I blogged recently about the cost of not having an ending, of what happens when a relationship just stops, without it’s passing being honoured. In contrast today I want to talk about the power of a well managed ending. It’s on my mind because I had a powerful experience of ending recently, with the women in the Soul Circle I attended for 6 weeks. Eons ago, Stephen Covey recommended we begin with the end in mind. This is good advice, not only in the way of knowing what you

Rumi’s beautiful poem, The Guest House, invites us to embrace all comers in our inner world, to welcome our emotions as the messages they are. Here’s a meditation on Doubt that I wrote back in 2012, in this same spirit of welcome. Wishing you a weekend filled with love, in all its forms. Doubt Doubt curls up, a fiery, gnarled ball in the pit of my stomach Fear, anxiety, my emotions flash with intensity And all at once I am like a small child Clamouring for comfort and reassu

The opposite of repression and suppression is not expression, its awareness. I heard Andrew Seubert make this excellent observation in a training seminar recently. Oftentimes I hear clients reflect that they would rather not experience what they feel and honestly think, because to do so would be dangerous. If we see the opposite of repression as expression, then indeed, expressing things that challenge others may well at times feel inadvisable or even threatening. It’s impo