May 18, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
Love in action We need people who love us enough to speak of our behaviours that do not reflect our beauty and truth. We need people who dare to care. They care more about us than they care what we think of them. This is love in action. It takes courage. My life is...
March 20, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Our first lie. When we were young, it left our mouths with sharp edges, disturbing the fabric of our identity. An inner voice, our personal Jiminy Cricket, or perhaps a sense of unease, wanted to be attended to. But we denied it the opportunity. Even though we knew we...
March 13, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
The rare art of listening This morning I am contemplating the rare art of listening. Why do I say it is a rare art? To listen. To desire to hear the whole, not the part, not the good bits, not the story you want to hear, but the story that is being told. This is rare....
January 29, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Deliberately Developmental Organisations
Surrender is not defeat – to yield – balancing dynamics in relationship To yield. As a single career oriented women I have way too much driving energy. I am a force field in my own right. This, of course, leaves a wake. Some damage, some sweetness. And it...
January 17, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
Threshold crossings shape us Threshold crossing is a part of regular life. We cross the threshold from sleep to awake. From morning to evening. From our private inner life to our outer expression. There are some thresholds that we skip across, and some that we are...
January 10, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Be your word Almost every day we are tempted to veer from our path. To make a small compromise. To submit substandard work. To tell a white lie. So easy to do. And one day we wake up and wonder how we arrived somewhere so far from where we hoped to be. The path to...
