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Skipping Shavasana – Nobody Wants to Die

After having been gone from London for six months, returning has been in some ways unsettling. The moving forest of human trees with black trunks and placid faces, the continual sabotage of curiosity by averted gazes and the absolute unacceptability of physical contact in crowded […]

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The Softest One

“They should just drop a bomb on the country and blow them all the fuck up,” he said. I watched his face after he’d finished. His chin was stubbled. I hadn’t noticed before, but now the roughness and the hardness of it was all I […]

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‘American Sniper’ Shot me in the Heart and Gut

Last night we went to see the new Bradley Cooper film ‘American Sniper’. As we crunched our way across the quiet, icy parking lot towards the cinema I was mildly aware of an ambient discomfort with going to see a film depicting real-life, present day […]

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Talk is Cheap. Integrity Creates – Coaching Jude

I didn’t tell Jude this when I was coaching her, but she and I had something in common. Up until this coaching conversation, Jude and I had both been talking about writing a book for ages. We thought about doing it. We had said we would do […]

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Steve Hardison – The Window Cleaner

When Steve Hardison ( www.theultimatecoach.com ) first saw me in London this weekend, he hugged me and then grabbed me by the shoulders and stared into my eyes. If his energy didn’t feel so loving and authentic, I would have probably been weirded out. Instead […]

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How to Present Yourself Well

Do you want to present yourself well? Have you been considering how to present yourself well at your next job interview, sales meeting, first date, funding pitch or networking or social event? I won’t suggest that being concerned with how we present ourselves is all […]

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