Published under "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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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