Passive Aggressive Trap In the Passive Aggressive Trap we are feeling angry, but we have been taught not to express our anger; to express anger puts us at risk of being rejected or criticised. To protect our self-imposed need for acceptance we manifest our repressed emotions through passive aggressive behaviours such …
When you are feeling overwhelmed it can often be a case of having unclear values, or spending time on things that are really not important to you; what I term “Shoulds” It can be such a relief when you eliminate the shoulds and get really clear on your own core …
PRESENT MOMENTS May 2014 Thoughts from Susie Ascott on living your Perfect Life www.presentperfect.com.au Present Perfect @ Facebook susie_coach@bigpond.com To be removed from the mailing list for this very infrequent newsletter, just drop me an email In This Issue What’s been Happening? …
This photo from Old Moss Woman’s Secret Garden is of young tomato seedlings growing safely in broken eggshells. She writes “My thoughts are to plant the egg shell with the tomato, cracking the bottom and pulling the shell up the stem a bit to irritate the slugs. I regularly distribute …
How would it be if you had spent all your life under water, and woke one morning to find that you had lungs that needed to breathe air, and limbs instead of a tail? I’ve been watching the tadpoles in my pond over the last few weeks as their little …
The other day I was reading an article on the Harvard Business Review blog site http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/sitting_is_the_smoking_of_our_generation.html The article talks about the health benefits of holding “walking meetings” rather than sitting around a table or in a coffee shop. It quotes some pretty astounding statistics, including “…a doctor is quoted as saying …
I have just completed a “9 day Karma Cleanse.” As one of the components of this exercise I was asked to monitor and eliminate “All expression of dissatisfaction.” I had thought that I don’t whine and complain much. And I don’t, much, but what I did notice was a strange …
I have realised that since the frogs moved in and had tadpoles in the pond I have less of a problem with mozzies. Yay!! Secretly, I am a little scared of the frogs. As my friend wrote to me “Unpredictable jumpy things are scary. I am amazed you are scared …
I have been out in the garden since 10:30; it is now 6:00pm. What a Fun Day! I got up at 5:00 and walked the dogs, went to collect drinking water and deliver some avocado saplings which had sprouted in the worm farm. Then I took my shears down to …