by gemma | Feb 12, 2014 | gems & precious bits, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings
When we reach rock bottom, and for those in mid-fall, there is always a bottom, there is a quest waiting. It’s a quest to find the truth of your life. It begins with asking, what do I want? Rock bottom was the solid foundation from which I built my life. ~ J.K....
by gemma | Jan 22, 2014 | beloved & praised, goals & dreams, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, meaningful & life lessons
I have seen time and time again people who step more fully into themselves once their life has fallen apart. It’s almost as though the crisis breaks the façade that was constructed, and once uncovered, the true self emerges. After being broken open, I’ve seen people...
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 23, 2013 | health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings
Everyone I know {myself included} has an addiction. Not a chemical or clinical addiction – an addictive coping strategy. Any reflexive response to stress, anxiety, uncertainty, or emotional pain is an addiction. – Zoning out with T.V.- Taking the edge...
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 | Aug 7, 2013 | health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, mind & brain, thoughts & musings
If we feel overwhelmed by life as an adult, or felt powerless as a child, three reflexive responses typically surface. One, we avoid that which seems overwhelming. This can show up as denying, procrastinating, repressing, running & dissociating. Two, we control...
