When we are in a relationship there are three things that reinforce to us that someone is deeply in love with us. In NLP, this is called a deep love strategy. If you want to make sure that your partner continues feeling loved and connected with you, you need to find out what their deep love strategy is.
Duckfish suggested that we take a kayak out and paddle around South and Mid Molle Island today. Early this morning we hired a little yellow sea kayak from Salty Dog at Shute Harbour. We sort of had a vague idea that it was a couple of kilometers from Shute Harbour to South Molle Island but… Read More
New article up at HUBPAGES Suicide – Let’s Start a Conversation Why do you find suicide difficult to talk about? . Why am I writing on HUBPAGES instead of here? Because I can make a little bit of pocket-money from people reading my articles there. If you are interested in joining this site, I can… Read More
The authentic me deserves a chance to live, to cherish the sacred gift of life and to explore the limitless potential that the future holds. I have no right to smother her, strangle her, or asphyxiate the life out of her.
The official term for suicide is “intentional self harm”. I have been guilty of the very thing I have fiercely denounced.
When it comes to achieving a fit and healthy body that I feel comfortable in, I started at the point of absolute belief. This is like those who believe in a “one way only” religion. My thinking was dominated by “either/or” logic. I believed that the only way to lose weight and keep it off… Read More
Duckfish and I walked today. We found my rock. It suits him.
I was never a Girl Guide or a Brownie, probably because I was too busy going to ballet class and piano lessons, but I loved their system of badges. You could get a badge for sewing, or first aid, or helping old ladies across the street for all I know and it was sewn on… Read More
When your husband kills himself you’re not meant to talk about it. I’m not playing by those rules. Here is my story in a short seven minute documentary.
A practice is “any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of human activity are realised in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence […] with the result that human powers to achieve excellence are systematically extended.” – MacIntyre, After Virtue, 1981… Read More
In my life as a student we have to contribute to a private class-only blog about documentary films, including ones we have seen and our own documentary film proposals. As there is another girl in my class who is doing a treatment on suicide, she posted her thoughts about the way our memories are unreliable,… Read More
If you and I were going to go sailing out on the ocean, you’d say to me “Katie, where are we going?” And I would say, “Well, I don’t really know. Not only do I not have any idea where we are going, but I have disconnected the rudder and we are just going to… Read More
Any time you set a goal, that goal needs to be what NLP calls well-formed. ♦ The first condition is that the goal needs to be stated in positive terms. ♦ The goal needs to be initiated by you and maintained by you — is it something that begins with you, can be maintained by you and completed by you?… Read More
State vs Goal Sometimes people set goals that include a state — “when I accomplish x I will be happy”. The issue of happiness from an NLP point of view is that it is a state. Since it is a state, we can have it immediately. All you have to do is remember a time… Read More