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Holding family in strange times…
How has your family life changed? I'm battling with being far from family, Karen is struggling to balance home-schooling and work-life. Marta is, in her own words, 'completely overwhelmed'. John is feeling resentful about being forced into a home-care role, whilst Sam...
Cup of Calm #11 – Hope
This morning we talked around the topic of hope. At the moment, something we all need. With hope, there is possibility. Hope can provide us with help. We shared the things that we hope for this week. Some of the things that were mentioned were peace,...
Mentoring with Bootstrap
She Leads Change supports and develops changemakers to amplify and accelerate the positive social impact they are making in the world. Our 300+ alumni are keen and willing to give back by supporting other changemakers. In March 2020 we launched a mentoring programme...
Cup of Calm #10 – Letting Go
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” – Buddha What can you let go at this time? What doesn’t serve us? How can we use the time we have now as a gift; not only...
Cup of Calm #8 Connecting with Nature
"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” - Anton Chekhov How can you connect with nature today? Will it be through taking a short walk or a run? Walking in a direction that...
Cup of Calm #7 – Kindness to self
Bring to mind a time when you thought good thoughts about yourself. Where you had an internal 'well done' or 'that's great' or even 'I'm brilliant'. Move into that feeling and amplify it. Turn up the volume on this good feedback and let it drown out all the 'must's'...
Cup of Calm #6 – Taking agency
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." Viktor Frankl In today’s Cup of Calm, we spoke about taking agency this week. That - despite all the...
Cup of Calm #5 – Weather
"You are the sky - everything else is just the weather" Pema Chodron. What is your internal weather today? Please read, again, the quote above. No matter our weather - sunny, windy or given to sudden showers - we are a constant in the background. We are the sky....
Cup of Calm #4 – Eating Frogs
“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the BIGGEST one first!” Mark Twain The frog, of course, is a metaphor for the things that you are finding challenging to complete or...
Holding Family – Young and Old
“Your attitude determines if something is an ordeal or an adventure…” Intention gives you agency in uncertain times.
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