It’s possible to be too kind. The acid test is: Are you hurting yourself being kind? Are you being taken for granted? When you turn round are those people there for you? Are you the one everyone turns to, but the one never invited to parties and gatherings? If you realise that your kindness isContinueContinue reading “Too Kind? (Snippet)”
Category Archives: Mental health
Not Listening? (Snippet)
When people refuse to hear what you say and constantly challenge rather than discuss: Step 1: stop speaking Step 2: walk away There are none so deaf as those who can only hear their own thoughts and opinions. Hearing aids won’t help. Deb xx
Year End Letter
Quick Cosmic Ordering/Law of Attraction tip. Focusing on what you do want not what you don’t is the first rule of cosmic ordering. One way to do this is to write a letter on 31st December 2023, dated 31st December 2024, thanking the universe for all the wonderful things that have happened in 2024. Then youContinueContinue reading “Year End Letter”
Surprise!
Has this life surprised you in a good way? Have you had amazing things happen that mean that you can’t quite believe your good luck? Or has life surprised you in a not-so-good-way? You expected it to be easier being an adult? You thought you’d be in a better place by now? A better job, relationship, house. Driving a betterContinueContinue reading “Surprise!”
You Are NOT Your Bank Balance
One of the little pieces of blackmail I have always ‘loved’ is that if you don’t charge enough for your work you don’t value yourself and other people won’t believe in you. That, or charging weeds out the losers. To a certain extent that is true, because some people value money in the wrong way.ContinueContinue reading “You Are NOT Your Bank Balance”
There I Am
Loud and Proud For many years I wasn’t as up-front as this, I was basically in hiding in my own life. Anxiety is the great un-doer of personality. It takes everything you think you are and changes you into something you don’t recognise. People very quickly pick up on this, and only the best keepContinueContinue reading “There I Am”
Why?
Why?Why what?Why did you do something?Why are you feeling something?Why aren’t you changing something?Do you know the answers to these questions?If you don’t it matters and doesn’t matterIt doesn’t matter because it’s okay not to knowIt matters because you’re trying to changeWhat you don’t knowWhat that something isSomething you haven’t decided onBecause you’re not inContinueContinue reading “Why?”
Not You Me
You ask me for adviceBut I am not youI cannot be youI can only be meAs such my advice will be basedOn what I would doAnd that’s no use to youWe need to find out what you wantTogetherYou are not alone with thisBut you are the only youOnly you can be right for youAnd youContinueContinue reading “Not You Me”
My Alphabet of Hope
True Power
This is an old poster, so my website is – debhawken.com,but the DebDancingStar page is still available on Facebook. That was a really funny moment, the coordinator of the event asked some of the greatest thinkers of our time what love meant. They looked so flummoxed, but each came up with an answer of someContinueContinue reading “True Power”