Tag: speaking your truth
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Ready to share your voice?
Join our social media campaign#IUseMyVoiceTo For those of you who have followed me for a while you may know how passionate I am about women using their voices and sharing their voices. When myself and Estelle Keeber found out it was #useyourvoiceday on April 16th we came up with an idea. Read on to find out…
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Are you ready for your voice to be heard?
Writing comes more easily when we are inspired. Be that by an image, an experience, a piece of art or others writing. This statue is in my friends garden. I was planning to share the image on social media and as I sat down to share it these words came through She appeared when she…
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Why I love public speaking
I used to hate my voice. I would sit with my small blue cassette player, recording a radio show. I would pretend to be the DJ and record the top 20 on a Sunday evening, sharing my opinions of the songs. When I played it back, I hated listening to my strong Geordie accent, but…
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Words matter
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: Words matter to us. Those that are said, those that are not said. The precision of a phrase, the use of one word rather than another can make all the difference to how we feel about something or someone. Often they make even more difference to the…
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How to start channelling in 5 simple steps
Channelling comes from many places and in different ways. For me channelling is about removing that self part of me that questions whether what I am writing or drawing is good enough. Channelling is tapping into those unconscious parts of ourselves bringing them to light. It is about allowing our unconscious to create some writing,…
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Am I a Shaman?
Can I call myself a Shaman? This is something I have battled with for a while and played with. What is a Shaman? Can I call myself a Shaman if I haven’t been to the wilderness of Peru and sat with a shamanic practitioner for 3 years? Is the term being bastardized? I have seen…
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What are the benefits of self-publishing?
What are the benefits of self-publishing? Self-publishing has become more popular over recent years, but did you know that women have chosen to self-publish their books since the early 1900’s? Florence Scovel Shinn is one of my favourite authors. She couldn’t find a publishing house to publish her first book, so decided she would publish…
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What is spiritual bypassing?
It is only this year that I became aware of the term spiritual bypassing. “Spiritual bypassing is defined as using one’s spirituality to avoid facing unresolved issues either on a personal, interpersonal or systemic level. The term was made popular in the 1980’s by the late John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist who observed…
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A poem of gratitude
This was a channelled poem I wrote back in 2021 which I have just found and wanted to share “To all those souls choosing to follow the narrative. For without you all it would not be pushing us to forge new pathways and find new ways of being and living. We are truly grateful that…
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