resilience

How to be Resilient Living with Terrorism

I am back from a working tour of Europe.  My muscles ache, my jaw is clenched tight, shoulders are pinched and my arms feel weighted down. You might ask, “Jacqui, has this got anything to do with the exorbitant load of your luggage, which you heaved lopsided through cobbled streets [...]

2020-02-24T14:19:32+13:00August 1st, 2017|

Compassion for yourself will help your relationships thrive

Happy, healthy relationships are vital for our wellbeing, and for many of us, our relationships are the foundation of purpose and meaning in our lives. Musicians, poets, writers, and anyone who has ever had their heart broken have all strived to understand the heart of why some relationships thrive while [...]

2020-02-24T14:11:45+13:00May 30th, 2017|

Let’s start making sense of our emotions

How many emotional responses have you noticed so far today? Gratitude and love saying good bye to your family as you leave for work, or frustration as you are stuck in wet weather traffic?  Maybe anticipation for an enjoyable meal with friends this evening or anxiety that you have [...]

2020-02-24T14:02:03+13:00March 30th, 2017|

How to stay slow

  Too much to do? Not enough time? Feeling frantic/overwhelmed? Feeling I’m not doing anything properly?   How many of these comments above resonate with you? It’s a dilemma that we are hearing more often, and it seems, more intensely. Many people have described to us how the dilemma of [...]

2020-02-24T14:02:40+13:00February 16th, 2017|