Contemplations...

Recently, a friend wrote ‘I’m not myself at the moment’. It caught my attention because it’s a phrase I used often earlier this year. Lately, I’m saying ‘I feel more like myself again’. What on earth does this mean?! I know, intellectually, that ‘self’...

Recently, I had toothache – the kind of acute pain that consumes attention. My cheek was hot and sensitive to touch. I was eating gingerly and cleaning my teeth with extreme care. My life contracted around the pain. Even now, the area remains tender –...

A fellow coach, Eileen Moir, recently offered me the privilege of reading a piece of reflective writing about her journey with a life-long challenge. Although the piece focused on something specific to her, she touched on universal themes such as the...

Whilst I’m no longer doing regular client work, I continue to support a group of Leadership Embodiment (LE) practitioners to maintain their practice. In the most recent day we spent together, a perennial question arose: how do we make good on our intention...

In a period of transition towards a less workful life, I’ve been reflecting on a post I wrote nine years ago. It described the careful dismantling of a factory opposite my previous home*. In it, I wondered how we might pay more attention to the way we...

Recently, I ventured back to Five Winds School of T’ai Chi Chuan. I was last there in February 2020 – and we all know what happened next. With physical contact off-limits, I kept up my T’ai Chi Chuan practice by doing the beautiful solo forms of this...