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Work this way – a sense of entitlement
Work is supposed to offer meaning and gratification – you’re entitled to it.
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What did you do on your Summer Holiday?
The stresses and drudgeries that we frequently experience in everyday life appear to be a ‘given’, but do they have to remain that way. What if there were another way of living?
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The mosh pit of life
I once believed that a ‘mosh pit’ was the best place to be, but bruised and worn out after each concert I began to question how is the mosh pit like everyday human life?
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From dent to tend
I am tired of the self-denting thoughts of shame and regret; they are exhausting and kind of pointless. Next time I ‘dent the table’, I can see it differently—as a lesson to learn from, that’s it, so simple.
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Inner torment or sell out for fame – what’s the difference?
Rock n’ roll was a perfect fit for my dream, now the only thing I needed was for my band to become famous. But this part didn’t come as easily as I had hoped.
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Harmlessness and movement
Patanjali’s teaching of non-harm is a well known precept in the yoga world. But what if we take a deeper dive here and study the unseen harm and its very real effects that impact all of us globally and in every moment.
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Being a woman is more than being a mother
All this influenced the way I saw myself as a woman, and I identified with being a mother as an intrinsic part of what it meant to be a woman.
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An exploration of leering
Objectifying women has been part of men’s lifestyle for eons, to the detriment of men’s relationships with women and themselves.
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I may not be a scientist, but I’ve always been a why-entist
What if all we truly needed to gain a better understanding of ourselves, others and the world we live in was to simply nurture that innate curiosity we engendered as a child, and begin to use the interrogative word WHY to bring a deeper understanding to the true nature of our reality?
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Turning a blind eye to suicide
Why are the devastating numbers of death by suicide not making front page and news headlines everywhere, every single day? Does it have to be someone we actually love for it to affect and shock us into seeing the reality of how great an issue death by suicide really is?
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Enough
For most of my life I have never thought I was good enough. I am pretty sure I didn’t feel this as a really young child, but as I grew I can see now how the idea ballooned one breath at a time . . .
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'An Open Letter to Humanity' and the path of honesty
Honesty – it may just be the best thing you could do, the best medicine for our ills and our issues with life and other people. Only with honesty do we create space to change what is not working in everyday life.
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What does it mean to be a man?
One man on a journey and his jarring experience of manhood and the poison laid down in what it is being a man.
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Women’s thoughts about Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is considered a major mothering highlight after women become part of the motherhood fraternity! But what are women’s thoughts on Mother’s Day?
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Space – the final frontier
What is space? Is it the stars, the galaxies, the planets? What is all that space between them? Is that just nothingness? Explore the intelligence of space and what that means.
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How I quit smoking and found me
Today I am in my early 60’s and I have been smoke and alcohol free for seven years now, but the battle to quit smoking took me 16 years.
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Healthy sleep: It’s how I live
Anne struggled with sleep until learning that how she lives determines how she sleeps, and that this then determines how she lives.
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Measuring the form of behaviour – a failing of evidence based research in mental health
Tanya Curtis explores a major failing of evidence-based research in the mental health industry and asks the pertinent question: “is measuring form ever going to bring lasting change in human behaviour?”
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Fire
What is fire and fiery energy, why does it matter and what does it mean to you?
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Religion – We are all here together
Are our religious practices supportive of unity or separation? And how do these religious practices have us relating to one another?