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 | Jun 30, 2014 | gems & precious bits, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, mind & brain, self love & self esteem, thoughts & musings
We are wired to seek pleasure. We are wired to avoid pain. Everything we are and everything we do is based on these two principles — the decisions we make, the thoughts we think, the actions we take. Freud, one of my fathers, said we may lay it down that...
by gemma | Jun 11, 2014 | beloved & praised, goals & dreams, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, meaningful & life lessons, mind & brain, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings
In my work with clients, one of the first things we untangle are limiting beliefs. I’m not worth it.I’m not good enough.I’m not loveable.There’s not enough time, money, energy.I’ll never get out of this place.Life is too hard.I’ll...
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...
