Are you looking for a way to feel calmer and more balanced, to improve your health, your mood, or your connections with others? You might think that laughter is a superficial answer to your problems, but please take a few minutes to think again, while I tell you why I became a Laughter Yoga Leader […]
Laughter is Soul Medicine Read Post »
A re-write of my 2014 blog written for Valentine’s Day. I’m not a cynic and today is a good day to express my inner romantic and reflect on falling in love… I was with a client a few weeks ago discussing her relationship problems with her partner and we were remembering the stage in her
Love: is it 'blind' or 'second sight'? Read Post »
It’s for many good reasons that I have dedicated December as ‘Look after yourself month’ at Blue Skies. MIND – as a psychotherapist I know December is often a very stressful month for people with most of my referrals coming in January (straight after Christmas). Loss is experienced more acutely too. Family tensions and expectations,
Why Ho Ho Ho is the perfect affirmation for the Season! Read Post »
Do you ever find yourself saying or behaving in a way that takes you right off track from who you believe you are and want to be? As if you got in your car one morning to go somewhere beautiful and someone held a gun to your head and said, “No, drive straight to hell
..change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. Change does not take place through a coercive attempt by the individual or by another person to change him, but it does take place if one takes the time and effort to be what he is —
The Paradoxical Theory of Change Read Post »
Take a class in magic this term… In exploring the Body-Mind link on our workshop last month, Imogen and I used some exercises to show how the thoughts we have, create different bodily responses, regardless of the truth of the thought. We simply asked the particpants of the workshop to think a phrase and say
This morning I am interviewing my lovely yoga teacher, Phillipa Wilson over breakfast. Phillipa works in Derby and I have asked her to put her class schedule in this interview as I’d love for people to experience the enrichment that yoga brings to my life. Phillipa is quite a special friend and I hope you
Miriam's Wednesday Breakfast Blog with Phillipa Wilson Read Post »
Do you have your dreams, or do your dreams have you? Do you have your feelings or do your feelings have you? Do you have your job or does your job have you? Hold it lightly, then you can put it down when you have had enough. I wrote this sentence last week. I’m aware
Pause Gently: Hold Lightly Read Post »
In the last month I have attended two trainings : Personality Adaptations with Dr. Elinor Greenberg and Zero Balancing with Phil Greenfield. Both courses have taken me deeper into my quest to be able to understand difference and to respond to meeting the unique individual. Or from my heart, my quest to learn to love
Meaningful Connection Read Post »