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Lessons from a Meditation Coach

T-Rex - why the dinosaurs became extinct (Wise Speech 7)

"Leave me alone, Baldrick. If I wanted to talk to a vegetable, I would have bought one at the market." Blackadder’s snarky comment with...

Let's talk (Wise Speech 6)

A few years ago, I worked in a very unpleasant environment in a very prestigious organization. It’s the only organization where I’ve...

HEAR - Honesty, Empathy, Autonomy, Reflection (Wise Speech 5)

How's that working for you? It’s Dr Phil’s excellent question and very useful to review our behaviors that have become habitual. This...

Reflection (Wise Speech 4)

The Leader by Roger Mcgough I wanna be the leader I wanna be the leader Can I be the leader? Can I? I can? Promise? Promise? Yippee I'm...

Autonomy (Wise Speech 3)

“The doctor said if I kept eating this way, she’d amputate my toes”. My good friend Debbie* was deeply unhappy about her medical results...

Empathy (Wise Speech 2)

Lingzhao’s helping. One day, Layman Pang and his daughter, Lingzhao, were out selling baskets. Coming down off a bridge, the Layman...

Honesty (Wise Speech 1).

A couple of months ago, my neighbour, let’s call him Elijah, loudly played the comedian Tim Minchen’s song about the Pope. It’s a song...

The inner voice.

It was my partner’s birthday on Saturday. He selected a recipe for Persian love cake, a long-time fave. The shopping, spice prepping,...

Rings.

In March 1999, I married my fiancé; a man who would make a good husband and father. We’d been together for 6 years and Australia was the...