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Permission to Feel SadPermission to Create Something Ugly. I waited a very long time to give myself this permission. I was waiting until I could create perfect, first time, straight away. I didn’t know that was impossible. I needed to practice, I needed to write without pausing to edit, I needed to get it wrong before I could get it right. I needed to go through the ugly duckling stage with my creativity. We all have permission to make ugly on the way to beauty. Don’t wait any longer.Permission to Believe I’m Doing Enough.Permission to Ignore What Does Not Serve Me. There’s a lot grabbing our attention. Including some self-sabotaging thoughts. You don’t have to listen to everything. You can give your attention to what helps you function well and stay on track. You have permission. I know those self-sabotaging thoughts really well. They tell me I don’t need to go for a walk or oh look get some of that chocolate or no one needs your input. You’re not here for the chocolate or the silence, you have permission to listen to what serves you and ignore the rest.Permission to Let Go of Shame.Permission to Go for A Walk.Archives
Category Archives: Life Story
Project Blackbird Snack Bar
I love projects, I have about sixteen on the go at the moment. Yes they are exhausting and yes it is a little sad when I consider that I will never finish them but they were so exciting in the … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, choices, little things, nature, photography
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Community Spirit
There’s a bigger prize than normality waiting for us on the far side of this… Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, behaviour, little things, no travel, story
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
(This is clematis and it is going to look beautiful soon… possibly) New experiences continue here and we’re like children (nice children, not cranky children…) as we discover different ways to be in the world together. Denis has returned to … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, gratitude, Life Story, Make and Do, Normal Thinking, Travel
Tagged acceptance, all is well, baby steps, gardening, little things, nature, no travel, travel
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The Journey
Today is the day we were booked to travel on the ferry from Rosslare to France ❤️ then onto Spain ❤️ on our journey to Portugal ❤️. Right about now I would be writing my first post from the car … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Life Story, Travel
Tagged all is well, behaviour, gardening, Ireland, little things, nature, patterns, travel
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What if life was just about being?
I often think about the messages life brings us… not necessarily the hard messages, the illnesses or the problems. But the small warm and gentle encouraging messages. Messages that in a normal day, we can miss. Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, France, gentleness, life lessons, photography, Portugal, Spain, travel, writing
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Bit stormy around here…..
(Red Leaves) Lots of family stuff going on here at the moment. Lots of transitions. Lots of new lessons. Lots of getting used to new situations which seem like old situations… but are not really, exactly the same… possibly. None … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, outdoors, photography, rain, story
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Fearlessness in Baby Steps
(French window) Ok….. so, I’m supposed to be practicing (from the dictionary: the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method as opposed to theories about such application or use) my fearlessness this week. I was figuring that might include … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, behaviour, choices, courage, fearlessness, follow your dream, little things, perfect as you are, photography, shame, wishes
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I’m bursting to share this thing…..
(Lavender) AAAAAh I was taking to someone over the weekend and they asked me what I was up to and I mentioned my Kickstart you Creativity course was starting in November. And as I mumbled and stuttered through some kind … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, awareness, baby steps, behaviour, calm, crafts, fear, follow your dream, KickstART your Creativity, patterns, photography, problems, productivity, sadness, story, wishes
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The Incredible Hulk IS Scary
(Nice calming water picture… Vouvant) Soooo there I was driving down to the supermarket. (By the way the Eat the Fridge thing is going great! – go to shop only once a week even if it seems there’s nothing left … Continue reading
What’s the story? Part 2
(Widen your focus… and see the big picture) The story of us is part of a big Map. The Map is the representation we have created in our mind of the real world outside our mind. It’s just a representation, … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, awareness, behaviour, big picture, map, nlp, photography, problems, story
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What’s your story?
(Mount Usher in Ashford, Co. Wicklow) The story of our lives is not the story of what happened… It’s the story of what we are. The story that starts “I am….” The story we think we became because of our … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, Ashford, awareness, behaviour, choices, gardens, healing, little things, Mount Usher, nature, perfect as you are, photography, problems, story
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The rainy season has arrived…. time for a story change!
(Lovely day in Cashel, Co. Tipperary on Saturday) It rained all day yesterday and it looks like it’s ready to do the same today. As always it’s funny how I get used to the weather and think it’ll never be … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, behaviour, Cashel, change, choices, follow your dream, goals, inspire, patterns, photography, Rock of Cashel, story, Tipperary, travel, wishes
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Today was a bit slow……
(Vegetables for the lasagna) As I write it’s nearly time for bed and I’m not so sure I’m going to have something to write about. Today I made a vegetarian lasagna. Today I went to the shop. Today I read … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Mammy!
