🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter ⌚ The Waiting Game Many of us spend our lives waiting for the right moment, the right conditions, or the certainty that we are making the “right” choice. Yet beneath that waiting is often a quieter truth, a longing we already know. "You will freeze in place if you remain this way. You must not, dear. You have to move" — Rilke Dear ReaderOur minds powerfully create a reality that we then inhabit. This reality places ourselves at the centre, with our...
10 days ago • 9 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🍃 This too shall pass — freedom in change Change takes everything eventually. While we often treat this as a problem to solve or resist, it may be the very doorway to a deeper kind of freedom. Explore how meeting change and loss honestly can soften our grip and give us a fuller experience of life. “Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh “The most beautiful people we have known are...
17 days ago • 8 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 💗 Love within. The journey to wholeness. Sometimes love feels like something we search for outside ourselves, yet the deepest and most nourishing love is often already here, quietly alive within us. When we begin to notice how love naturally arises in our lives and relationships, we may also discover that the same qualities can awaken in how we relate to ourselves. “Embodying the acceptance of all parts allows us to rest in profound peace, at home both in...
24 days ago • 8 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 💗 Your inner peace leads to outer peace Most of us want a more peaceful world, yet feel overwhelmed by how much harm and division we see around us. What if lasting change doesn’t come from fixing others, but from understanding how unacknowledged hurt quietly shapes our reactions? When we tend to our own pain with honesty and care, something powerful begins to shift. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they...
about 2 months ago • 10 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 💗 Towards greater self-kindness and agency Sometimes the smallest choices can bring us back to ourselves. When we understand the deeper needs behind our habits, something softens and change feels possible again. There is a gentler path forward, and it’s closer than we think. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.” — Viktor Frankl Dear Reader Why is it that we often turn away from the very things...
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🫂 The Return of Spontaneity, Play and Creativity Somewhere along the way, many of us forget how alive we felt when we played, explored and created without hesitation. Yet that quiet spark never disappears. It waits patiently for the moment we are willing to feel it again. “The creative adult is the child who has survived.”— Ursula K. Le Guin Dear Reader One of the joys of being human is our capacity both to be creative and to enjoy the creativity of...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🫂 What is the most important relationship in your life? Every moment of our life is shaped by relationship, especially the one we have with ourselves. "You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself." — Albert Camus Dear Reader We are constantly in relationship. We’re in relationship with our past, our future, the present moment, ourselves, our family and friends, our hopes and...
2 months ago • 5 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🫂 Learning to go from overwhelm to OK When we return to ourselves through mindfulness and meditation, we rediscover a quiet OKness that was there all along. From this place, life feels less like something to fix and more like something we can meet with steadiness, clarity and ease. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers Dear Reader By far the most common human experience today is some variation of...
3 months ago • 6 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter ⚡Don't waste it! There is a quiet voice inside us that knows what we need and what really matters. We don’t have to earn it or search for it — only learn how to listen. “At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” — Lao Tzu Dear Reader Right here, right now, is the only real place your life exists. We can fantasise about the future or reminisce about the past, but these are illusions. There is no...
3 months ago • 4 min read