A Wellness Path

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Nose to the Grindstone – Northland Adventure

If you put your nose to the grindstone rough, And keep it down there long enough, You will soon conclude that there are no such things, As a brook that babbles or a bird that sings. These three things will your world compose: Just you, the stone, And your ground-down […]

Time to Lasso those Varmint Thoughts

Time to Lasso those Varmint Thoughts

We all have thoughts that rumble on through the grey matter: some good and helpful, some not so good, and actually unhelpful. I know for me, some of my thoughts have a particular theme. If I could box them and categorize them, I would have multiple files of thoughts. Some […]

how-do-you-respond-when-someone-stabs-you-in-the-back

How do You Respond When Someone Stabs You in the Back?

How do you respond when someone spreads rumors about you, gossips, lies, pretends to be your friend while really all they are doing is using and abusing you? A stab in the back. Perhaps they influence other friends to their side of the story. You’re having rotten tomatoes thrown at […]

Rewriting the Script–How to Change your Brain

Rewriting the Script–How to Change your Brain

I had heard the same thing over and over and over again from this person. Self-doubts, questioning, cynicism, fear all mashed together to be an ugly serving for the day. They had learned the script over the whole of their lives. Repeated it, rehearsed it, played it out on so […]

Reaching 50, not out.

  Brendon McCullum knocks one off to the side ‘With a quiet nod to the applauding spectators he looks around the ground knowing he has a lot more work to do if New Zealand is going to save this test. Brendon McCullum, 50, not out’ Radio Sport commentator I was […]

P.L.O.M. (Poor Little Old Me)

P.L.O.M. (Poor Little Old Me)

It’s an acronym I learnt this week from All is Grace, Brennan Manning’s memoirs. He was describing his time in a rehab facility for his alcoholism when he received feedback from his fellow alcoholics in a peer review worksheet. I SEE YOU USING THE FOLLOWING DIVERSIONS TO KEEP FROM DEALING […]