L E T T E R from Jac – The Opportunity Cost of Being Scared
As a creative in my early twenties, rejection was just part of the game. Trained as an Interior Architect, and […]
As a creative in my early twenties, rejection was just part of the game. Trained as an Interior Architect, and […]
‘I was having team with Master Han in his office when the mailman arrived with a letter from the master’s […]
Pema Chodron speaks of this with such clarity, ‘Life’s work is to wake you up, to let the things that […]
Let’s get really clear on what 2020 is going to be for you. What will you introduce, what will you […]
Have you ever received a present and thought, ‘weird, and certainly not what I want’ yet it’s gone onto be […]
I read a brilliant article in the FT Weekend by Lucia Van Der Post. She says that luxury is shifted […]
It can be a really emotional time at the moment, can’t it? Family situations, work coming to a crunch period […]
I felt this was timely, as it’s something that students ask me about SO OFTEN, how do we set boundaries […]
This quote in full by Ram Dass is, “When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, […]
When we meditate, we begin to understand and become aware of the layers of ideas and thoughts we have about […]
‘You have to go further. You have to demonstrate the answer. You have to embody the answer. You have to […]
Creativity, and any expression of it, involves a deep relationship with fear. Creativity is not just being an artist. It’s […]
Ram Dass here points out something students talk about so often with me, “We have built a whole ego structure about […]
‘Fudoshin’ is a Japanese term used in Zen frequently, which means an unshakeable will, utter determination, the mindset of a […]
Tomorrow marks the day that I go away for 11 days on a self-led silent meditation Retreat. We are going […]
We all wish there was a silver bullet, that will miraculously transform us. Preferably one without much time invested from […]
I am in awe of Nature. All things about it I love. I come at it from a lay-persons view […]
At The Broad Place, we advocate study and reading all the time. However, if the study is not taken into […]
An important question I ask myself when I am feeling very contracted is how can I bring more love to this. […]
With our upcoming move to London, Arran and I have been working with a lot of fear. That’s the thing […]
I absolutely adore this quote and have had it pinned above my desk for years. When I am stuck, feeling […]
My wonderful friend Jeff Kober included this in his daily newsletter last week and I loved it so much I […]
I am trying hard to help my daughter be empowered to make the choices that are right by her. To […]
I looked after our friends’ little boy called Sonny the other night, the whole night and morning while they went […]
What’s fascinating about consciousness is that it’s hard to describe, hard to quantify and yet everyone wants more of it. […]
Frequently people think ‘creativity = art’ and it’s time for us to broaden our horizons around this. Creativity is at […]
When we are learning anything, there are usually concepts involved. We want to be sure to understand them, to test them and to find our truth within them. When we become governed by the concept over the truth though, we are bound by it. Our learning will […]
And what does evening ‘having a need’ mean? We can all get caught up in the idea that our needs […]