Come Fly With Me!

Inspired by having coffee at the beach with my beloved’s sister today I felt urged to share my thoughts on where I feel “we are at” in life, the Universe, the here and now, or whatever you choose to call it, in terms of our relationships. This mini blog is an instigator and prodder of inner and outer movement. Don’t continue to read if you are feeling sensitive!

Let me start by asking a few questions about your relationship right now.

Feel the answers that come and don’t rationalise them away because that’s all blah blah! Let your intuition (gut) guide your immediate answer.

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He Won’t Talk!

Oh so frequently I hear the cry in girlie gatherings “I feel like I don’t know him, he just won’t talk about his feelings!” Ladies, is this your mantra now or maybe in days gone by? I know I have been there and put myself through painful coercion techniques often born out of desperation because “We need to talk” has been the persistent mind torture.

It’s an interesting path strewn with expectations about how our men “should” be versus our willingness to know what we want and seek it out without trying to change or interfere with our partner.

As a starting point and with general liberal abandon, women seem to find it easier to express their feelings than most men (gents, no offence but it seems a fact in the majority), in my experience working with couples.

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Tit For Tat!

Does your relationship slip occasionally or frequently into the tit for tat spat? Don’t you just loathe it!

You say something, which granted may not be languaged that well, and your honey beautifully deflects the perceived criticism that’s about to land like a fly, by pointing out that, in their opinion, you do the same or in fact worse!

That puts our back up (triggers you, in my language), the irritant energy between you raises a few notches, you are compelled to retort and off you both go like a couple of unconscious tennis players; only the ball is a hot potato which neither of you is prepared to catch!

Tit for tat is in the dictionary. One definition is “Giving back exactly what one receives, blow for blow.” It made me laugh that it’s even reached the dictionary. A testament to some of our ”normal” societal languaging these days! And blow for blow suggests an intended verbal punch!

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The Art of Knowing Myself

Art is something personal don’t you think? We are all born with the ability to create and become an artist in whatever discipline we choose.

None greater than being your own artist discovering the lifelong shape of who you are. That means always being willing to know and learn about you. It is without exception the greatest journey of your life. It’s about experimenting with experience. It’s not about getting it wrong or right but merely learning about what feels good and what doesn’t and adapting towards more inner happiness through the choice of healing and growth.

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Together for Their Sake

Staying together for the sake of the kids. A very emotive subject but one I feel compelled to write about.

Firstly, I’m not a parent so don’t shoot me down with the “well what would she really know, she doesn’t have kids.” I hear you but I was a child with parents who existed in unhappiness together for most of their marriage and it really polluted my ability to make sound relationship choices for most of my love career. No question.

My belief is that if you are parents living in an unhappy marriage, do something about it or find a way out. Please don’t let it go on for years.

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What Does Your Shop Front Say About You?

If you were to paint a picture of who you are on the inside, what would you look like?

Most of us spend too much time making the best of our outer facade which is just “dressed” skin, muscle and bone structure at the end of the day. We are perceived blessed by media hype if we are stunning, handsome, beautiful or gorgeous and so disproportional outer emphasis is still intrinsically embedded into our psyche.

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How emotionally mature are you in love?

Most of my lovely couples come to me in relational angst when their bag of long standing coping “tools” has run aground and they have nothing left with which to communicate their feelings and needs in a healthy way.

Many couples just cope, rather than experience deeply fulfilling and nourishing relationships, because they feel, it’s “ better not to rock the boat…”, “it’s easier this way….” “I can’t bear the thought of losing my husband/wife, so I’ll doing anything…..” “well we have kids and so we must stay together…”

Too many arguments or the lack of them, create all sorts of symptomatic behaviour of two inner children trying to get their needs met, that somehow escaped them in childhood.

Have you ever noticed yourself or others, when you are in conflict, how childish the words and body language is?

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Has your honey got the eye?

I love the feeling of writing this because I know I have been a keen watcher of people who have “the eye” over the years. I was indeed many a time on the receiving end of boyfriends past, who had the eye.

I have heard a gazillion times “oh he /she definitely has the eye.” It seemed a common phrase when I was in my 20’s.

Let’s start by defining what I mean by “the eye.” Visualise this scene for a moment.

You are out with your honey at a party. You are having a great time but you notice the space by your side most of the evening because they are off chatting and mingling with others. Now many people love that their partners are free to roam and chat but what about when they find certain people more interesting than you, even though they swear blind that you are imagining it?

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Is Love Enough?

The purpose of my blog on love and relationships? Well, my life as a spectator is constantly throwing me a vast array of love topics which propel me, often with great speed to my laptop. I love to write, offering up my perspective in a “me, you” discussion and then I like to offer advice as an “experiencer” first, then an educator, on what maybe happening. It’s then up to you and your innate wisdom to take from it what feels right.

Would you do anything for love? And when you find love with another is it enough to have a long lasting and happy relationship?

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Grow or Go?

We are in a constant state of change and flux. Are you feeling it? Evolutionary progression is happening every minute and certainly during the last 4 years it feels like the Universe has put her foot on the growth accelerator and we are doing our best to hang on as the changes come thick and fast. Our body’s cells are in a constant state of birth and death and the cycle of life takes us through day and night, good and bad, happy and sad. Phew!

The symptoms of accelerated growth appear to me to be; the increase in people leaving the planet through disease (particularly cancer), planetary shifts (more natural disasters) and relationship breakups seem to be reaching an all time record. Divorce rates are levelling the marrieds at 50% a piece and long term 30-50 year marriages seem to be as rare as rocking horse dung. Maybe we are choosing at a soul level to experience our growth much quicker? Just a thought.

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