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Josie Coco
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Entraining the absent heart
In a Western world that is characterised by schizophrenic and narcissistic leadership traits it's clear that betrayal trauma is not uncommon
Josie Coco
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Living in the reassuring rituals
The everyday rituals that make life bearable are often rushed and harried and their intrinsic value to the texture of our life overlooked.
Josie Coco
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The gift of nothing
All that hard work ethic wires your nervous system to hype. Always on, always up, always on the go.
Josie Coco
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Television robs you of your connections
Nowadays I know it's not a good idea to phone people in the evening. There was a time when that was when I would make those long and ...
Josie Coco
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Life's gentle lessons
Days of angst, of the hard lessons learned, of sorting through and figuring out life I'm pretty much done with. Life's lessons are ...
Josie Coco
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Your life, your truth
"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth (Thich Nhat Hanh)". Could there be truer words than these.
Josie Coco
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Perpetuating helplessness
Some of the symptoms might be worrying a lot, or ruminating on the worst case scenario
Josie Coco
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When the cracks appear
This is how we psychotherapists practice the Japanese art of Kintsugi with our clients. We know that when the cracks are explored, mended...
Josie Coco
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Living our best life at home
To fix, fiddle, rearrange and correct dreadful wrongs that get in the way of living my best life at home.
Josie Coco
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Nurturing your creative impulse
Hobbies, as it happens, don't demand perfection. That's the godsend that kept me motivated to try my hand at something new and real and...
Josie Coco
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Tolerating solitary pleasures
To write a list of just a few, it took me 3 weeks of recall, of searching the recesses of my mind for simple solitary pleasures.
Josie Coco
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Allow your passions to re-emerge
It wasn't until one of my parents tried to dissuade me that I began to experience the effects of social pressure to conform to something...
Josie Coco
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Solitude connects us to our humanity
When we understand that consciousness is forever evolving and expanding we get a sense that what is here today is the result of our thinking
Josie Coco
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Rethinking family
We hold it together at work and relax into our meltdowns at home.
Josie Coco
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The gift of solitude
Make time in your day and in your week for moments of solitude. Plan it, schedule it, prioritise it.
Josie Coco
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Are you really living, or are you simply surviving?
It's only now that I realise that the deep void in me was where life itself was missing.
Josie Coco
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The relieving breath of solitude
I had learned to be extremely independent and self-sufficient. Independence was a value that the society that I grew up in held in high...
Josie Coco
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Life is in the journey
What is they say about the journey and the destination?
Josie Coco
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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.
Josie Coco
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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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