Category: Writer, Blogger
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The Power of The Written Word
If you think back over your life, you may not need to remember too far back, when you read something that changed you in some way. The words seeped into you and stayed there, your mind recalling them again and again. Perhaps it wasn’t exactly the specific words, but the way they made you feel,…
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Goals Vs Resolutions, and Why You Should Start Now
We are fast approaching Christmas, and I know someone who has put up their tree already. (I’m sure that my husband would put ours up today if I let him!) After Christmas, what is it that we will all be thinking about? The New Year. There is definitely something magical about a new year beginning,…
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Shape your Growth
You are constantly changing, whether you want to or not. You can choose how you grow, or allow your life to shape you. The choice is yours. – Carrie Baker When I was growing up and going through a certain stage of life, I can clearly remember my mum telling me that I had a…
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The Power of Authenticity
Do you ever feel as though you are being told something, over and over again? Like God, or the universe, is trying to get a message to you? I feel that there has been a certain theme running through my week. Authenticity. But what does authenticity actually mean? Well, lucky for you, I looked it…
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The Practice of Being Present
I wrote about learning to be present during lockdown, a couple of years ago. I published it on another page and completely forgot about it. Rereading since I first wrote it, I feel like it is still so relevant to me. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve said recently, ‘It only feels like…
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Find Focus and Clarity with these Questions
Lately, I’ve been needing carve out some time. (If you’ve read my last two blog posts, you’d know all about this, they are here and here) Time for my writing, but also for me. If you’d have asked me not too many years ago, what I really wanted to do with my life, I wouldn’t…
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The Disappearing Time Trick
This blog post directly follows the one I wrote last week, about ways to give yourself more time for your goals, things that bring you joy or that dream you are going after. If you want to catch up on that before you read this one, you can get that here. Now that you have…
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How to Give Yourself more TIME.
If I had a fiver for every time I ever said “I wish I had more time”, I could retire and have all the time I needed! I have my day job (which you can read about here), I keep my household fed, clothed, the home clean, I try my best to keep plants alive,…
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One Step at a Time
I have struggled with this lately. Like, really struggled. I wanted to be further along on my journey, closer to where I want to be. I spent most of the summer learning and absorbing and dreaming about my bigger picture goals. Ask me what I achieved this summer…. The answer is this: Not a whole…
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9 Reasons Why You Are Just a Complicated Houseplant
Hey Friend! If you have been around here for more than five minutes, you’ll know that I love houseplants. To have a house full of luscious green leafy plants, to bring life, colour and cosiness to my home, was a goal I’d had for years. After many failures of one plant after another sadly meeting…
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