by gemma | Aug 28, 2014 | gems & precious bits, goals & dreams, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies
Summertime is my time to create. I see fewer clients, travel less, and reduce my speaking gigs. I spend more time communing with nature and connecting with my soul-family. This summer, my creative spirit has been devoted to writing a book. Today, I’m writing to...
by gemma | Mar 13, 2014 | health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings
Hurt, betrayal, disappointment, abuse, humiliation, criticism. At times, this adventure called life can be a rough one. If we are unable to move into a space of healing with these experiences they often fester into resentment, self-loathing, dissociation, revenge...
by gemma | Feb 12, 2014 | gems & precious bits, health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings
When we reach rock bottom, and for those in mid-fall, there is always a bottom, there is a quest waiting. It’s a quest to find the truth of your life. It begins with asking, what do I want? Rock bottom was the solid foundation from which I built my life. ~ J.K....
by gemma | Oct 23, 2013 | health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, meaningful & life lessons, thoughts & musings
Everyone I know {myself included} has an addiction. Not a chemical or clinical addiction – an addictive coping strategy. Any reflexive response to stress, anxiety, uncertainty, or emotional pain is an addiction. – Zoning out with T.V.- Taking the edge...
by gemma | Aug 7, 2013 | health & happiness, inspiration & wisdom, love & fear, meaningful & life lessons, mind & brain, thoughts & musings
If we feel overwhelmed by life as an adult, or felt powerless as a child, three reflexive responses typically surface. One, we avoid that which seems overwhelming. This can show up as denying, procrastinating, repressing, running & dissociating. Two, we control...
