“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath […]
Small Steps, Repeated Often, Lead to Results
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” ~ Karen Lamb Did you get that thing about small steps? Let me repeat that for you. Small steps, repeated often, lead to results. This can work either way. Bad habits, even small ones, cumulatively will take us a long way in the wrong […]
What Are You Ready To Give Up?
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” ~ Mark Twain Tomorrow, the 17th of December, sees the beginning of the energies of the new year arriving. 2017 will show her face early this year. So that means today truly is the last […]
Need Help to Grow Your Heart-Centered Business or Business Idea?
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” ~ Thomas Watson, Sr The world is changing. There is a quiet revolution going on in corporations, in the business world, and in smaller businesses. That revolution is the emergence of soul-centered entrepreneurs who understand that […]
It’s here! Presenting #GeShiDoMo
“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” ~ Brian Tracy, The Gift of Self-Confidence November is nearly here! It’s going to be one of the best months I have seen in years for getting things done, for major breakthroughs, for going after what you […]
The Energies of September – 2016
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Hello, Lovelies Welcome to September. It’s such a lovely heart-centered month. A month for simplifying. For focusing […]
The Energies of July – 2016
“Do what you think is right. Don’t let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.” ~ Steve Maraboli Hello, Lovelies I apologise for this one being a little late, but I promise there is plenty of month left in which to apply all of this information. July is here, and a […]
The Energies of June – 2016
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Hello, Lovelies Welcome to June. June is a month for plugging ourselves into the wider […]
The Energies of May – 2016
“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” ~ Judy Garland “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then […]
Designing Your Future – Today!
“If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.” ~ Peace Pilgrim Today is a wonderful day to set aside some time for creating a […]
Super New Moon Ritual – April 7, 2016
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anaïs Nin It’s a New Moon! And not only that, it’s a supermoon, where the moon is at its closest position to earth during its natural orbit. This is the New Moon in Aries, also known as the Infant’s Moon. All new moons encourage […]
The Energies of April – 2016
“We need solitude, because when we’re alone, we’re free from obligations, we don’t need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.” ~ Tamim Ansary Hello, Lovelies Welcome to April! Let me share some observations about the energy of the month ahead, as well as a few suggestions for embracing all […]
Build A Time Capsule for Magical February 29!
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” ~ William James Today is a magical day. A day that appears only once every four years. […]
For Success – Just Be Who You Are
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ~ C.G. Jung “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” ~ Brené Brown […]
How To Develop A Conscious Relationship With Money
“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.” ~ Eckhart Tolle If you were struggling to lose weight, you might be asked to keep a […]
Meditation for Healing Your Relationship With Money
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” ~ Charles Dickens “Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” ~ Johann Wolfgang […]
Dear Discouraged Lightworker, Failed Healer, Broken Creative… A Letter of Encouragement
“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” ~ David G. Allen The year is young, and still fresh with the scent of hope and possibility. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, my inbox is filled with the sad, agonised and […]
2016 – Guidance for the Year Ahead
“If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others’. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the […]
Does Planning Your Future Press All The Wrong Buttons In You?
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” ~ Salvador Dalí “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ~ […]
Setting Clear Boundaries for 2016
“Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn’t make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don’t do things your way. I care about me too.” ~ Christine Morgan 2016 is a very important year, for many reasons. One is that it is a foundation year. Our choices in 2016 will […]
My 2016 Personal Planning Summit!
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery Today is a day I always look forward to. After a relaxing Christmas, and a delicious day of doing completely NOTHING yesterday, today I begin my personal Planning Summit for 2016. I’ve set aside four […]
December 2015 – What to Expect
“Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances.” ~ Su Williams, Dream Weaver Hello, Lovelies! We’ve almost made it through the year. Already we are under the influence of 2016 and her glorious possibilities, which is why December is an important month for tuning in to the […]
A Sneak Peek at My Secret Project!
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I always thought that the first book I brought out into the world would be a story. But it isn’t my story. It’s yours! Here’s the sneak peek I promised you of the project I have been working on. It’s a […]
What Bravery Looks Like
“I don’t like and even resist, being broken wide-open. But, when the contents of my unconscious self spill out of me and I sift through all the disowned parts of who I am… it’s an uncomfortably enlightening and eye-opening experience. It feels a bit like emotional bloodletting. I guess every now and then, I need […]
Stop Fighting Your Lack Of Flow
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still […]
This is How The Universe Works…
“There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” ~ Peaceful Warrior “Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.” ~ Celestine Chua A few days ago, as I sat at my desk early, early, early in the morning, looking at my […]
How Listening To Music Can Increase Your Abundance
“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!” ~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone On my last retreat I channelled through some information for the group about money and financial abundance. We were given a number of practical tips to help us to look after the […]
Getting Ready for August 2015
“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” ~ […]
Why you need to say YES to what you want!
“Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds” ~ E.E. Cummings Here’s a simple affirmation technique that can truly align you with abundance, and magnetise you to the things you desire to […]
Getting Ready for June 2015
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” ~ Eckhart Tolle “Dare to dream again. For dreaming is the language of your soul, And nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible.” ~ Jacob Nordby Hello, Lovelies <3 It’s June already. We’re nearly at […]
Water Oracle – For Embracing Opportunity
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away […]
Getting Ready for May 2015
“A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don’t have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sadness pass, like everything else, and are replaced with other experiences. The ego, […]
Getting Ready for April 2015
“And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!” ~ Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat “Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson […]
An Extra Healing Meditation
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ~ Charles Dickens Tonight I’m performing a special two-hour healing meditation, using the Love Mala I made earlier in the month. The purpose of tonight’s meditation is to help in the release of patterns of thought and behaviour that have limited […]
Start Where You Are, With What You Have
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” ~ Henry David Thoreau I was in the garden early this morning doing […]
Today Is A Powerful Day
“Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.” ~ Steve Maraboli Today, and the following three days, are powerful days, energetically speaking. Why? They are days for decisions. They are days for facing up to that thing. You know. That thing. The thing you’ve been agonizing over. That thing […]
Getting Ready for February!
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” ~ Peter F. Drucker “We are made to persist. that’s how we find out who we are.” ~ Tobias Wolff Hello Lovelies! February is nearly upon us, and I promised that I would support you in making the most of this […]
Top 10 Tips for Planning a Successful 2015
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit Well here we are, in the opening pages of a fresh new year. As some of you will […]
Power Word Meditation for 2015
“The more of me I be, The clearer I can see.” ~ Rachel Archelaus Today I’ve prepared a short guided meditation to help you to truly connect to your power word for 2015. If you haven’t yet chosen your power word go back and choose it here. If you have a crystal that you’d like […]
Choosing your Power Word for 2015
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” ~ Socrates 2015 is almost upon us, and already I can feel the opportunity and potential transformation that this new year brings. Choosing a power word will help me to focus, and make the most of 2015’s energy. Why a power word? I long ago gave […]
Direction or Destination?
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” ~ William G.T. Shedd Right now is a terrific time for planning. 2015 is almost upon us, and as the Captain of our own ship we get to choose where we will sail next year. Some of you might already have a specific […]
What’s up with this crazy End-of-2014 energy?
“If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present and your future – staining everything and everyone with their leftover emotional and mental garbage.” ~ C. JoyBell C. […]
Rune Giveaway and Facebook Party
“It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.” ~ Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope Hello Lovelies, I promised that during our Journal Challenge I would be having a weekly […]
Is it Time to Work Out What’s Holding You Back?
“When we pay attention, whatever we are doing – whether it be cooking or cleaning or making love – is transformed and becomes part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before; everyday life becomes clearer, sharper and at the same time more spacious.” ~ R. Fields […]
That Lovely Land Of Rest and Dreams
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora Daydreaming. That’s what I’m doing today. Daydreaming has a special magic. It allows you to try on different ideas and realities. It helps you to explore the future in a way […]
The Magic Of Momentum – How a garden can help you understand money, business and life
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~ Albert Einstein There is no better way to explain that magical force of momentum than through the wonders of a spring garden. Whatever you want to understand, a garden is a fabulous teacher. In winter we installed two new garden beds. I would […]
The Parable of The Sacred Plumber
“Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.” ~ George Meany “If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.” ~ Albert Einstein Once upon a time there was a small village, much like every other village everywhere. All of […]
Lovely, Lovely 3am
“You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It’s okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do. ” ~ Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year Every day, since I was around twelve years old, I […]
Guided Meditation for Anchoring into the Expanding Universe
“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.” ~ Alan Wilson Watts “To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at […]
Getting Ready for Our Final Guided Meditation
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on across the universe.” ~ John Lennon A few weeks ago I started a series of seven weekly guided meditations, and tomorrow I shall bring you the final meditation for this series. This last meditation is designed to anchor us […]
5 Tips For Creating Change
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” ~ Frank Zappa Change is rarely an overnight thing. True, lasting change usually requires more energy than that. Here are my five top tips for creating positive change in your life: 1. Don’t wait – begin it now. Don’t wait for the perfect time, for the […]
5 Helpful Questions for Your Monday
“At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.” ~ Leo Babauta Here are five questions to guide you this week. Ponder them, and put the answers into action in your life. Much love, Nicole xx 1. What do I most need to get […]
Why You Need to Stop Talking And Start Doing!
