by gemma | Oct 30, 2013 | beloved & praised, goals & dreams, inspiration & wisdom, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings, values & purpose
Dreams really do come true. The past six months was packed full of dreams turned reality. Doors swung wide open.Green lights all the way. I travelled to beautiful places, spoke at wholehearted events, played in the surf with my boys, wrote poetry {and people liked...
by gemma | Oct 17, 2013 | gems & precious bits, goals & dreams, health & happiness, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons
The journey from fear into love requires that we set and respect boundaries, both for ourselves and for others. It means that we gain clarity on what is a sacred yes and what is an honoring no. It means we dive into the depths of what has heart and meaning. It means...
by gemma | Sep 19, 2013 | beloved & praised, gems & precious bits, goals & dreams, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, mind & brain, thoughts & musings
Dear Life Designer, I know you have a secret dream, a longing, an aching. Something pulls at you, something brighter, bolder, more precious, more real, much more … you. That something is the life you love. I call it your great life. Great lives are not super lives;...
by gemma | Sep 12, 2013 | gems & precious bits, goals & dreams, health & happiness, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings
Questions are a beautiful thing. An important part of my work is finding the questions that lead people into their truth. The quality of the questions we ask direct the lives we live. Questions that are based in fear build a story that can imprison us, but questions...
by gemma | May 2, 2013 | beloved & praised, gems & precious bits, goals & dreams, health & happiness, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings
I’ve experienced a few transformative times in my life and have just edged through another one. I’m so freshly on the other side that sometimes I can still feel the discomfort of it. During this most recent and particularly challenging transformation, I have spent...
by gemma | Apr 5, 2013 | beloved & praised, gems & precious bits, goals & dreams, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, self love & self esteem, thoughts & musings
{the inspiration for the celebration} I lived in a small village in rural Guyana where the entire community gathered their drinking and washing water from a hole in the ground. This community was generous to host myself and a group of do-gooding youth, but our...