by awholenewyou | Jul 10, 2015 | Emotions, Food & Nourishment, Healing, Self-Care
Every time I asked “Why?” I got the same response: “It’s just one of those things.” When you’ve been brought to your knees with pain or illness, it’s really no help to hear this from your doctor. We don’t know why...
by awholenewyou | May 24, 2015 | Emotions, Healing, Meditation
I came across this video on The Overview Effect a few months ago and found it really thought-provoking. It features short interviews with astronauts who discuss how viewing the earth from their new perspective in space changed their understanding of who we really are...
by awholenewyou | Apr 13, 2015 | Emotions, Healing, Reiki, Self-Care
Don’t you sometimes get tired of how our culture celebrates perfection? It’s exhausting! And not just any kind of perfection, but a very specific, tightly controlled version of an ideal. Youth, we are told, is the perfect state. An unlined face, an...
by awholenewyou | Mar 12, 2015 | Emotions, Food & Nourishment, Meditation, Reiki, Self-Care, Uncategorized
Over many years of dealing with challenging experiences (read: really unbelievably difficult stuff that breaks you down before it builds you up!) I’ve learnt a thing of two about dealing with ‘dark nights of the soul’. When I’ve felt cast...
by awholenewyou | Aug 20, 2014 | Emotions, Meditation, Motherhood, Relationships, Self-Care
I loved this little snippet of wisdom from the always wise, Elizabeth Gilbert (writer of mega bestseller, ‘Eat Pray Love’) and thought you would too. It strikes me that this idea of generating our own warmth is the secret to happy relationships...