THE BLOG

By Tricia Scott.

Those of you who know me know how much I love the Christmas Holidays. Twinkly lights, mulled wine, carefully wrapped presents, and an abundance of friends and family across the threshold make my heart happy all across December (and a little bit of November as I always manage to...

By Nichola English.

You can feel a change in the air. The nights are drawing in, hot chocolate and mince pies are on the menu, and that festive feeling is upon us. It's the time of year again to party like you've never partied before.

Time to wave goodbye to evenings on the sofa with your...

By Ilana Jankowitz. 

Recently I returned from a wonderful week away in Italy. The holiday came about because my daughter wanted us to go and see her and meet her new boyfriend.

At the time when she contacted me to ask if we’d come, I was super busy. So, I asked her to talk with her dad...

By Hayley McDonnell.

World Kindness Day is celebrated annually on 13th November. On this day, all those involved strive to make the world a better place by promoting good deeds, celebrating positivity and pledging acts of kindness, either as individuals or as organisations.

Kindness is entirely...

By Janine Wirth.

Hi Janine,

I recently lost both my parents, so I'm experiencing a lot of mixed feelings with the holidays approaching. I feel really sad that this will be our first Christmas without them and want to know if I should rather skip our family traditions, as I'm afraid this might...

By Ambila Nath.

Dear Soul,

I know that you are just starting in this world, and I want to give you a guide that will help you steer some of the things you may face in your lifetime.

You will meet people and try and fix them in the hope that your life will become better. That is never the...

By Jenn Baron.

Hello CEO readers, I'm Jenn Baron, a certified life coach. 

Each quarter I'll bring you doable tips to clean up your thoughts, make minor tweaks to your perspective and take back real control of your life. Read, lower your stress and anxiety and be the real boss of your life...

By Hayley McDonnell.

If you have been sitting near water in the summer months, you have more in common with this Buddhist festival than you may have realised. Perhaps you've sat under a pagoda for shade and admired its aesthetic contribution to the outside space? This Eastern cultural event is...

By Janine Wirth.

Dear Janine,

After experiencing two awful relationships, I finally feel that I've found my soul mate. The only problem is that I live in constant fear that he's going to leave me. This anxiety makes me do things that I feel really embarrassed about, like secretly checking his...

By Ambila Nath

Our body sends us messages about its internal conditions all the time. Sometimes it offers subtle clues about what it needs in the form of a yawn, food cravings or a gut feeling. Other times, it signals distress through a skin rash, chest pain or unintentional weight loss.

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By Tricia Scott

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb

I often wondered what was wrong with me. Sometimes I felt like I lived on a different planet from the rest of humanity! I had a good job, a lovely home, great friends and...

By Ilana Jankowitz

It's time we create a global village network. 

I am originally from South Africa, the Rainbow nation, a colourful heritage full of wonderfully warm people. Nelson Mandela said, 'People are not people without other people'

I grew up as part of a community where we...

By Hayley McDonnell.

I’ve always tried to believe that when exchanging gifts that ‘the pleasure was in the giving and not the receiving’. Of course, this works best, if at all, with tangible gifts though I throw in a caveat here as the intended reaction is of gratitude and not...

By Nichola English.

You might think that society these days is a little obsessed with the word ‘age’. 

But what does it actually mean to age with style and grace, and why are we forever looking for the elixir of youthfulness? These, I suppose, are the million-dollar...

By Ambila Nath.

I remember the time in my life that I spent doing the things I needed to do in order to change my mindset so that I could attract abundance.

I had always been the person feeling that I had been left behind and that others were achieving what I wanted. My goals and dreams were...

By Ilana Jankowitz.

Beliefs can have a big impact on our self-esteem. It can be such a fragile thing and when it’s knocked it can have lasting effects.

The messages we tell ourselves as a continual running commentary throughout the day can bring with them huge feelings of overwhelm.

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