Fostering Personal & Professional Growth & Development

SELF CARE If you are feeling down or blue, out of sorts or just plain ole fed-up it may be that you are out of balance in some area of your life.  Whilst we can consider ourselves to be a ‘whole’ person Humans are multi-faceted Beings which means as a Human Being there are many sides and depths to us which need fulfilling if we are to feel content, happy and balanced as a person who lives a fulfilled life.    As the illustration above suggests there are multiple areas to consider to getting

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM There’s an elephant in the room. It is large and squatting, so it is hard to get around it. Yet we squeeze by with, “How are you today”? and “I’m fine”. And a thousand other forms of trivial chatter. We talk about the weather. We talk about work. We talk about anything- Except the elephant in the room There’s an elephant in the room. We all know it is there. We are thinking about the elephant As we talk together. It is constantly on our minds For you see, it is a very

THE INVITATION It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to meet your heart’s longings It doesn’t interest me how old you are I want to know if you will risk looking a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of life. It doesn’t interest me what planets are spawning your moon I want to know if you touched your sorrow, if you have been opened to life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed, from further pain. I want to

Food for Thought We are all doing the best we can with the understanding, knowledge, awareness and skills we have. When we lose someone special and unique we also lose the unique relationship we shared with him or her.  As a Father you will have shared a ‘different’ relationship with your Child then if you are a Mother and vice versa; a grandmother, grandfather an aunty, uncle a sibling, cousin or a friend whatever the relationship each and every person grieving the loss of a loved one is

This circle of Love We sit in this circle To continue making some sense Of our sorrow and heartache That will never be spent This grief that none of us Would wish upon another To meet ....  Dare I even whisper? What we all know A circle of life complete The shock and the pain Causes me to be inside myself Lost a part of me that contained My precious you Yet the bond we have with our Precious ones forever to hold Is Love ... With love we can go forward So the Spirit and essence of our Child

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One day, a small opening appeared in a cocoon: a man sat and watched for the butterfly For several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.  Then, it seems to stop making any progress.  It appeared as if it had struggled as far as it could and it could go no further.  So the man decided to help the butterfly; he took a pair of scissors and opened the cocoon. The butterfly emerged from the cocoon with ease! But it had a withered body; it was tiny and had shriveled wings,

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