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Josie Coco
3 min read
Life is in the journey
What is they say about the journey and the destination?
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Simplicity makes room for pleasure
Returning to work in service saved me. I made a commitment to only spend my time doing what I loved.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Simply abundant feasts
There is so much joy in the preparation of food. For me it's about retrieving it from its source.
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Josie Coco
2 min read
Thank you, I love you.
There is no shortage of this energy, source energy from which we are all created.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Allowing or striving?
Striving to me is about pushing against what is. I'm not into that any longer. Enough already.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Be your own guest
On waking from this nightmare, I realised that what I loved most about having guests, was inviting those with I could enjoy have good conver
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Celebrate together
I dream of long tables in warm summer evenings with good food, great wine, deep conversations and exquisite company.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Living prudently and abundantly
Planning your shopping is not only a time saver, but also keeps your supermarket spending under control.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
When the wolf is at the door
My business experience taught me that the flow of money shifts and changes people's perspectives on a daily basis.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Discovering life at the kitchen bench
When my heart and soul is engaged with my cooking, the meal is phenomenal. Why is that?
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Josie Coco
4 min read
Harmonising busyness in family life
We lose connection, we lose deep knowing, we lose the bond that hasn't formed, we lose respect and we lose our family.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Comforting memories
The smells wafting from the kitchen windows as I walked up the drive on my arrival home from school.
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Josie Coco
4 min read
Food for the soul
An outdoor pantry, one of us would be sent to fetch the ingredients for preparation of the next meal.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Cooking for comfort and joy
Somewhere along the way I realised that my greatest fear when my funds were low, was that I wouldn't have enough to eat.
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Josie Coco
4 min read
Anxiety free, living in harmony
The troubles of the world persist. The change and discontent will always be a feature of our days on this beautiful earth. It's unlikely...
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Josie Coco
4 min read
Independence or radical connections?
Heralded as our most important achievement, to be independent, to be self-sufficient, to be self-supporting.
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Josie Coco
4 min read
In pursuit of happiness
Other speak about the elements of happiness. It's not really happiness that we are seeking but fulfilment, or meaning, or challenges...
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Satisfying the hungers of the soul
We are in the throws of COVID and there are multiple reports of those who hunger to be released from their homes and families to return to..
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Staying with what is
Somewhere along the way I realised that I spent most of my life anxious about the passed that wasn't, and worried about the future that ...
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Josie Coco
3 min read
What are we compromising with all the striving?
Striving was a badge of honour, a message we receive in the hard work ethic and happily ingest. However do we ever really digest that...
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