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The Business Of Creation
It took me a while to get to this realisation, but I finally ended up embracing the fact that everything in the world is co-creation. Everything that happens in life, yours or mine, is exactly at the convergence between forces unravelling outside of us, and how we choose to show up to meet reality. We are…
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How To Deal With Criticism: Discard Praise
For most of us, criticism stings and burns. I couldn’t count how many times I reacted negatively, sometimes aggressively, sometimes with embarassment and shame, to honest feedback from someone close to me… I do so less and less, although I still occasionally fall back into my old ways of being. I even remember, months ago,…
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What Death Taught Me About Life
There are two undeniable facts about life: it will end for all of us, and we don’t know when it’s going to happen. We know this, yet we conveniently and consistently forget it. Most of us dread to consider the question and implications of death, and we immerse ourselves in various spiritual or material pursuits; whatever will help…
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Un-employed vs. Self-employed
Not very long ago, one of my clients published a great article in which she touches upon a distinction that I’ve thought about multiple times before, but never quite articulated in language. This distinction is the following: un-employed vs. self-employed. I have never been ‘un-employed’, although I have not been ’employed’ for the last 18…
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Why You (And I) Don’t ‘Deserve’ Anything
Language is powerful. Language creates new worlds. Language leads ideas and people. AND language destroys lives and leads to despair. I touched upon the impact of language in the past. Here, I want to explore a danger that is flooding our society. I wish to share my perspective around a pernicious lie that harms many of us…
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Nobody Needs A Coach
In 2009 Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, said something in an interview that remained famous among personal development networks: “Everyone needs a coach”. In May 2013, Bill Gates opened his TED Talk with the same 4 words: “Everyone needs a coach”. If giants of the tech industry – the prophets of our time –…
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My Dark Secret Around Self-Worth
For years, I was the helpless victim of a fear: the fear of not being enough. From my teenage years all the way to not very long ago, I was afraid of not being good enough, not being qualified enough, not being knowledgeable enough, not being witty enough, not being competent enough… This fuelled my…
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Our Superconscious Mind
This article is about you, it is about me, it is about all of us. When I started exploring hypnosis nearly 3 years ago, I became familiar with the terms “unconscious” and “subconscious” mind. These were used to depict the same elusive concept: some kind of deeper level in our psychology. The traditionally labelled unconscious mind…
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The Illusion of New Year Resolutions
I used to enjoy the idea of New Year Resolutions and for many years, like most people, I would set new year resolutions every 1st of January. I was seduced by this illusion, created by our calendar, that we can have a fresh start. I thought symbolically that a time reference, which is totally made…
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