Reports from the field, June 2019. When we think of the things we give ourselves permission to not know how to do sometimes the list looks like things like electrical work, tiling, or fixing our cars. We often get support for things that have to be done which we have no expertise or ability to do ourselves. And after the expert satisfactorily finishes the task, we don’t experience shame and judgement for not being able to do it ourselves. When it comes to emotional work and t

I was giving myself Permission to not take action on my dreams. And I'm kind of mad about it. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing. But once I started creating my work around Permission it became so clear to me how much I was deciding to wait, hope, wish, yearn. I could Olympic Medal in yearning. Why isn’t this a recognised discipline??? I was giving myself Permission to stay in that yearning spot. I was good at it! What’s your hurry? The problem was, that decision not to a

Greetings from my front edge of figuring out how to give myself permission to find myself worthy. Recently I've moved to Scotland (you can follow along with that adventure if you are interested on Instagram @the_gardeners_cottage_ ). It’s a bit remote, meaning you can’t run to the pharmacy and grab some bandaids. I’m pretty clutzy so this is something I think about as I’m doing repairs and gardening. Also, I’m expecting to have lots of guests and I thought I would do a very