New Self-care Strategies for Better Balance April 28th 2023 Basic NLP Ithought I had self-care and Self care (that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most miraculous part of yourself) pretty well figured out. I’d done so much... Continue reading...
Giving Feedback and Setting Boundaries January 26th 2023 Basic NLP Attempting to see everything as information and to not argue with reality helps me take some of the charge out of heated situations, especially when... Continue reading...
Identifying and Releasing Unworkable Strategies October 28th 2022 Basic NLP I’ve been doing an enormous amount of inner child work lately. I’ve been doing it for decades (trauma therapist = occupational hazard), but never as... Continue reading...
Are You Afraid to Change Direction July 28th 2022 Basic NLP When we use all our senses and honour our capacity for flexibility, we stop judging ourselves for letting new information or sensations adjust our course. Continue reading...
Strategies for Life from Yoga and Gardening April 28th 2022 Basic NLP In yoga, there’s an expression about how you are on the mat being how you do everything. The idea is to encourage a greater awareness... Continue reading...
Welcoming Feedback January 28th 2022 Basic NLP I’ve been thinking a lot about failure recently because, apart from one element of my work (the freelance journalism) involving more rejection than many other... Continue reading...
Sensory Acuity October 28th 2021 Basic NLP Can you imagine back then if we’d known how long things would drag on for? As we learned to live in a very different way,... Continue reading...
Overcoming Resistance July 28th 2021 Basic NLP By reframing the focus to a far better formed outcome of balancing the blood sugars to help balance the hormones and minimise the symptoms, I... Continue reading...
Celebrating Life's Milestones April 28th 2021 Basic NLP When did you last take the time to celebrate an enormous accomplishment? What about a smaller achievement? How about all the little steps on the... Continue reading...
Moving from Digital to Analogue January 28th 2021 Basic NLP In NLP, we talk about analogue as being on a spectrum. Imagine the hands slowly moving around the clockface, step by step. On the other... Continue reading...
Deleting Distorting and Generalising for 2020 Vision October 28th 2020 Basic NLP As babies and infants, we quickly learn to delete, distort and generalise as we take on board more of the world. If we didn’t, life... Continue reading...
What helps you feel resourceful July 28th 2020 Basic NLP There are many things I can’t do. I’m not a parent so I have no idea how most of y’all manage to keep growing souls... Continue reading...
Are you in a resourceful state April 28th 2020 Basic NLP If you’re anything like me, you did your training, resolved to integrate all of it after further study, but then put your doorstopper training manual... Continue reading...
Tiny Tweaks January 28th 2020 Basic NLP Today something incredibly basic made a big difference. A lot of the things I’m dealing with are understandable (early stages of learning to drive, cycling... Continue reading...
The power of a good (short) wallow October 28th 2019 Basic NLP When I first came across NLP, around 2004, I was already qualified as a life coach and loved the emphasis on resourceful states and circles... Continue reading...
Default Strategies July 28th 2019 Basic NLP Preparing for over a year to move from Essex to the west coast of Ireland, from the time I signed contracts in January until March,... Continue reading...
Problems Helping April 28th 2019 Basic NLP Think of a problem you’re currently up against. There’s the famous Einstein quote about not being able to solve any problem at the level at... Continue reading...
Power Place January 28th 2019 Basic NLP I adore Marie Kondo. Her Life-changing magic of tidying was a book I bought myself thinking it would be helpful for some of my clients (I... Continue reading...
Sensory Acuity October 28th 2018 Basic NLP Noticing how whatever we’re doing is working for us (the ‘sensory acuity’ part) – and having the flexibility to adapt our approaches when we realise... Continue reading...
Senses Navigating July 28th 2018 Basic NLP For me, while mostly being a ‘towards’-motivated person, it’s never been more apparent than in the last, at time of writing, 11 weeks. Before this,... Continue reading...