by gemma | Nov 7, 2016 | health & happiness, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings
Anxiety is a disorder of the future. Depression is a disorder of the past. Mindfulness brings you into the present {and, plenty of smart science tells us it’s a great treatment for depression and anxiety}. Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges from paying...
by gemma | May 19, 2015 | goals & dreams, health & happiness, love & fear, thoughts & musings
I’ve been searching for peace for most of my life and, thankfully, I’ve found a few practices that help me live in a state of peace most of the time. Here are five of my favourite practices for peace. 1. Cultivate Mindfulness When my mind is spinning into...
by gemma | Sep 10, 2014 | health & happiness, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, mind & brain, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies
Our unconscious mind holds a great deal of power over us. It makes decisions on our behalf, it guides our thought patterns and emotional reactions and it creates the filters we see the world through. Jung said it best, until you make the unconscious conscious, it will...
by gemma | Sep 4, 2014 | goals & dreams, health & happiness, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, mind & brain, relationships & sex, self love & self esteem, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies
After more than a decade of helping hundreds of clients love themselves and their lives you could say that Love is my quest. The most important lesson I have learned is to choose love over fear. Again and again. The rules of love and fear can be found in a tangle of...
by gemma | Aug 21, 2014 | goals & dreams, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies
Over the past twenty years, I have been on an epic journey of exploring how to heal the mind, body and spirit. In the past, there was a desperation in my search — a longing for more answers, craving higher credentials, impatiently gathering better tools. I was...
by gemma | Jul 23, 2014 | gems & precious bits, health & happiness, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, relationships & sex, self love & self esteem, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings
Self-examination does not necessarily lead to life balance or acceptance from others — it leads to greater freedom and authenticity. Without self-examination … … we seek comfort over greatness … safety over risk … reassurance over authenticity … the predictable over...
