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The past is over, the future is not yet here - TRA

The past is over, the future is not yet here - TRANSITION THROUGH LOCKDOWN
I was reminded of this today - it's ok to "hang out" in the transition zone between the trapeze bars allowing ourselves to dwell in the only place where change really happens.

Sometimes, I feel that my life is a series of trapeze swings.

I'm either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments, I'm hurdling across space between the trapeze bars.

Mostly, I spend my time hanging on for dear life to the trapeze bar of the moment. It carries me along a certain steady rate of swing and I have the feeling that I'm in control. I know most of the right questions and even some of the right answers. But once in a while, as I'm merrily, or not so merrily, swinging along, I look ahead of me into the distance, and what do I see?

I see another trapeze bar looking at me. It's empty. And I know, in that place in me that knows, that this new bar has my name on it.
It is my next step, my growth, my aliveness coming to get me.
In my heart of hearts I know that for me to grow, I must release my grip on the present well-known bar to move to the new one.

Each time it happens, I hope no, I pray that I won't have to grab the new one. But in my knowing place, I know that I must totally release my grasp on my old bar, and for some moments in time I must hurtle across space before

I can grab the new bar.

Each time I do this I am filled with terror.

It doesn't matter that in all my previous hurdles I have always made it.

Each time I am afraid I will miss, that I will be crushed on unseen rocks in the bottomless basin between the bars.

But I do it anyway. I must.
Perhaps this is the essence of what the mystics call faith.
No guarantees, no net, no insurance, but we do it anyway because hanging on to that old bar is no longer an option.
And so, for what seems to be an eternity but actually lasts a microsecond. I soar across the dark void called "the past is over, the future is not yet here." It's called a transition. I have come to believe that it is the only place that real change occurs.

CONT BELOW ⤵️

Rolling into July... We have a two day event on th

Rolling into July...
We have a two day event on the horizon.
Now, if the government can allow our venue to open in time its ON!

📣 Your Career & Life Whilst Managing Your Hormo

📣 Your Career & Life Whilst Managing Your Hormonal Health

All too often the doctors at the Newson Health Menopause & Wellbeing clinic hear stories from women regarding how their career & life has been affected due to their hormone health.
As women, we naturally transition through different stages in our hormone health. Importantly to note, due to the extensive work of Dr Louise Newson, founder of the Newson Health Menopause & Wellbeing clinic we can now access more information, realising that more women are challenged with hormonal health issues from peri-menopause to full-blown menopause.

The natural hormone transition often creates an imbalance that throws many women off track. Checking through the case-studies on the clinic website shows women experiencing anything from mild symptoms to feel really quite unwell.

The sad part of this, many women have been misdiagnosed, not diagnosed at all, dismissed from the GP surgery with no treatment, or a treatment that is not suitable.

For some women, this has lead them to give up thriving and successful careers and having a huge impact on their mental and financial health.

A few weeks a go I had the privilege of sitting down with Dr Zoe aka @manchestermenopausehive
Discussing womens hormone health during this moment in time. What we can do to care for ourselves along with curating helpful and directional resources. Newson Health Menopause and Wellbeing Clinic is completely changing the game when it comes to this subject matter.
If you head over to the blog [LINK IN THE BIO] you can listen in to our conversation with clear guidance and insight of what to look out for in your Hormonal health.

The great news is Dr Zoe now has a Newson Health Menopause and Wellbeing Clinic in Manchester. This content is SO GOOD, it prompted a couple of my team to head her way to seek invaluable support with their hormonal health.
You do not need to suffer, there is great help and advice via these great doctors.

OBSERVING | LISTENING | UNDERSTANDING | ACTING Ov

OBSERVING | LISTENING | UNDERSTANDING | ACTING

Over the last six months I've been observing women leaders on this platform and in the wider world.

What I have seen time and time again is women doing the work.

Looking at their own self-awareness, checking in with their self regulation, owning and building their social awareness, being motivated from an internal place to support change for something of the greater good.

Digging into empathy, knowing that we can't truly know what it's like to experience other people experiences.

Taking the lead on relationship management, strengething communities, doing the best we can then doing better when we know better - in the famous words of Maya Angelou.

There is a time and place for data, numbers and research. What I see time and time again is us women, taking what we know from the data and looking way past it.
Looking way bigger than any data can ever tell us.

I've seen us women looking deep into the souls of humans, trying to figure out the next steps from a human place not just based on data that can always be challenged and changed.

I've seen us women be humans, trying to know and do the right thing. Sometimes f&*king it up, but ready to get back in to do better and understand, listen and learn.

If the last 4 months has taught me anything these words from Barack Obama are more true than ever
"I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything ... living standards and outcomes.". Let's keep amplifying the voices that are truly committed to long term sustainable change.

Be observant of those who talk a good game and watch if they follow through.
And for those operating from their masculine, we see you and when you're ready to return to the feminine, to the most empowered place of communication - you will be welcomed in.

Keep listening, broadening your understanding.

Take action, invest in the voices and businesses that are about true change.

#BlackOutTuesday #theshowmustbepaused

#BlackOutTuesday
#theshowmustbepaused

Birthdays and grief Today my dad would have been

Birthdays and grief

Today my dad would have been 80.
He would have wanted to celebrate either of two ways - A grand day out in Blackpool, wonder along the sea front, sit down with ice cream and coffee watching the world go by. Followed by indulging his grandchildren on the pier slot machines, wrapping up the day with a bag of fish and chips.

Or a trip to the Mediterranean basking in the sunshine taking dips in the sea, grandchildren by his side.

It would always be with his grandchildren by his side.
Always with a G&T.

For his 70th I took him to London. The last time he went was when he applied for citizenship to the UK. He hadn't been since.

He LOVED London, he loved the art in the museums, he loved the bouji hotel by St Paul's, he loved the fancy restaurants, he especially loved eating his ice cream in the parlour at Fortnum and Mason.

I am desperately sad today that we didn't get to celebrate this milestone with him - mascara was not a good idea today!

But, there will be ice cream, fish and chips and a G&T.

Happy, happy birthday dad.

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