How our experience is created: All our experience is created actively in our minds, using the same neural networks we use to create dreams when we are asleep; understanding this is the key to your peace of mind.
How our minds create stories: The mind is a great story-teller, telling stories designed to keep you safe. But sometimes it gets the wrong end of the stick and tells you things which only serve to make things worse.
The mask of your ego: We all create a mask - identity, ego, self - call it what you will, and behind that is who you truly are, the source of your innate resilience & well-being.
How your innate resilience is like the Blue Sky, always there behind the clouds: As you connect with your innate well-being (your mental wealth), you will be less afraid of the clouds of your day-to-day experience.
The Wave is the Ocean: We are all part of something bigger, just as the wave is part of the ocean, and this "ocean" gives you immense healing power.
Plus bonus chapter: Separate Realities. Understanding that we all inhabit separate, different realities gives us the power to understand each other, to love better and to heal our relationships.
Each chapter concludes with a question for reflection as a journaling prompt.
I am a trauma-informed, relationship & well-being coach. I work with people who have hit a road-block in their relationships, many of whom also struggle with stress, anxiety and depression.
I have 18 years experience of working with people with mental health problems including PTSD & C-PTSD. As a boarding school survivor, I have a particular interest in people who themselves attended boarding school.
Apart from the childhood trauma of boarding school, my experience includes a bereavement by suicide when I was 20. I am the survivor of three challenging relationships, in which I endured emotional abuse. I'm now in a healthy and very loving relationship with my current partner.
I am certified as a Relational Life Coach with the Relational Life Institute so that I can work with couples as well as one-to-one clients.
As a Certified Advanced CLARITY® Coach & Facilitator, I take a spiritual approach to coaching. I'm also a licensed One of Many™ women's coach, so I can bring a more female approach to coaching.
I have a BSc and an MPhil in Psychology, but in the last seven years I've realised that there is much to be gained by taking account of our spiritual nature - or what many of us call 'true nature.' This is the source of the creativity & compassion which enables us to heal from the inside-out.