HEALING HABITS #5 forgiveness
To forgive, it's important to first accept that what happened, happened. You don't need to embrace or approve what happened, but you need...
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- Jan 10
- 2 min
HEALING HABITS #4 acceptance
This universe, being interested in self-awareness and expansion, will line you - a little piece of universe - up with all kinds of...
- Jan 5
- 5 min
HEALING HABIT #3 - mindful morning routine
When I was in 12-step recovery, one of the one-liners I heard all the time was : 'If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.' The logic...
- Dec 20, 2022
- 3 min
HEALING HABIT #2 - practising self-compassion
If we didn’t know it already, we learnt it during the pandemic. The importance of touch. How natural it comes to humans to offer each...
- Dec 18, 2022
- 4 min
HEALING HABIT #1 - expressing gratitude
Healing has become a bit - or a lot - of a fluffy buzzword these days. What does it even mean? And how real is it? Is it just the...
- Dec 16, 2022
- 3 min
A HEALING KITCHEN RECIPE - sriracha, what else?
With The Healing Habits Retreat coming up (21-26 January in Andalusia, Spain - you can still join!), I’ve lately been more acutely aware...
- Nov 23, 2022
- 5 min
SELF-SABOTAGE - a losing game
I watch you scold yourself for buckling when the going gets tough. For doing that thing…again. You’re pushing forward, but at the same...
- Oct 24, 2022
- 3 min
THE OCEAN - everything that has a beginning has an ending
For some unfathomable reason the water doesn’t seem to flow in any particular direction, it’s not rushing on lineally, the way rivers and...
- Oct 20, 2022
- 7 min
HABIT MANAGEMENT - architect or victim?
"We don't rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training." This quote is attributed to Greek poet...
- Oct 4, 2022
- 3 min
NEW LIFE PORTUGAL - a review
An intense and beautiful stint at New Life wellness retreat and recovery centre in Northern Portugal just came to an end. New Life...
- Sep 29, 2022
- 3 min
SELF-COMPASSION - debunking common misconceptions
Until a few years ago, the term self-compassion gave me a queasy feeling. I associated it with meekness, self-indulgence, over...
- Aug 16, 2022
- 3 min
A WOMAN SAT DOIN' NOTHIN' - from my travel blog
Stationed in a camper parking area in the town of Évora, Portugal minding my own business. Also present, is an old woman, with a gypsy...
- Jul 12, 2022
- 1 min
VINYASA YOGA - a nutshell definition
Yoga literally means “union”. Most people in the Western world think of yoga as a physical training, but yoga is primarily a spiritual...
- Jun 16, 2022
- 2 min
EQUANIMITY - a go to when shit hits the fan
equanimity /ˌɛkwəˈnɪmɪti,ˌiːkwəˈnɪmɪti/ noun calmness and composure, especially in a difficult situation. "she accepted both the good and...
- May 12, 2022
- 5 min
MANAGING FEAR - my two cents as a solo traveller
Reading a post on Facebook recently by an ex-roommate on the topic of fear made me think about my experience and insights with this very...
- Apr 20, 2022
- 4 min
THE NINJA YOGI - from my travel blog
Hands down, still the most action movie-esque story to tell of my vagabond adventures so far. Protagonists : A Chilean dude named Ilan...
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