“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it” - Rumi My self-love journey has been, and continues to be a challenging, rewarding and soul-enhancing practice. Looking back at myself as a young woman I had little love for myself. My journey into healing my heart has spanned 20 years, 6000 miles, and two continents to ultimately find my soul path and to discover who I am truly am. Today, I accept

An on-going request from my clients is how to work with the ‘anxiety hour’. This is the problem when people wake up suddenly between 3.00 and 4.00am with restlessness and anxiety. Invariably, they feel like they have energy to start the day right then. But alas it’s only 3.00am! I experience this too, especially during times of stress and when there is a lot expected of me. Times when I need to dig deep. Not only is this annoying, it's also bad for our health. Lack of sleep c

One of my biggest discoveries for living a more gentle life is the practice of letting go. Letting go has had a lasting impact on my well-being and has become a vital part of my daily diet. In fact, it's right up there with my daily raw green juice :) Exploring letting go and practicing it in my life has been transformational so thought I'd share a few tips. What does letting go mean for me? How do I let go? When I try to control people, I always lose. Another driver cut me o

During private sessions with my clients, we've been having great outcomes working with challenging emotions. The results are transformational and freeing so I thought I'd write about it. How can a negative emotion lead to something positive? It's so easy for me to get caught up and completely carried away with my emotions. This is my automatic reaction, a pattern that has been with me for decades. I've seen time and time again that when I look for an exit or a way to numb th

I've been working out my physical body for years with cardio and weight training but I've learned this is only one part of overall health and well-being. Once I started flexing my mindfulness muscle, life became sweeter and I began to experience more peace. Now it has become a necessary daily workout :) What is mindfulness? What's the benefit of being mindful? And what are some easy ways to do it? In my opinion, working out my mindfulness muscle can be more challenging than