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Josie Coco
3 min read
Maturing our gifts
There's never been a time that I have felt so certain that all that pain and anguish, the stretching and growing of growing and ageing had a
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Weaving a connection to the past
The afternoon will be a divine few hours rummaging through antique stores, vintage wares and second-hand outlets just for fun...
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Josie Coco
5 min read
Four-legged therapists
My little heart couldn't bear the thought of everyone not receiving a gift.
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Josie Coco
4 min read
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
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
The gift of nothing
All that hard work ethic wires your nervous system to hype. Always on, always up, always on the go.
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Josie Coco
4 min read
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 ...
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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 ...
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Perpetuating helplessness
Some of the symptoms might be worrying a lot, or ruminating on the worst case scenario
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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...
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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...
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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...
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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
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Josie Coco
3 min read
Rethinking family
We hold it together at work and relax into our meltdowns at home.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
The gift of solitude
Make time in your day and in your week for moments of solitude. Plan it, schedule it, prioritise it.
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Josie Coco
3 min read
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.
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Josie Coco
4 min read
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...
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