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This picture is so evocative for me. Glimpses of sun but atmospheric, not quite making out the paths but seeing where I want to get to - a derelict hermitage which is one of my sacred spaces. The picture reflects my journey at times, I have a sense of where I want to go but the way is not clear, it is one step at a time....
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This picture is so evocative for me. Glimpses of sun but atmospheric, not quite making out the paths but seeing where I want to get to – a derelict hermitage which is one of my sacred spaces.…Thank you this just sums up my reflection on the journey I am on at the moment x
Love this! Always reassuring when you can see where you want to go. Worse when you know the place/aim but can’t see it.
I have long loved the metaphor of fruitfulness and wrote about it in a thesis long ago. I find it more useful than success in exploring what it is that emerges from what I do. Fruitfulness also allows for the slow burn of much of what I do. Seeds planted now may bear fruit many years later. I came across this in my daily reading book recently:...
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Wondering Wednesdays – fruitfulness
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I have long loved the metaphor of fruitfulness and wrote about it in a thesis long ago. I find it more useful than success in exploring what it is that emerges from what I do. Fruitfulness also all…
I appreciate that we have to take responsibility for our own self care, but most of this is with the support of others. It might be friends, family, spiritual directors, mentors, peers, our team, networks etc. We invite them to support us, like the picture from Bodmin moor, this might be mutual. It might be natural self preservation, but these horses can not groom some spots for themselves....
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Musing Aloud: Self care is a mutual act
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I appreciate that we have to take responsibility for our own self care, but most of this is with the support of others. It might be friends, family, spiritual directors, mentors, peers, our team, n…Thank you for this, It’s really spoken to me. Just what i needed right now. X
Rice trail on road Look closely at the picture and you will see a trail of rice. I noticed it as I walked back up the hill to home after dropping my car off. When I was young you did trails like that to enable someone to track you and I also remember lurid stories about captured people leaving a trail so they could be found....
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Wondering Wednesdays – what would you do?
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Rice trail on road Look closely at the picture and you will see a trail of rice. I noticed it as I walked back up the hill to home after dropping my car off. When I was young you did trails like th…I would have A-Thought about it being a trail being left intrigued and wonder whether to follow it. My inner child expecting to find some sort of Hansel and Gretel scenario at the end of it or B-, some poor thing bust the rice bag and theres nothing left by the time they got home. Pretty sure I wouldn't have followed it off my route because I'm just too lazy,especially in this heat!
September 21 Newsletter from Sally - mailchi.mp/bd7885657d72/sept-21-newsletter-5361788
I love this imagery and the following one. A mother orchard is not necessarily old, but a collection of specimen trees for the purposes of preservation and propagation. It ensures a future of diversity and quality. When the trees were first planted at Cotehele, Cornwall around 2010, they had their branches tied down as they were being trained into a delayed open goblet shape....
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Musing Aloud: Spiritual Mother Orchard
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I love this imagery and the following one. A mother orchard is not necessarily old, but a collection of specimen trees for the purposes of preservation and propagation. It ensures a future of diver…
Slit window I looked out of this window at Montgomery Castle on Saturday. Apart from wondering if arrows had been shot from it, I noticed how little of the glorious view I could see. I wondered also when else I see a limited view, not realising the breadth of the scene. Looking at something through different lenses or getting a fresh perspective from someone else can help us understand better and avoid some of the dangers of limited vision. Who helps you with a fresh perspective? How do you get to see the bigger picture? #limitedvision #biggerpicture
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Slit window I looked out of this window at Montgomery Castle on Saturday. Apart from wondering if arrows had been shot from it, I noticed how little of the glorious view I could see. I wondered als…
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Previous participant said this of it: This is such a powerful subject and rare to hear it spoken about with such congruence.
Perspectives on Shame and Pastoral Supervision (autumn)
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One of my favourite pastimes is mooching around charity shops looking at books. My latest find is called You have breath for no more than 99 words. What would they be. This is my favourite entry by Scilla Elworthy: If I look back I see that fear lies to me. 'You'll fail,' it said to me when I started out on the path....
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Wondering Wednesdays – fear lies
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One of my favourite pastimes is mooching around charity shops looking at books. My latest find is called You have breath for no more than 99 words. What would they be. This is my favourite entry by…Fear really does lie. I’ve been fighting it this week as I have an interview tomorrow and keep reminding myself that fear is a liar.
Like many I have been inspired by the writings of the Catholic Priest Henri Nouwen. One of his well known books, Reaching Out, is where he explores 3 spiritual movements for our growth: 1. Loneliness to solitude, focuses on the spiritual life as it relates to the experience of our own selves. 2. Hostility to hospitality, deals with our spiritual life as a life for others....