(This way. This way.) It’s a bank holiday weekend in Ireland so we celebrated and had our lunch out and now we’re having coffee (for him) and green tea (for me) as well. My sister-in-law (Hi Helen!) thinks I spend … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloom, Cashel, Clonmel, coffee, green tea, little things, Mum, photography, story
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We’re Back in Ireland
(We didn’t take think it was worth the risk) We’re back on Irish soil again and for a few days it’s been very hot and sunny. Today is rainy but I have high hopes for tomorrow. I also have high … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour, calm, choices, decisions, habit, just do it, patterns, photography, thinking, wishes, writing
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Birds and Toddlers do it.
(A Robin) The birds are singing outside the window again as I write and I continue to be amazed at how much their singing affects me. For the better. I’m cheered just listening to them do their thing. They have … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, awareness, baby steps, being present, birds, choices, impact, now, photography, singing, story
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Hello blog, whatcha got today?
(Brooklodge Hotel near Aughrim, Co. Wicklow) Every day to write this blog, I sit down facing a window with a view to the sky. I never know what I’m going to write about. I never know if anything will turn … Continue reading
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Tagged brooklodge hotel, fear, inspire, just do it, little things, now, photography, wishes
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St. Patrick’s Mother’s Day.
(The Rock of Cashel – St Patrick definitely may have visited here (before the scaffolding and stone buildings)) Memories of my long weekend: Saturday… sitting in the lounge of Brooklodge Hotel looking out the window, listening to wedding guests all … Continue reading
He Stole my Laptop
(The gift) I was in a cafe in Dublin today. I ordered my tea (giving coffee a wide berth for a while) and noticed the cashier wasn’t giving me her full attention. Her eyes had drifted from my face … Continue reading
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A belief is only an opinion we think is true…
(3fe Abbey Street Dublin) Still here at 3fe, it’s very busy but they haven’t asked me to leave…yet! So yesterday, I was talking about tying ourselves to a belief. I have another belief to share. When I was eighteen and … Continue reading
Ok we’re home now….
(Charlottenburg Palace) Right, let’s get a few things straight. I will want you to remind me of these if I mention another holiday. So pay close attention: 1. Irish-type weather suits me, even though I love sunshine…. it’s not my … Continue reading
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Tagged baby steps, Berlin, choices, coffee, holiday, impact, photography, wishes
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Taxi Tour Guide
(Lunch…. looking like a green moustached little man?) We had a very interesting conversation with our taxi driver on the way to the airport. He’d lived in Berlin for sixteen years and loved it. As a teenager he’d been taken on … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, choices, courage, Germany, photography, story, taxi
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You are Here
(Where are we?) In the cathedral building on the Rock of Cashel, there’s a map of all the buildings on the site. This map is on a stone plinth in the centre of the cathedral. Somewhere on that map there’s a label … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, map, map is not the territory, now, story, you are here
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Learning to Swim
(Ellen, who showed me the Living with Beauty swim) Our nice visitors are gone. We miss them. We do have a pair of shoes they accidentally left behind but it’s just not the same. So maybe it’s not “the clothes that make … Continue reading
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Tagged Dublin, goldfish, inspire, little things, pets, story
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Dublin Rocks
(Pasta (not shown) and salad for dinner) We went to Dublin today. We have very nice visitors staying with us for a few days. They are so nice that while I’m writing this they are cooking our dinner. Today with … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, Art Gallery, Dublin, Fred Hanna's, Grafton Street, James Joyce, Leopold Bloom, story, Trinity College, wishes
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My dream job
(One paw, two pause…) We have a George Foreman grill. It’s a thing you plug in and when it heats up you put in your rashers or burgers or some other thing you might want to grill. It was advertised … Continue reading
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Tagged dream life, problems, story, you're unique
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Awful Arabella
(Maybe it’s time to cut the grass) Ok, assignment well on the way to being finished… so I’ll take a break to tell you a story. When our children were little I used to love reading to them. I think … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, awareness, Awful Arabella, blue flower, children's story, forgiveable, healing, inspire, little things, loveable, perfect as you are, photography, story, yellow flower
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Stuff Happens
(Dogs create stuff) I have a deadline on Friday to finish an assignment. But I finished it today! Yippee! Then I read the instructions…… it was the first time I’d read them. They would have been very useful, because they were … Continue reading
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Tagged all is well, awareness, Breathe. pause, chocolate, little things, read the instructions, story, stuff happens, sugar
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Don’t sweat the meatballs!
(Damien and Nat are organising a Flamenco Festival in Dublin 23rd to 31st July http://www.dublinflamencofestival.com) The de-clutter is continuing slowly, and today (Sunday) we went to Ikea. Not entirely sensible, because we might have been tempted to buy more clutter. Fortunately … Continue reading
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