I first heard the music of Franco Battiato while browsing through a cute clothes shop in a 15th century building in the island town of Ortigia (Siracusa) in Sicily in 2016. I had returned to this place, which I first visited in 2014 while recovering from a major heartbreak, and I was loving the summer vibe of this town. It thought I must have stumbled on La Bella Vita…
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A post about my experience as a busker in Siracusa, Sicily.
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This month (October 2021) is the month of Libra. It’s the sign of balance and harmony. Libra is an Earth sign, so Librans are generally very stable and grounded people. One of my best friends in Majorca (from when I lived on that island for 5 years) is a Libra, and was a primary school
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The journey of life is equally and inner and an outer journey. We have to interact and relate with the external world all the time, but we also need to be interacting and relating with our internal world. If we neglect the inner world and are focused entirely on the external, then we will lose touch with ourselves, and if this goes on for too long we’ll find we no longer know who we are. If you have ever been in an abusive relationship, you will know what this feels like.
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Carl Gustav Jung was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who worked in Switzerland in the early part of the 1900s. Initially a kind of apprentice to Sigmund Freud (AKA the father of psychoanalysis), he later became his colleague and heir apparent, following in his mentor’s footsteps into this relatively new field of psychology. While Freud was quite
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The three foundations of Self Love are: Develop a Loving Inner Voice Do what you Love at all times in life Build a community of Supportive, Loving friends. Many of us have an inner voice that is more like an inner critic and an inner judge than anything else. It’s a voice that’s always keeping
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As an empath myself, I have attracted quite a few people who might be termed ‘narcissists’ or that they have ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ into my life. As a very sensitive and deep feeling person, an empath is like a magnet for a person with narcissistic tendencies, because what these people love most of all
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My most popular meditation on the Insight Timer App with over 13,000 listens and 1000 reviews is one of the first ones I uploaded, over four years ago, called ‘Let Go of Your Story’. Given this response, it’s clearly something that many people resonate with. The meditation addresses the fact that many of us have
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I believe that right now we are in an age – the Age of Aquarius – according to the astrologers, which is an age when as a collective we are maturing on the emotional level. More of use are learning emotional intelligence, thus boosting out EQ (Emotional Intelligence) and becoming agents of positive change in the world, or as Jamie Catto tags it, ‘Walking Permission Slips’.
I created this ‘Emotional Emergency Pause’ guided meditation to help you through an overwhelming feeling experience.
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What is Soul Alchemy?
In this article I discuss three pillars of what I call Soul Alchemy, AKA, slowly, over time, transforming negativity towards your self and towards life, into creative fuel that you can use to power up your life and realise your dreams.
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