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Inner Critics - Part 3 - How to Start a Dialogue

(You can read "Part 1 - What Are They?" and "Part 2 - Who Are They?" here.)
In the previous installments of this series, I mentioned what & who Inner Critics are, but not really how to start interacting with them.
Well, okay, I did mention the first step - identifying and “making” a character out of them. So, let’s quickly review...

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The Art Of Slowing Down

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Busyness
Busyness is the new currency by which we measure our success and probably fulfillment. It has become the status symbol no one talks about, woven into our work, and lives. If you are not busy you do not have a life!

Busyness is reflected in our phones and computer screens...

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Let’s Talk About Love, Baby

Reflections after Valentine’s day.
February is a terrible time of the year.

There is absolutely nothing happening. Not a holiday in sight. Everyone is still broke from their Christmas efforts and a depressing long, dry January. It is still cold and grey, rainy as well if you are particularly unlucky. Often, we can at least have the consolation that it will go...

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Relationships!

Oh relationships… love ’em, hate ’em, however you want to approach them, they are going to be a regular part of your life unless you are a hermit or a solitary monastic.

It is the utter existential quality of human beings that we are social creatures and nothing we do can really undo that fact. Most, if not all, of our mental...

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The Beauty of Being Human

A few months ago a friend of mine told me that her five year old had turned around and asked her out of the blue: “Mum, how do I know I am not a robot?”.

My friend was positively surprised — the little one had not had a chance to watch “The Matrix” yet, so her question came from a genuine...

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Let’s Talk Change

Change. Everyone’s best friend, right?
Not according to… just about everyone I’ve ever met or ever read. Why do you think the self-help industry and healing industries are so prolific and lucrative? Why do you think we are constantly trying to be better, more explored people? Constantly seeking spiritual growth?
Deep down, at least usually on a deeply unconscious level, we...

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Loving Art-Making in Times of Resistance

Growing Wings
In the past months, I have seen a renewed confidence in my abilities involving creative energy. That I love making art and being an artist, has never been questioned. It brings me such joy to go about challenges calling for imagination and firing up the wide net of invisible and visible connections that make up for, well “me”. I...

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Honoring the Passions We Can't Do (Right Now)

We multipotentialites at any given time have a multitude of varied interests and passions swirling around us like so many planets in orbit.

As the New Year begins, we might be looking over our interests, maybe with delight, maybe with excitement and anticipation, but also maybe with a little bit of overwhelm (okay, a lot), and possibly some dread.

There are so...

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Emotional Venting

A Cycle of Negativity Hard to Break
These past months have been a revelation about the way I tend to assimilate life’s events. I am both, surprised and annoyed by the realization of how parts of myself working against each other may have contributed to bringing about the kind of wavering outcomes that leave me baffled or plainly frustrated.

I consider myself...

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I Am OK. Really, I Am OK.

I am OK. Really, I am OK.
Though I know I am not.
2014 feels like a lifetime ago. It was a busy period, as I had just started working for a new manager in my company — it was all about how to adjust to the new team, the new boss and environment, This is London, what else to think about...

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Inner Critics - Part 1 - What Are They?

Well, who ain’t plagued by big, bad, and nasty Inner Critics with their superpowers of making us feel super bad about ourselves and all that we want to do in our lives. We want them to just shut up and go away.
But I’m here to tell you that we can’t, and shouldn’t, make them shut up and punt them onto...

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A Technophile’s Waxing of Love for Technology

To those who know me, I am a rabidly unrepentant technophile. It’s true, I love technology. I mostly love the idea of it, the potential of it, the ways in which it can open up whole universes to us. My husband can’t walk past a hardware store, and we both can’t walk past an art supply store, without the swell...

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As It Is.

It’s sort of a funny thing as I write this piece about acceptance that I am having a hard time really accepting things right now. Even writing this has been a struggle… I just want to crawl in a hole.

But let’s at least discuss the concept of Acceptance. Unfortunately, the “buzz word” culture has spread far and wide, and somehow...

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The Space Around Closed Doors

Embracing Uncertainty
“As You’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” - Obi-Wan Kenobi told us in Return of the Jedi
I was just chatting with a newfound friend about the circumstances we find ourselves today and the irony of it all. I consider myself a social media introvert, and...

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TMT & Immortality: Or, Turning 49

So, today I just entered the last year of my 5th decade, the last year of the first half of the first century of my life. Well, the last century too, I suppose. But that’s the problem, isn’t it? Next year, I turn 50 and still, unfortunately, and to my bafflement, am not immortal.

It is a question my husband and...

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Maybe It’s Not So Bad to Be in the Middle

In the midst of all that is going on, especially the pandemic, I’ve noticed a lot of confusing messages, with two that might be extra confusing for us multipods**:

You should take this time to slow and relax from all that you do.
You should take this time to learn/create something fabulous and amazing.

So, which is it?

There is a lot...

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New Beginnings

The Double-Sided Edge of Unexpected Events
I am not one to set resolutions for the new year, just someone inclined to close loose ends from the old one. Perhaps it is superstitious intuition, or the fear to invite non-supportive energies to taint an opportunity unfolding. Whatever drove my actions before, needs reflection this year.

This past November, a deliberated fire next door...

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In the Midst of It All, Spring

When I was younger (teen-hood, from 12 to 18), I lived in Greenville, NC. When we moved there, there wasn’t much by way of a connected community for us.

But my mom quickly met up with the local artsy community, starting up a contra dance and local artist event group. We did find the local Friends, as in the Society of...

