by gemma | Feb 1, 2014 | goals & dreams, health & happiness, love & fear, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings
We can’t help the things life has done to us. What we can help is how we choose to see ourselves and the world as a result of what has been done to us. Depending on what we choose to see, we can more deeply connect with our true selves. Your soul, your true self, is...
by gemma | Nov 20, 2013 | health & happiness, interviews & media love, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings, videos & ask gemm
Remember to love. I was blessed with a mentor whose last words to me were, remember to love. I shared the story of what those three words really mean, and how they have saved my life – and others at TEDxCanmore. Watch the video here. When I studied psychology there...
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 | 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...