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Honest Christianity: spiritual movement allowed
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Like many I have been inspired by the writings of the Catholic Priest Henri Nouwen. One of his well known books, Reaching Out, is where he explores 3 spiritual movements for our growth: 1. Loneline…
This is my favourite plant in our garden at the moment! Big, bold and beautiful... If you look carefully you can see the stick and the wires holding it up. Supported growth. I have been reading about Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) which includes the idea that we can grow and develop to the next level with support of someone alongside us....
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Friday photo – supported growth
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This is my favourite plant in our garden at the moment! Big, bold and beautiful… If you look carefully you can see the stick and the wires holding it up. Supported growth. I have been reading…
What do you need courage for?
Courage is my word for the year. I have a courage box and write notes to put in it when I do something courageous to encourage me when I lack it.
Many of us have had life-changing experiences over the pandemic and have an ocean to cross.
Losing sight of the shore was only possible for me with support and focus.
Recently I have been posting about getting support when we need it, courage sometimes needs someone to walk alongside us, to help us find the inner resources.
My specialism for support is spiritual health, helping you explore and enhance your relationship with you, others, sense of transcendence and environment.
Others offer their niche, if you need support in losing sight of the shore and travelling to a new world then why not reach out?
#spiritualhealth #courage
This is a season when some of us are eating the fruits of our sowing or planting. We are eating apples reaping from a long ago planting, no idea who first planted two apple trees in our garden but this is the 19th summer we have enjoyed the benefit of their actions. I have been reading a little bit of Maya Angelou this week, she talks about harvesting, the eventual consequence of sowing or planting....
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Wondering Wednesdays – what are we harvesting?
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This is a season when some of us are eating the fruits of our sowing or planting. We are eating apples reaping from a long ago planting, no idea who first planted two apple trees in our garden but …I wonder how many apple seeds have come from the one that was planted?
A new beginning?
Have you thought about how you can start off well?
There is often support to move on or around redundancy but it doesn't always continue to whatever is next.
If you are starting a new role, job or phase in life then think about my new programme Starting Well.
A workbook and 3 x 1-1s with me will help you review what you want to put in your basket to take with you, what needs to be binned, what you need to procure for this next stage and what priorities are.
sallynash.co.uk/courses-and-training/ Book here, cost £245
Wildlife corridors Most days Sally and I watch with equal levels of inspiration and frustration as the squirrels that live in some unmanaged land at the back of our alley, get to our bird feeders. They have had to work much harder to get to our garden over the last year as we have pruned many of our larger trees. Previously, it had been very easy for them as the trees in adjoining land, over lapped with the trees in the alley, and in turn, overlap with the trees in our garden....
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Musing Aloud: spiritual corridors
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Wildlife corridors Most days Sally and I watch with equal levels of inspiration and frustration as the squirrels that live in some unmanaged land at the back of our alley, get to our bird feeders. …Liked the twist at the end!!
What do I mean by unsettled?
My headline talks about working with unsettled midlife women.
What I mean by that is women whose life looks okay from the outside but who is asking questions like:
Who am I? Am I really fulfilling my potential?
Is it time now to focus on me and my development and self care?
What's my purpose in life?
What is really important to me?
What sort of legacy will I be leaving?
How can I make a bigger difference in the world?
These are spiritual questions and the solution I offer to exploring spiritual questions is my Spiritual Health Check Up.
Six modules all with a separate workbook and a 1-1 with me on zoom exploring the research based four elements of spiritual health:
Your relationship with
- you
- others
- transcendence
- environment and nature
along with core tools and concepts and an action plan to boost and continue to enhance your spiritual health.
Thjs is available until the end of September at a special launch cost of £450.
I have spent 35+ years working 1-1 and with groups broadly in the area of spiritual health and helping people fulfil their potential and flourish.
Sounds like where you are at?
DM me to explore or book directly via my website,
sallynash.co.uk/courses-and-training/
#spiritualhealth #unsettled
We encountered this sight in a walk along the beach last week There are some circumstances in which you think removing defences is a helpful step, this is not one of them. We all have defence mechanisms that operate at particular times, sometimes they are vital for our mental or spiritual health, at other times they may be unhelpful to our flourishing for various reasons....
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We encountered this sight in a walk along the beach last week There are some circumstances in which you think removing defences is a helpful step, this is not one of them. We all have defence mecha…
View from an arch in an old chapel We have been away for two weeks and there was so much time to nurture my inner life. Plenty of time to just be, to immerse myself in nature, to pause, to think, to reflect, to process, to read. Back working I need to be more mindful of how I nurture my inner life....
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Wondering Wednesdays – nourishing the inner life
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View from an arch in an old chapel We have been away for two weeks and there was so much time to nurture my inner life. Plenty of time to just be, to immerse myself in nature, to pause, to think, t…