The UK is about to host a monumental sense of occasion, a ritual full of pomp and ceremony, history, tradition. Whatever your thoughts, as I know the coronation can divide opinion, I would like to take this moment to reflect on the need for rituals. I used to think ritual was just a better word…
Pleasure, the notion of doing something for pure enjoyment is wonderful for our wellbeing. Yet… we can so often dismiss it as not important enough, by thinking pleasure is somehow frivolous (think of the phrase ‘are you travelling for pleasure or work?’), that it has to be associated with guilt (think of the term ‘a…
In our Wellbeing Coach training we cover self-love and ask the question how would you describe love if you had never been in love or received love? What would your answer be? How would you describe love? I often think back to the comic strip characters, Love Is… of the 1970s (showing my age!! )…
What is passion? Is purpose the same as passion? And what about meaning? Do passion and purpose equal meaning? It appears we put great emphasis on life having to be so meaningful, so full of passion, to have a sense of purpose and if not, life is empty. We flail around not knowing what the…
It is an interesting thought that many of us love to give and yet struggle to receive. The heart also symbolically represents love and If we were to think of love, it in many ways represents the epitome of this flow of give and take. This loving flow creating a partnership of care. We all…
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has had countless negative impacts on our lives and the world, it has also brought the importance of mental health into the spotlight and shaken off some of the stigma associated with it. In a previous post, I discussed the ‘Every Mind Matters’ campaign, the first of its kind from the…