Most of us are never taught to identify our values – instead we jump on the merry-go-round of life and focus on setting ourselves up for the future. It’s time that we start to take steps that deepen our understanding of ourselves so that we can learn how to make our lives and our businesses work […]

One of the main reasons people tell me that they want to join a training program is because they are feeling like they’re stuck and that they’re lost. These feelings usually come down to not knowing what your values are, and not having defined them. So, what is a value? A value is something that has […]

It’s that crazy time of the year when every function, catch-up, coffee, lunch, dinner and drink seems to crawl out from under a rock and demand that you give it some attention. Almost everyone around me is already exhausted, and the added pressure of all those extra things at this time of the year can easily […]

On the Edge of Exhaustion When I look around myself, almost everyone I see is resigned to the fact that their life is a slog and that ‘that’s just the way it is’. They have all unquestioningly accepted that you have to be stressed and exhausted before you’re allowed to be successful. I watch as people […]

Everything you need to know about following other people I see so many people who are desolate because they’ve tried everything they can think of to get their life under control … and they feel like they’re always failing. They are constantly looking around themselves and seeing everyone else with what they desire: their lives under […]

How to Increase Your Mindfulness in Half the Time Mindfulness seems to have appeared out of nowhere as the salvation to all our problems. But what is mindfulness, and do we really need it? Thanks to a multi-million dollar industry that has grown around being ‘mindful’, like most people I was completely sold on the concept […]

Challenge Your Boundaries to Ease Your Mind It was an interesting moment when I realised that the last time I had made a conscious decision was the first time I had decided to crawl. Deciding to crawl was such a simple act … and yet it was an act that triggered the start of my social […]

I’m often asked by people what it was like to suffer a complete breakdown. This is not an easy question to answer. It was such an intense experience that there are still some parts of it that I don’t completely remember. The best way I know to describe what it was like for me to experience […]

Give a little less, breathe a little more There are times when it can feel like the weight of the world will crush you. The longer you carry the load, the heavier it becomes. The heavier the load becomes, the more stories you tell yourself about why you are carrying it. And before you can blink, […]

By Monisha Iswaran There is so much conflicting information out there nowadays about what we should and shouldn’t be eating in order to be healthy. Sometimes it would honestly be so much easier if someone would just tell us what to do! Here are a few easy-to-follow rules that will help you and your family feel […]

Are you hiding behind your labels? From the time we can crawl, we’re conditioned to live in a way that is deemed acceptable by everyone around us. For some of us, the decision to crawl was the last real decision that we made all on our own – with no input from anyone else. Nobody tells […]

How Do You Know If You’re Resilient Enough? We live in a time of connection, yet we are more disconnected from ourselves and others than ever before. We spend our days in a state of constant stress, rushing from thing to thing. We surround ourselves with ‘stuff’ that is insignificant and that matters little in the […]

Combatting the Stress of Being a Leader? Here’s Five Things Women Can Do Almost Immediately There’s a reason ‘it’s lonely at the top’ is one of the most commonly used phrases by people in leadership positions … and it’s never been more true than for women who take on leadership roles. The basic definition of a […]

First published on HuffPost 22/04/2017 Every day is made up of a string of choices – some of them large, some of them small. Some of them conscious but most of them unconscious. Almost all of them place little thought on the value that we place on our life. Most of the time we wander mechanically […]

First published as an article for www.mywellbeingmagazine.com on 18/04/2017 When I was growing up there were these fabulous books that allowed you to choose what happened next in the story you were reading. You chose from one of three or four options and it took you on a different path in the story. At each junction […]

First published as a guest blog post for www.melaneyryan.com on 11/04/2017 It’s time …. Take your place – Mahat Retreat – Chiang Mai 2017 Welcome to a world within a world …. a bubble in time where you can blink and find hours have passed at the same time as noticing that time has slowed down. […]

First published as a guest blog for www.naturalbeautyexpert.co on 20/03/2017 Simplicity is the key to less stress and avoiding life threatening events. I think I just blinked and missed it! Every year seems to fly by faster than the last. In fact, life now moves so quickly and is so jammed full of ‘stuff’ that it […]

First published as a guest blog for www.realheidi.com on 13/03/2017 Life can be exhausting. At a very young age, we transition almost overnight from a world of make believe, fantasy and imagination to one where we are conditioned to join the drive to success, where we take ourselves and our lives seriously and finally, where we […]

First published on www.lifegrid.com.au on 09/03/2017 There are days when it can feel like you’re being pulled from pillar to post. It’s a strange place to be when your life is flowing effortlessly and your work is connecting so strongly with everyone around you that more and more people want what you’re offering. It can seem […]

Article first published on www.huffingtonpost.com on 3/03/2017 Our lives are busier than ever – they’re so complex when simplicity will do. We’re programed from a young age to relentlessly, often ruthlessly pursue ‘more’. We push ourselves to the extreme to try and reach success. We’re totally unconscious to the fact that we’re slowly and painfully killing […]