I have been writing in journals all my life. From the moment I could string words together, using different colours of crayon for each letter of each word, I kept little personal diaries of thoughts and reflections. As someone who has always leaned toward the introverted, journals are the place where my voice has alwaysContinue reading “It All Begins at Home”
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Random Thought: Finding Yourself is and Inside Job
When I was in my 20s, I felt like I needed to go away [to escape] in order to “find myself.” I didn’t believe I could do it while surrounded by the same people, the same routines. I had a whole plan, a specific destination in mind—the place where, after some years spent in anContinue reading “Random Thought: Finding Yourself is and Inside Job”
Random Thoughts: Keep Your Business to Yourself
In the beginning, during a period of change, it is best to keep your business to yourself. Often, we share our desire to change (and our ideas on how to create change) with the world—or at least, our friends and family who know us most. Sometimes we do this for the sake of accountability, toContinue reading “Random Thoughts: Keep Your Business to Yourself”
Random Thought: Look Your Feelings in the Face
Anyone with an interest in the Law of Attraction understands the relevance of positivity. Yet too often we forget that positivity must be genuinely felt if it’s to provide any value at all. We may be able to trick ourselves, but we can’t trick the Universe. There is a rainbow of emotions that exists, andContinue reading “Random Thought: Look Your Feelings in the Face”
How Some Ancient Wisdom on Feelings is Helping Me Now
This might sound crazy but I only recently discovered, as a forty-something woman, that it’s better to recognize, pay attention to, and acknowledge the feelings within you, rather than hide from them or try to outrun them. I probably already knew this in theory, but I certainly didn’t know this in practice. It’s funny toContinue reading “How Some Ancient Wisdom on Feelings is Helping Me Now”
Wonderul, Colourful, Magnificent
About 18 years ago I wrote a children’s story. I decided that I wanted to do the illustrations myself, but it was one of those things that just intimidated me. How to do it? Could I do it? Would they turn out? Etc etc. I had the images in my mind, I just wasn’t confidentContinue reading “Wonderul, Colourful, Magnificent”
Maria Giuliani 