be hurt easily, and those wounds can run deep. But they also love and inspire others like no one else can.” ~ Jan Granneman ~ You may have heard me talk about...
Procrastinating on Hard Things
“Procrastination is like a credit card: It’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.” ~ Christopher Parker ~ Every year over the South African summer, I spend between 5 and 6 weeks with my mother. As I got back in the saddle after about 7 weeks of absence from my...
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...