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How Time Traveling Changed My Life

How time traveling changed my life
It was the summer of 2015 and a bunch of friends and I had decided that it was the ideal time to enjoy a cultural holiday and visit Rome for a week.

Frankly, once out of England I don’t usually give the weather report a second thought, so I had just thrown in some shorts and...

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Everyday Is a New Day

Emotional reinvention in the age of Coronavirus

May is upon us. April, if not the cruelest, was indeed a lost month. Most of us barely noticed that it came and went while we were still focused on getting used to a frightening, uncertain situation.

Which was kind of inevitable, really. Even when only small adjustments are required, we often sleepwalk our way...

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Fear Of Missing Out?

New Year’s festivity brings both, a sense of excitement and introspection. For many years I have attached a “theme” to my intentions for the upcoming 12 months born from the reflections and lessons learned and the longings of my heart.

It begins with simple questions

What challenges did I experience?
What did I learn about myself and the world I inhabit?...

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The Turning of a New Year

Technically, the idea of time as a definable “thing”, is a human concept.

Sure, there is the inexorable forward progression of time (at least that we know of); the turning of the planet, the rising and setting of the sun, seasons changing, the process of aging, etc. We can see “time” at work all around us. This is, without a doubt,...

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Showing Up and Doing You in a World of Social Media

“Living a double life” is a concept we hear about in movies, series_ and some dreadful divorce stories. I wonder if the number of people who can relate to it would surprise us. My life, for many years, followed suit. It was during high school late years that I entered a contentious space were different definitions of a “good life”...

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Inner Critics - Part 2 - Who Are They?

(You can read "Part 1 - What Are They?" here.)
In the previous installment of this piece, I mentioned what Inner Critics are, but only a tiny bit of who they are.

They are our Protectors. And they protect us by any way and any method they can.

These are our Younger parts, from infants to adolescents, maybe some young adults tossed in....

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In Love with the Grandeur of Humans

It’s February and what we odd humans consider the month of love. And despite our weirdnesses as a species, I just love humans so much.

Grief and Grandeur
Long ago, I formulated something I call The Grief and The Grandeur to describe humans (I am still working on a long article to talk about this in detail), a recognition that we are...

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A Ripple in Time. Riding the Tides of Emotions

Changing moods appear to be the new fashion in my life, their colorful shapes hanging like Prêt-à-Porter clothes on a store rack. I pick up one, and then another, and another until is time to try a pile. The less I go into the fitting room the better. A couple of hours later I am leaving the store empty-handed and...

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No Nemo? Keep Swimming!

Turning the Tide in Our Favor
She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” - Elizabeth Edwards
I finished reading a novel that constantly hints Dory’s words in Finding Nemo:
“When life beats you down, just keep swimming, keep swimming, swimming”.
It just hit me how much meaning this message has in my life!...

The Soul of Resilience. Turning Wounds into Gold

One of those sleepless nights that seem to be plaguing me lately, I opened my tablet and clicked on some streaming app of the many that have joined my screen during the pandemic. TV has a dozing effect on me, I chose some random movie about coming to age and first love. The only thing that left an impression was...

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Living Vicariously

In Mona Lisa Smile, a movie set in the 1950s USA, a newly graduated Art historian (Julia Roberts as Watson) enters an elite all-girls ultra-conservative college to start her teaching career. Wanting to make a difference yet intimidated by her smart- knowledgeable students and the strict staff, Watson centers the course around questions like what is art? Is it good...

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It is 2020, and I Am About to Lose Control

It is 2020, and I am about to lose control
A tale of dealing with uncertainty

We are almost at the end of January. This is the right time to start abandoning new year resolutions.

The thing is, I did not have any this year. No goals, no reflection about what happened last year or lessons learnt.

In 2020 it seems a bit ridiculous...

Everyday Is a New Day

Everyday Is a New Day

May 12, 2020

Emotional reinvention in the age of Coronavirus May is upon us. April, if not the cruelest, was indeed a lost […]

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The Space Around Closed Doors

The Space Around Closed Doors

April 28, 2020

Embracing Uncertainty “As You’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own […]

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As It Is.

As It Is.

April 14, 2020

It’s sort of a funny thing as I write this piece about acceptance that I am having a hard time […]

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The Beauty of Being Human

The Beauty of Being Human

April 5, 2020

A few months ago a friend of mine told me that her five year old had turned around and asked […]

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In the Midst of It All, Spring

In the Midst of It All, Spring

March 24, 2020

When I was younger (teen-hood, from 12 to 18), I lived in Greenville, NC. When we moved there, there wasn’t […]

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How to Use the COVID-19 Quarantine to Improve Your Life

How to Use the COVID-19 Quarantine to Improve Your Life

March 18, 2020

A basic guide to personal planning I am one of the lucky ones. As soon as Boris Johnson announced last […]

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Emotional Venting

Emotional Venting

March 17, 2020

A Cycle of Negativity Hard to Break These past months have been a revelation about the way I tend to […]

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Let’s Talk About Love, Baby

Let’s Talk About Love, Baby

February 25, 2020

Reflections after Valentine’s day. February is a terrible time of the year. There is absolutely nothing happening. Not a holiday […]

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Relationships!

Relationships!

February 18, 2020

Oh relationships… love ’em, hate ’em, however you want to approach them, they are going to be a regular part […]

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Loving Art-Making in Times of Resistance

Loving Art-Making in Times of Resistance

February 11, 2020

Growing Wings In the past months, I have seen a renewed confidence in my abilities involving creative energy. That I […]

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