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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Lambreys use their mouth, and rows of sharp, pointy teeth, to latch on to other fish, from which they suck tissue and fluids. Now, after feeling somewhat nauseated by the look of the delicacy, I wondered how a medieval chef would prepare such a fish. I have already started preparing for Christmas. Our primary focus
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If I was living in medieval times, I would simply hire a Herald and get him to do marketing work. Kings and large landowners hired heralds as messengers and ambassadors. What a week this has been. I realised I have been so on the go that my body has aches in places I did not
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If you thought that the Controns were bad, then they could only be described as pussy cats in comparison to the Ofardoes. What makes a good villain? All villains are heroes in their own eyes. That is because typically they are fighting for a cause they believe in. Take King Radolf. His mother was outspoken about the selling
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King Phillip IV was a bit short of cash… well, more than just a bit. He had inherited a sizable debt from his father’s war against Aragon. By November 1286, it was worth 8 tonnes of silver. His primary financiers were the Templars, and the debt was equivalent to 17% of government revenue. This week
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