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Why do Feelings Matter in your Planning Process?
Do you create an endless to-do lists that focuses purely on getting stuff done? Does it look something like: wake up, smash my morning...
Feb 19
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Closing out the Year
Reflective questions to close out your year.
Dec 3, 2024
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What is Aromatherapy?
A quick insight into what is aromatherapy.
Aug 22, 2024
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What is the Mind-Body Connection?
It's no secret that when we have stuff going on mentally and emotionally, it can also affect us physically. Â When we're stressed,...
Apr 17, 2024
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How Can Crystals Enhance your Reiki Session?
As you’ll know by now, that I am a HUGE fan of reiki – both giving and receiving it. Another big love of mine is crystals. They’re...
Nov 24, 2023
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Are Energy Blocks Stopping You From Living a Balanced Life?
A lot of people rely on coffee, chocolate or energy drinks to get them through the day, but have you ever wondered what else powers us? ...
Sep 14, 2023
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What do you value?
Now there’s a question to get you thinking. I have a Deadly Ponies handbag which I love and place a high value on, but I also value my...
Jul 5, 2023
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Bringing the Balance
Struggling to find balance in your day?
Here's a few tips that may help.
Apr 5, 2023
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Meditation
Welcome to my first blog of 2023. You would think being February, my first blog would be all about the smoochy love stuff. Instead, I...
Feb 10, 2023
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Do We Have to be Positive all the Time?
For the last couple of years gratitude and being grateful has become a big business. I have filled up many a gratitude journal with...
Oct 13, 2022
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How Do You Deal With A Confidence Wobble?
Believe it or not, confidence is something we all have. Why is it though, that some people seem to have loads of it, while others...
Aug 5, 2022
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Stress!
Hello, hello and welcome to my first blog of 2022. Puppies & Kittens - How do you feel when you read those words? I don’t know about...
Mar 3, 2022
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Learning New Stuff
This month it's all about learning new stuff, fixed mindsets and making up words
Oct 12, 2021
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We Each Have Our Own Song to Sing
So lockdown happened again. We’d been here before, so I knew what to do, and pretty much did what I did, last time around. In between...
Sep 1, 2021
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Our Subconscious Mind
So when I sit down to write my blog, I’d usually be sitting at my home desk, fighting the cat of the keyboard and watching the pīwakawaka...
Aug 5, 2021
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My Tribe
We humans are social creatures. We operate at our best when we feel we belong. Back in our cave dwelling days we lived in tribes. It...
Jul 5, 2021
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The F Word..... Fear
A few years ago my husband and I went ziplining. It looked like so much fun, flying through the air with the greatest of ease. We got...
Jun 3, 2021
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Jumping into Your Arena
I will be forever grateful to my younger sister for recommending I read Brené Brown. My copy of Daring Greatly is dog-eared and bent out...
May 3, 2021
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About Me
Hello there! I'm Carmen van Straalen, and despite spending over two decades in Auckland and a stint in London, I now call Te Awamutu, in...
Mar 15, 2021
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Coaching Process
What is coaching all about? So to be perfectly honest with you before training to be a coach, I thought having a coach was probably like...
Mar 15, 2021
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