by NATALIE | Feb 17, 2021 | Patterns & Habits
Don’t kid yourself. Everyone gossips (or has done at some point), even if it’s just a little or only with close friends. I know we like to think that we’re ‘better’ or squeaky clean, but we’re all human here. We might say that...
by NATALIE | Feb 10, 2021 | Patterns & Habits
For more than twenty years, I wouldn’t eat runny eggs thanks to the whole Edwina Currie salmonella egg scandal that happened in the U.K. when I was ten. I also get very twitchy about someone putting tins in the fridge–kept hearing about how dangerous it...
by NATALIE | Jan 19, 2021 | Patterns & Habits
Go easy on yourself. There isn’t a manual for how to do life. You didn’t wake up on your eighteenth birthday to a genie sitting at your bedside with a glowing manual. “Hello, welcome to adulthood. This is a timeline of everything that’s going to...
by NATALIE | Jan 15, 2021 | Patterns & Habits
There’s this common misconception that we humans put things off, delay, become overwhelmed or are indecisive because we are lazy. Social conditioning taught us that everything is a matter of whether we are ‘enough’–worthy enough, trying hard...
by NATALIE | Jan 1, 2020 | Patterns & Habits
Sometimes, we go to do something that we thought we needed or wanted to, and then resistance shows up in the form of confusing inertia, paralysis, anxiety, procrastination, discomfort, struggle and the like. We then appear to be going in the opposite direction or...
by NATALIE | Apr 29, 2019 | Patterns & Habits
So many of us are conditioned to feel as if we have to be The Strong One. Very often, we adopt this role for self-protection in our childhood. This helps us to cope and survive but becomes maladaptive when we stick with it in adulthood. We’re the one who...
