The basis of many literary works and movies is a main character – a masculine hero or a feminine heroine – who combats adversity and faces up to danger of one kind or another with ingenuity, bravery or strength.  Sometimes they sacrifice their own personal concerns for a greater good and emerge changed, transformed in…

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  I have to confess that until I went to college to study naturopathy as a mature age student, I had little clue as to how my body worked, or even what bones, organs or systems it consisted of.  Physiology classes, even though I found them incredibly difficult to understand, proved a continual source of…

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I was gifted a wonder filled, enchanting, illustrated book at Christmas – The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse. (sic)  The mole is a tad obsessed with cake – “If at first you don’t succeed, have some cake”.  Allow me to share my favourite dialogue: The mole says: “I’ve learned how to be in the…

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The EFT Self Care Toolkit Blog

When we are under any form of threat, and perhaps some of us feel more threatened at present than we have ever been – our body responds with a rapidly occurring chain of reactions stemming from the amygdala in the midbrain as it seeks to mobilise resources to deal with the threatening circumstances.   You probably…

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When I was a teenager and the Vietnam war was raging, I remember The Guardian newspaper being delivered each morning. There was perhaps one black and white picture and an article from the war front.  We had no TV, so a wireless with only a few channels available and a telephone situated in a very cold hallway were…

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The 'F' Word Blog

Big subject.  Tricky to write about.  But worth it, because it has been called the greatest healer of all.  Because forgiveness can give you back to yourself and bring you peace.  It can end suffering, improve your health, create freedom from judgement, anger, bitterness, resentment or even hate. Stop inner battles with yourself or the…

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Tapping for Creativity

As children, we are all creative. We can use EFT to assist us in whatever quality we want to enhance in ourselves.  Creativity is an intensely valuable quality and as children, we are all creative. The problem is that our creativity gets squashed along the way – and often our self-esteem with it. Others may…

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health benefits

I put two question marks because it’s such a big, important, pertinent question! Especially for someone like me who has experienced a great deal of anxiety, depression, and chronic illness throughout my life.  And especially when, as I quote from an opinion piece, “The dangers posed to international peace and security and the global economy, not to mention…

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Are You About To Get Hit By A Mack Truck

No, not because you are walking out into the road with your head buried in your phone, but because you are not listening to your body and overriding the alert that it’s giving you. Our body is always sending us messages, but in our distracted world it’s getting harder and harder to receive them. We’re…

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8 Health Benefits of Tapping

What does Tapping actually do? Happily, just as scientists have been unlocking many of the mysteries of the natural world, so too researchers have been unlocking the mysteries of tapping.   I confess my eyes glaze over with academic papers, but I do love the brain scans we now have where you can see the before and…

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