Just when you thought covid was the worst thing to happen, we have the floods. I’ve been hearing that these are the worst floods ever for these areas. Thankfully my family escaped damage and flooding but there are so many people around us that did not fare so well. Keep reading – you might just […]
How to Make Tough Choices
Jon and I were talking today about the big ‘quality of life’ question. Do you have better quality of life by having more time and working less? Or do you have better quality of life having money and being able to do the things you love in your free time? I guess it was sparked […]
The Importance of Kindness
I quite often recommend John Gottman’s Marriage Minute to clients. It’s an email that comes maybe weekly or fortnightly and takes about a minute to read. Very helpful stuff for relationships. One of my clients who subscribed told me about one that I missed about killing it with kindness. Basically, no matter what, be kind […]
You Have 6200 Thoughts a Day – What Will You Do With Yours?
It is official: we have 6200 thoughts a day. A study from Queens University in Ontario measured how often we shifted from one thought to the next (through some very fancy scientific methods that we don’t need to go into here). They called each of these a thought worm. Unfortunately I’m quite visual and now […]
Why You Should Put Important Things First (rocks, pebbles, sand continued)
You might remember the rocks, pebbles, sand story from last time. If you haven’t read it read this 1st https://www.healgrowtransform.com.au/changing-mindsets/best-time-management-tool-for-making-you-happy/ or this won’t make sense. I promised I’d tell you the psychological reasons for making room for rocks first and why we get caught up in the smaller things instead. Firstly, we tend to get […]
Believe it or Not: You Can Find Time
I read an article the other day that said the CEO of a very large company found the time to meditate for 2 hours a day. My 1st thought was that he mustn’t get much sleep. But as I read on it all started to make sense. He meditates whenever he can – in the […]
Strategies for Personal Growth
If the new year is always a good time to set new goals, then a new decade must be better right! If you’ve been reading my blogs for a while you’ll know that I’m not a fan of New Year’s Resolutions. Research says they’re rubbish and we don’t really stick to them. But…there are other […]
Don’t Abandon Yourself
We’re coming into holiday time which can, quite frankly, be pretty stressful. For some, expectations run high and are easily disappointed. For others, it’s time spent with family not often seen (and we’re reminded of why). And yet others, it’s a time where the joy of giving is overpowered by the misery of financial stress. […]
How to Manage Emotions – the Best Way Ever
Managing emotions is one of the most important things in life. It helps in relationships, at work, and how we feel on a daily basis. The more we’re able to recognise, label and modulate our emotions, the more successful we are both socially and at work. Managing emotions, or emotion regulation, is a skill we […]
Use It or Lose It
You may remember from the last newsletter I told you about the benefits of going barefoot in nature and how grounding/earthing can change so many things for the positive (didn’t read it? Here’s the link). There’s another bonus to going barefoot – even though this one doesn’t have to be done in nature. There’s a […]
How to be More Grounded
I’ll be honest – I love this sh*t where science catches up to spiritual. Where stuff other cultures have been doing for eons suddenly changes from ‘eye rolling kooky’ to ‘latest medical breakthrough’. And here’s one that totally fits that bill. There are many ancient cultures that have used the energy of the earth for […]
What Are You Willing to Give Up to Be Happy?
So often we try to ‘do’ things to make us happier. We do positive thinking exercises. We do gratitude diaries. We do meditation. What if we had to stop doing? What if there were things we were doing in our lives that were making us unhappy and all we had to do was make a […]
How to Get Off the Negative Wheel
Have you ever been stuck in a big negative loop? Where you feel bad about something and the more you think about it the more reasons you find to keep you feeling bad? If you have you’re not alone. But is it really necessary and can we do something to get us off that negative […]
Build Your Self-Esteem
Sometimes I think we have the world back-to-front. We don’t want to try things until we feel confident to do them. We don’t want to put ourselves out there until our self-esteem is up to handling it. For example, we don’t want to try dating in case we’re rejected. Or we don’t want to try […]
A Step Towards Resilience
There’s no denying that sometimes things can feel overwhelming. And that it can feel like everything is getting on top of you. Or that things are so bad there seems no way out. Or that right now you’re so anxious that nothing could soothe you. We usually have habitual ways of dealing with these uncomfortable […]
