🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🌳 Touch grass — How to feel more grounded this week. How much of our day is spent living in our heads? This week’s reflection explores the modern phrase 'touch grass' as a surprisingly profound reminder to step out of mental noise and return to what is real, grounded, and here in front of us. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”— Anne Lamott Dear Reader Touch Grass: Coming Back to What Is Real There is a...
10 days ago • 7 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter ✈️ Are you living on autopilot? A simple shift that changes everything We often think life will change when something external shifts. But more often, it’s our patterns that keep us in the same place. Explore how we quietly repeat the same reactions, choices and habits and how a small moment of awareness can open the door to something entirely new. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon Dear Reader Going round and...
17 days ago • 6 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🤯 If You’re Stuck in Your Head: A Different Way Through There are moments when the mind just won’t stop. It circles, speeds up, tries to solve everything at once. And the harder we push, the more stuck we seem to become. There is a different way to meet this. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” — Dr. Seuss Dear Reader Overthinking Feeds Itself Overthinking causes more overthinking. You may have noticed this already. We...
24 days ago • 8 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🚪 The doorway to healing most people walk past Most of us say we want to grow. We read the books, listen to the podcasts, attend the workshops. Yet when real inner change begins to ask something of us, we often hesitate. Why? Because genuine transformation asks us to meet the parts of ourselves we have spent years avoiding. Yet something remarkable happens when we do this. The very places we feared often become the doorway to healing, wholeness and a...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 📖 Hurt people hurt people… But there’s another ending Most of us know the feeling of reacting before we’ve had time to think. A sharp word, a sudden withdrawal, a defensive edge in our voice. In the moment it can feel justified, even necessary. Yet when we pause and look more closely, these reactions often have a deeper origin. Beneath many of our strongest reactions lies something more vulnerable. Hurt. Fear. A part of us trying to protect itself....
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🔭 Are you searching in the wrong place? We spend much of life searching for answers. But what if the search itself is pointing us in the wrong direction? “The reason you want to be better is the reason why you aren’t.” — Alan Watts Dear ReaderThere is an old story from Nasreddin about a person searching for their lost keys under a streetlamp at night. A passer-by stops to help and asks, “Where did you lose them?” “Over there,” the person replies, pointing...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🪞How do you want to look back on this life? Aging has a way of stripping life back to what really matters. Beneath the physical changes and losses, it quietly asks a deeper question: how do you want to meet the reality of your life, right to the end? “It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work. — Wendell Berry Dear ReaderAging as a Fact of Life Aging is a completely natural process that we all experience. It carries a...
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 🤚The moment you stop reacting, everything changes Most of life is shaped by forces we never chose. And yet, moment by moment, we are still responding, often without realising how much power sits quietly in that response. “The quality of attention we bring to life determines the quality of our lives.”— Sam Harris Dear ReaderThere is very little in our lives we can truly control. We are born into particular circumstances and grow within forces far larger...
2 months ago • 5 min read
🔭 The Present Perspective Newsletter 😤 Think. Pause. Breathe. Thinking, planning and problem-solving are our human super-powers, but left unchecked they can distract us from our real life. Explore what happens when we restore the balance and gently return to the intelligence of the present moment. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” — Annie Dillard Dear ReaderThe Brilliance of the Thinking Mind As humans, our thinking mind is extraordinarily powerful. We only need...
2 months ago • 9 min read