“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.” ~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun I’m guilty of it. I’m sure you’ve been guilty of it too. We have an idea. For a book. For a business. For a holiday. For a themed party. For something that excites us so much that we just have to […]
A Simple Exercise for becoming More Authentic
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” ~ May Sarton Ask yourself a question, just one question – and sit in your heartspace to listen for the answer. How can I be more authentic this week? To put this another way… What small steps can you […]
What’s your Power Word for 2014?
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” ~ Socrates I long ago gave away the practice of multiple New Years Resolutions. Just the thought of it overwhelms me. You know; all the things you are going to do, all the things you are no longer going to do – and then dividing those […]
Getting Ready for 2014 – Will you join me?
“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on […]
Thank you! We’re Two!!
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ~ Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Cauldrons and Cupcakes turns two today. Two years since my first uncertain foray into the world of blogging, with the auspicious post Ice-Cream Plum […]
Wishful Thinking versus Deliberate Action
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” ~ C. S. Lewis “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the […]
How to Have a Heart-Centred Year
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” ~ Gautama Buddha “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre I’m betting you’ve never had a year where you made yourself – your wants […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 8
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” ~ Gail Sheehy Congratulations! You made it to the final week of our Positive Change Program. This week’s about putting it all together, and then making a commitment to follow through on the dreams, plans and concrete steps we’ve identified in […]
Maybe Visualization Works After All…
“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” ~ Morpheus, The Matrix I have teetered between unwell and totally incapacitated for my entire adult […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 7
‘Throw your hat in the ring’ – Meaning: Make or take up a challenge, or demonstrate one’s willingness to join an enterprise. This week we’re getting serious about creating change, with my Throw your hat in the ring challenge! When we’re inviting change into our lives it’s important to think about the sorts of changes we […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 6
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”~ Paulo Coelho 2013 and 2014 are years for inviting and creating powerful positive change in our lives. And knowing that, there’s a decision to be made… Do I actively seek change and open myself to these energies, or […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 5
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~Lao Tzu There’s no point in merely thinking about change. Thinking is an important part of the process, but there is nothing quite so powerful, so […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 4
“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.” ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way That’s the thing about change. It requires room. […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 3
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow […]
Your Magical Free Ticket – Claim Now!
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ~ Lucille Ball This Free Ticket grants you permission to gift yourself an entire hour of your day. This hour is yours to use as you want. Here are the rules: You can […]
When you don’t know what you want…
“Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.” ~ Lemony Snicket Yesterday’s post was all about using your imagination to create a day designed around one thing – giving yourself emotional satisfaction and pleasure. I was thrilled with your responses – it’s such a fun game […]
Join Me for a Magical Carpet Ride?
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” ~ Albert Einstein I’m a firm believer in the power of imagination. Connecting in to pleasurable memories, imaginings or visualisations has a proven positive affect upon our mood, our creative ability and our energetic vibration. It reduces stress, inflammation and anxiety and helps […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 2
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the biggest obstacles to change is that feeling of overwhelm we get when we look at where we are now, and then at the distance between us and our goal/heart’s […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 1
“For things to change, you have to change.” ~ Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living There’s change in the air. We’re finally shifting away from those old energies, those old patterns, and into the beginnings of a new space. Change is always a little chaotic, and it can be unsettling and uncomfortable. But change also gives […]
Working to Create Positive Change – An 8 Week Program
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~ Jim Rohn We’re living in exciting times – times that are opening us up to great new possibilities and future directions. But how can we make the best of these energies of change that are upon us? Over the next eight […]
Tree Oracle Reading for Embracing Change
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Trees have long been known as Sacred Guardians of the Earth. […]
How Synchronicity Happens
“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.” ~ Charles de Lint Have you ever wondered how synchronicity happens? It’s a […]
Why do you keep running from the thing you want?
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” ~ Henry David Thoreau It’s a simple enough question. And today I’m asking you. Why? Why do you keep running in the […]
Nicole Cody’s Magical Owl Oracle
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”~ Khalil Gibran Owls have been such a dominant theme on my blog here over the past few weeks that while I’ve been swanning around in my pyjamas I thought […]
Will you join my Secret Dreams Project?
