Self-compassion
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I really enjoy cooking. Through Im not exactly sure where this enjoyment came from. Yes I learned to cook in my twenties, though I do recollect cooking at school and also making myself food at times from the age of 15-16. I do vaguely remember not being able to cook a roast dinner, but realising…
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Just stopping by on the beginning of Christmas week 2022, in the midst of me getting ready to cook some food for my son and his girlfriend, and then as I travel on trains tomorrow and planes on Wednesday to be with my beautiful wife Christelle for Christmas. A moment of calm. Nat King Cole…
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A Morning Blessing by John O’Donohue.
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I have been amazed by the universe treasure moments that seem to arrive to me, chance encounters, free gifts in shops, writing in books that match what I’d been talking about the day before (no algorithms there) This was one yesterday. I’d bought this John o Donohue book in a charity shop about six weeks…
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After writing yesterdays piece on Self Compassion, I have spent time today reflecting, meditating and feeling through the following quotes. I share them here: You can’t have compassion unless you’re first willing to feel what you feel John Welwood : Between Heaven and Earth, principles of Inner work – in Weininger ‘Heartwork’ The path of…
James Ballantyne 