by Alison Braithwaite | Aug 15, 2018 | General
How was your experimenting? In my last post, I invited you to experiment with seeing criticism as an object to get curious about. I asked you to create distance between you and the object that was criticism and notice what opened up for you. I would love to hear what...
by Alison Braithwaite | Jul 31, 2018 | General
How do you react? I was having lunch with friends recently and one of them shared how she got defensive when she was criticized at work. She wondered if that was normal. My answer to her was that our brains are programmed to protect us. If we feel threatened by the...
by Alison Braithwaite | Jul 18, 2018 | General
Stories are powerful “There is no greater power on this earth than story.” ~ Libba Bray Stories are powerful things. Stories can engage us, celebrate us, set a direction, open our eyes to possibility, connect us to our personal power and can shift the culture of our...
by Alison Braithwaite | Jul 3, 2018 | General
You know the voice I was about to write something entirely different this morning and then I got a phone call. It was my husband. He was calling from the car and he had that voice, you likely know the one. The voice that signals to you something serious has just...
by Alison Braithwaite | Jun 20, 2018 | General
Self-observation Years ago I lived at a yoga centre for a few months. I received room, board and yoga lessons for cleaning bathrooms and changing sheets. One of the takeaways from that experience for me was a quote I heard there: “Self-observation without...
