Typically, in an employed environment, employees are subject to an annual appraisal. It’s an opportunity to: - review your work, discuss any issues, and recognize your achievements; and hopefully to receive a pay rise. For the reciprocate, or staff member, it creates a sense acknowledgment, and validation for all the hard work that they’ve done. [...]
Any negative action or event, affects us on a visceral level. We feel the storm of it in our mind, body, and soul, as though we were a tree in a hurricane. We may experience real symptoms and can be susceptible to catching a cold, headaches, gastral problems etc, because we’re humans and not machines. [...]
When we do something on purpose, we can observe some interesting and helpful human characteristics at work. We are applying, aptitude, commitment, desire, and focus, and our only intention is to get the task done. We are highly productive because we’re acting purposefully, or in conscious thinking mode, as opposed to the foggy mind, that [...]
During the years that I have been posting my blogs, many of you have been extremely supportive about the positive way in which I deal with my cerebral palsy, and my upbeat attitude towards life as a survivor of child abuse… I am incredibly grateful to all of you – you have helped to keep [...]
Many external influences or life events, can alter the original version of ourselves. As teenagers we observe this on a fundamental level, such as with fashion, political beliefs, music taste etc. Of course, the friends and people we meet are vital in helping shape us in adulthood. Those lucky few of us have lifelong friends- [...]
Do you remember your excitement, when at primary school you grew your first ever plant from seed? Mine was cress, little dots of what reminded me of ground pepper, carefully placed within an old eggshell, sitting on a simple bed of moist cotton wool. The outer shell, complete with a blue felt-tipped smiley face… and [...]
When we love doing something, we’re totally absorbed in the moment. We are at one with ourselves, blissfully creating, and riding on the thermals of our own-made alchemy. It’s glorious being passionate about something we love, because it is moreish and so we keep thinking about returning to it, to enjoy more feelings of contentment. [...]
Many of us can relate to the anthropomorphic antics of the white rabbit in Lewis Carroll’s timeless childrens’ stories. The poor thing is always late, rushing around, and brimming over with nervous energy; which seems only apparent to the reader. He is further relatable to - since he functions, unbeknownst to him, on an undercurrent [...]
I’m happy to admit that I’m very much learning, as I go along- about how to navigate around my newly freed-up mind. I left the shackles of it in February ’23. Mind - combing is my own-made-up phrase, and method. It’s about stimulating and nurturing a growing sense of conscious awareness. Or living in awake [...]
Today my neck is hurting, it’s the nuisance of arthritis in the side of my body effected by cerebral palsy... and yet the pain is helpful. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want, nor welcome additional physical pain, but factually, and like everyone, especially as we get older, we can hurt ourselves - often without [...]