This week, I came across two sides of the pendulum swing with women. We just celebrated International Women’s Day. I started my day reading beautiful and inspiring messages from both men and women, celebrating the immense power and influence of women. Two of my book coaching clients are women who had the courage to change […]
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Image by M W from Pixabay How are you building your life? It is a question that I wish I had asked myself when I was younger. When my children were younger, I would often tell them the story of the three little pigs who built their houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. We think
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Image by DGSstudios Pixabay This year is about levelling up for me, but I know that as human beings, when we try to do that, our brains fight back. It’s this little thing called Cognitive Dissonance. It often stems from our belief systems about ourselves. Our brain has a security system that allows people, vehicles
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Image by Bogumir from Pixabay What constitutes home for you? After the upheaval of the last few years with many people being displaced, it made us wonder how we define home. Of course, those who are regular readers of my new letter will know that we have recently moved. I have finally settled in enough into our
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Image by Bogumir from Pixabay I’d wager that medieval kings and queens had some pretty colossal problems. If someone with a bigger army and better strategy than you wanted your land, they could come in and take over your kingdom. Have you ever woken up wrestling with a problem? Unless it is a scene for a story,
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I am a cat person; I admit it. Not the sort that would choose a cat over a human for companionship, but rather a woman who has a deep compassion and soul connection with these beautiful, intelligent creatures. I can not let the sadness over the last few weeks overtake me or else I would
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It is Easter weekend and a time when many people up their sugar intake and gorge on Easter eggs. For many years, I followed the same trend. Easter as we know it today is a blend of Easter from a Christian perspective as well as the festivals of Anglo-Saxon goddess of renewal Eostre. I owe
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Carrier/Messenger pigeons have served humanity throughout history. In the Chronicles of Nadine, a Christian Fantasy book series based in medieval times, spies play an important role in gaining intelligence for both King Radolf and Lady Christine. One of these spies used carrier pigeons as a method of communication. Messenger pigeons have served humanity throughout history.
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Life can be complicated and when it is, it is hard to focus on what is important. I sometimes get anxious when there is a lot of work to do and I am not sure what to focus on. It drives my husband a little nuts because I move from one topic to the next,
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I am thrilled that launch day is approaching for Book 4 in the Chronicles of Nadine. My characters and I had to learn some new skills together to get this book out. It was an enormous challenge trying to find an ancient and fantastical way of approaching something that I had only seen in modern
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