“Surround yourself with people who believe in you.” ~ Brian Koslow A few weeks ago I first blogged about my Secret Dreams Project. The idea for this project sprang from a life-changing experience I had as a child. When I was young I went to a funny little arts and crafts store in a tiny […]
Making My Life Work for Me – Week 6
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” ~ Harriet Tubman Welcome to the final week of our six week Making My Life Work for Me Program. (If you’ve only just joined us, you might like […]
The Secret Dreams Project
“Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will […]
Making My Life Work for Me – Week 5
“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” ~ Daphne Rose Kingma “There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.” ~ Jessica Hatchigan Welcome to Week 5 of our six week Making My Life Work for Me Program. (If you’ve only just stumbled upon us, pop […]
Making My Life Work for Me – Week 2
“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” ~ G. M. Trevelyan “Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, […]
Don’t tell me how good you are. Show me…
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ” ~ John F. Kennedy “Talk is cheap.” ~ Anonymous Today’s post has come about in part after watching a good friend be deeply wounded and disillusioned by the bullying actions of some […]
Making My Life Work for Me – Week 1
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher Welcome to Week 1 of our six week Making My Life Work for Me […]
Making My Life Work for Me! – A 6 Week Journal Program
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.” ~ Paulo Coelho I’ve been quite overwhelmed with the flood of messages and emails since yesterday’s post on Remembering to take care of YOU! Seems that many of […]
Remembering to take care of YOU!
“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Recently I received a message from a lovely lady, asking about balance: I thought of you […]
New Moon Creation Ceremony
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw Tuesday March 12 is a new moon. This is a powerful energy for creating positive change and manifesting your heart’s desires. It is also a great time for connecting into your own intuitive wisdom, and deepening spiritual connection. Everything is created […]
If I’m on my Path, why is it so rocky?
“Life wasn’t meant to be easy, my child, but take courage: it can be delightful!” ~ George Bernard Shaw I received an email from a student recently, who has just started working as a healer in a new clinic. It’s been her dream for many years, and she’s good at what she does. Here’s an except […]
Do you really need to start with a Grand Gesture?
“You just have to keep on doing what you do. It’s the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.”~ Meryl Streep Is there something you really want to do? Is there a dream or a goal, a vision you hold for the future? Maybe you want to be a […]
Dragging your tail into 2013? Maybe its not you…
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe So here we are in 2013. It’s shaping […]
Join my 2013 ‘Creative Project’ Challenge!
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things” ~ Ray Bradbury It’s the start of a fresh year, and all these days are stretching out in front of us, begging to be filled. And just like last […]
10 Ways To Be Kind to Yourself
“Kindness is the greatest wisdom.” ~ Author Unknown Mostly when we think of kindness, we think of how we can act towards others. But today I want to focus on another equally important type of kindness – that which we extend to ourselves. The beginning of the year is an opportune time for setting up […]
What’s your Power Word for 2013?
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1 The New Year – most people try to jam it full of resolutions. All the things you are going to do. All the things you are no longer going to do. It’s become quite vogue-ish to […]
2013 – Guidance for the Year Ahead
Happy New Year and welcome to the energies of 2013! New Year’s Day is always a special time for me. I like to welcome the day with meditation, a walk at the beach, and a swim in the ocean (one of the benefits of it being summer in Australia right now). Then over the course […]
Manifesting a Positive 2013 – An Invitation to Join Me
“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on […]
Gifts to Give Yourself this Christmas
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if […]
A Room of One’s Own…
Thank you, Virginia, for that most valuable of advice. When I was younger her quote didn’t make much sense – weren’t women independent now, didn’t we have the vote, weren’t we emancipated and equal and couldn’t we Have It All? A room? Goddam it Virginia, I’m a modern woman. I can buy myself a whole […]
Animal Messengers – Your Sunday Psychic Oracle
“Lots of people talk to animals…. Not very many listen, though…. That’s the problem.” ~ Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh The Animal Kingdom contains a wealth of wisdom, and today we are going to tap into that wisdom, to find a message relevant to us in our daily lives right now. I was inspired […]
Win a Healing Necklace, Made Especially For You!
This is the final week of my blog supporter love-up, and I’ve saved the best ’til last. So far the beautiful Anita has won the every.day.presence book by Simone De Haas. This week Tammy of onelittlestranger wins a crystal just for her, chosen and channelled by me. Congratulations, Tammy! I shall be delving through my […]
Choosing Crystals To Attract Love ♥ Part 2
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss Can you use crystals to manifest love in your life? You bet! But let’s be clear that you can use them at attract ANY kind of love. Romantic love, friendship, a creative project, dream job, […]
Choosing Crystals to Attract Love ♥ Part 1
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” ~ Stephen Chbosky So it seems that many of you like crystals, and the idea of working with crystals. And many of you have been asking me lately about love – how to love yourselves more, how to love others more, and how to attract love into your […]