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Seeking the truth

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I heard this quote last night at the very end of a powerful and at times very disturbing film. The character is in a courtroom setting, and he is talking about ‘the truth’ and where and how we seek ‘the truth’.   We often confuse our...

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu has been a profound inspiration in my journey towards understanding and living a life of forgiveness and compassion.       His work and life were an embodiment of joy and peace and the gifts which he offered so abundantly and gracefully with the global...

An Ode to my father

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My father died suddenly on the 21st of December 1992. I was a student at University studying to be a Lawyer, and was on my way home on the train for Christmas.   My father would normally pick me up from the station. Instead, my brother Andy was there. Right there on...

Reclaiming our light-understanding and healing from shame

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Shame – we’ve all felt it, but for some of us its power becomes all-consuming. Until we’ve looked it in the eye, and consciously refused to believe its words, our lives will be shaped, shrunk, and dictated by it. Only when we heal from shame can we become who we’re...

The Space in between Livestream Weds 12th May 7p.m (Uk)

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Honour the space in between no longer and not yet. Nancy Levin The Pause. The Space in between. The excruciating place of being pulled back, and being pulled forward. The turbulence of not knowing, of change, of swirling, falling, hoping, fearing, releasing, trusting,...

Getting Un-stuck Livestream Weds 5th May 7p.m (Uk)

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‘You have to stop thinking that you will be stuck in your current situation forever. We feel like our hearts will never heal, or we’ll never get our fo this impossible struggle. Don’t confuse a season for a lifetime. Even your trials have an...