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25 Years Sober – and Still in Recovery!
It was 25 years ago this week when I woke up with another horrendous hangover. Here I was again, feeling disconnected, hollow, and...
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"I can’t believe I just said that…"
Sarah stared at her phone, heart pounding. She had just typed the words “I can’t take this on right now” in a text to her friend—then...
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Yep, it's pretty crazy out there right now!
As I’ve landed back home in the UK, it’s taking time to find my rhythm again. My soft, warm animal body is making many adjustments – to...
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Sharing vs Enjoying experience
Well, hello! How the angel are you? Gosh it’s been a while eh? Time feels like a moving slip wind through my hands lately. As I’m coming...
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Great teachers are everywhere!
Ask me who my most important teachers are, hands down – it’s Trees! They’re so darn audacious and unapologetic; a tree just wants to be a...
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It’s time for Soul-battical!
“Travel brings power and love back into your life” – Rumi I find myself here…..again, about to disrupt my life in a major way. I seem to...
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It's the simple things...
A simple walk to feel more connected and more alive. And lord knows, I (we) need to feel this!
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Wintering
All life needs, rest and incubation. All of life needs time below the surface - where it can breathe itself full and round, where it can...
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Listening is where the love begins
I’ll admit, I have been and can still be, a terrible listener! “My name’s Deborah, and I’m a terrible listener”. There, I’ve said it....
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Sometimes forgiveness is the only sane and loving choice
This last month has been profound! The deep dive into forgiveness over the weeks has been both deep and wide, liberating and humbling,...
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Deepening Practice....what does that even mean?
My first-time meditating was in the 90s. A dear friend told me it was similar to tripping, which appealed to my oh-so hedonistic...
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Finding your new rhythm
I spend most mornings outside on my deck. The early hours are precious to me – time to connect with life and myself, away from the things...
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Unplug your SELF
I usually take a retreat every year, but like for so many of us, it hadn’t happened for over 2 years and I could feel it in my bones....
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Everything Happens. Period.
Here's a radical statement......I DON'T buy into the idea that ‘everything happens for a reason’. I know, right?! It's almost blasphemy...
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Why Mindfulness Meditation NOW?
Meditation has been a refuge for me for a long time now, especially in the past few years with my mum dying, going through a divorce that...
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When Life Gives you Lemons
Last week in class we reflected on what we’ve learned about ourselves during this past year. While 2020 was a M.F'ing whopper in terms of...
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So Long 2020….. you’ve been one hell of a Teacher!
This year has been hard for all of us. I’m all for embracing uncertainty and impermanence, but jeeez, 2020 you really took the biscuit...
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Life is Tough my darling, but so are you
by Deborah Berryman (featured in Circus magazine September 2020) Let’s be real. Being human is hard right now. I’ve found these last few...
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We're all recovering from something
If I’ve learned anything over the past two decades of my own recovery – it is this. We are all recovering from something. Or many...
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THERE’s A LOT that’s Right!
It's easy to look around and see all of the things that are wrong in the world and even in ourselves. Biologically we’re wired to pay...
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