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Mastering the Art of Hosting Transformational Retreats: Combining Personal Insight, Professional Skills, and Practical Abilities Sometimes, as retreat hosts and leaders, we often get lost in the details of everything we want to share with our guests. We know we...

How to Stay Strong When You Lose a Loved One My mission is to help people through life challenges and transitions, like divorces, empty nests, voluntary and involuntary career changes, redundancies, losing loved ones etc. My beautiful Barzoi, Arcady Nikolai,...

Take a Deep Breath. Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off and Start Again. Life has a way of throwing curveballs that can knock us off course, whether it's a career setback, a relationship ending, or a personal loss. In those...

Mother Hunger: Walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela can provide Answers to your Questions A couple of my retreat guests this year, who came to my little farm here in the southwest of France, primarily to walk the Camino...

Harness Your Unique Strengths to Build a Thriving Business In a world that often glorifies the extroverted hustle, it’s easy for introverts to feel overshadowed. Networking events, public speaking, and constant social interactions can seem like insurmountable hurdles. However, being...

Or As Neither of the above? As a business owner, it can be useful to know if you are an extrovert or an introvert, as each category has its own strengths and weaknesses. Extroverts and introverts approach the starting and...

Flipping Fears and Leaping Over Obstacles with a Growth Mindset - How Cultivating a Growth Mindset Can Propel Your Business Forward Running a business is no walk in the park, no matter how long you have been in the running....

Ever wonder why you feel more irritable and less productive despite working harder? On the point of collapsing from exhaustion, I realised something crucial: my relentless pursuit of success was costing me my health. I discovered that rest, quality as...

How Introverts Can Benefit from Adjusted Mindfulness Techniques If you are an introvert, you might find it difficult to master mindfulness. Mindfulness is a powerful practice that can offer significant benefits, but introverts may face unique difficulties when trying to...

. Every Tuesday evening, my Manifest Your Next Chapter retreat guests and I go to a local bistro to support the still-flagging local economy, post-Covid. Most of the options on the menu include duck, in some form or another, but...

Did you know that nearly half of successful people reconsider their career paths after a major life event? In an age of transformation, discover how personal stories of triumph over adversity are reshaping our understanding of true achievement. As you...

I want to start this email by thanking all those wonderful people who have written to me after my last email: I can’t tell you how heartwarming it was to receive your encouraging responses. The consensus was: "You do You."...

Relax, Rejuvenate, and Rediscover Yourself in the foothills of the Pyrenées Mountains A retreat should be a refuge: somewhere you can escape to, a place where you feel safe, seen and heard. I mentioned that I run old-fashioned retreats that...

How Private Retreats Can Revolutionize Your Well-being I have been hosting small group Camino de Santiago hiking retreats for more than a decade, here at my house in the southwest of France. Last week, I came across this post in...

A Moving Meditation for Stress Reduction and Inner Harmony In our modern world, filled with constant noise and distractions, a "new" trend has emerged called "silent walking," and it's all about escaping the chaos that surrounds us. I had to...