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The Illogical Order Of Life with Dawn Bates
Meet the inimitable Dawn Bates: prolific author, human rights activist, and a personal and business mentor that gets the most incredible results in a really short space of time. She’s also an inveterate giggler, so …
Why Writing Your Life Story Is So Important
When Joanna Dolan’s daughter was diagnosed with cancer and the doctors started asking for family medical history, Jo realised how little they actually knew about it all. The family believed that Uncle John died from …
How To Get Off The Dieting Roller Coaster Forever
Shari Ware spent almost her entire life morbidly obese. By the time she left High School, she weighed 100kgs. At her maximum weight, she was over 180 kgs (she never had the courage to find …
How To Use Yoga To Help Relieve Menopause Symptoms
Amrit Kendrick started yoga when she was 30 to help her to chill out a bit and maybe get fitter. She got the yoga bug, learning more and more about the discipline, becoming a teacher …
How To Create A Relaxed and Raunchy Relationship With Your Partner
After spending over a decade in the Spa industry and then achieving her qualifications in Counselling & Life Coaching, Ingrid decided to amalgamate the two disciplines and invent an entirely new way of healing & …
Not Fit For Human Consumption
It’s interesting when you try to find out things about Menopause, because all of the information is either really vague or really generic: you may experience this, you might find that, this other thing could …
Why You Need To Jingle Your Spoons
“You just need to jingle your spoons, Mum.” This was Ryan’s response when I told him that I’d got off a phone call with a friend and felt exhausted. It turns out that there is …
Why Your Kids Are Failing In School
When my daughter came back from a 3-month stint in Colombia, she was full of all these entrepreneurial ideas: making money was easy, building businesses was a doddle, and creating new things was just so …
How This Woman Got Out Of Her Wheelchair Permanently
What kind of thing would make someone who’d spent several years in a wheelchair, just get up out of it and never sit in it again? That was the question that made Elizabeth Anne Walker …
How To Spot A Toxic Coach
Have you ever experienced a toxic coach? Whether that’s a life coach or a sports coach or an arts teacher/theatre director? The amount of damage that a toxic person can do to others is phenomenal, …
Are They Just A Self Centred, Egotistical, Narcissist?
THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING TRUE TO YOURSELF AND BEING A SELF-CENTRED, EGOTISTICAL, NARCISSIST Wheeeewwww, no holds barred on that title, then? Let’s go back almost four years. I started working with someone who is all …
How To Live A Life Of Joy with Chiara Sharp
I was in a bit of a weird space when I got on the call to Chiara and I needed to just get that out there and get it out of my space. It …
Are You A Pretty Awesome Person?
I had the comment from my friend about how she believed that she was an amazing person (read about it here) on my mind when I spoke to my mentor, Karly Nimmo, yesterday. We had …
I’m A Pretty Amazing Person
These are my musings, right? I could turn this into a long-winded lecture about how we could all start accepting ourselves as who we are, blah blah. I’m not gonna. Partly because I don’t like …
The Guilt and Grief of Midlife
I don’t know about you, but by the time I reached my fifties, I was an absolute MASTER at feeling guilty and being sad about what I’d lost and would never have again (think: cuddles …
Weirdly, The Word For 2020 is… Wonderful Connections
At the start of the year, if I’d been thinking about a word that was going to describe my experience in the coming year… …and to be honest, I didn’t do that because I didn’t …
Are women really still fighting for equality?
I did a degree in construction back in the 80’s. I was one of 6 women in the UK doing my job when I graduated, I worked on building sites for 5 years and I …
The Subtle Ways Women Are Silenced
I’ve never really experienced sex discrimination or gender inequality. At least, I didn’t think I had. Till I read a book and started doing some research and then I realised just how much of a …
Depression, Sleep, and the Need to be Social
Podcast Episode 9 It’s well known that insomnia can lead to depression and anxiety and vice versa, but there are a few things about sleep that I’ve discovered recently, along with the impact that social …
How to be a Succesful, Happy and Single Mother of Five
People think I’m busy, that I’ve always got a tonne of things on and I can’t sit still for five minutes, but I’m a complete novice compared to my friend, Stephanie. After moving to Australia …
How To Have The Best Day Ever
😂💖 How To Have The Best Day EVER 💖😂 In this episode, I share what got me out of the dark hole that I was in a few years ago and the things that I …
If Life Goes Smoothly For Too Long, You’re Probably Dead
In this inaugural episode of Menopause, Marriage and Motherhood, I talk about some of the ups and downs of life. I have to say, this was by far the most difficult and confronting episode to …
100 S**t Hot Journaling Questions
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Have yourself a Miracle Morning
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