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Life Coach: life purpose and meaning coaching via Skype, as well as mindfulness training, now available. New 12-week psycho-education coaching programme available on Skype including mindfulness & discovering meaning. I am a personal meaning and mindfulness coach, eTutor and teacher, currently living in Cape Town, South Africa. My interests range from mindfulness meditation to discovering meaning and purpose, Viktor Frankl, and compassion.

Location:

South Africa

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Life Coach: life purpose and meaning coaching via Skype, as well as mindfulness training, now available. New 12-week psycho-education coaching programme available on Skype including mindfulness & discovering meaning. I am a personal meaning and mindfulness coach, eTutor and teacher, currently living in Cape Town, South Africa. My interests range from mindfulness meditation to discovering meaning and purpose, Viktor Frankl, and compassion.

Language:

English


Episodes
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Episode 11: Suffering can be an Inspiration

9/8/2022
Story Essence: By bearing suffering with dignity, you can be inspired to lift yourself out of your immediate surroundings and sufferings.

Duration:00:02:03

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Episode 10: Learning Self-Compassion

8/19/2022
Story Essence: By realising how hard I was on myself, how I felt 100% responsible for the failure of my marriage, how I engaged in negative self-talk, berating myself in my inner dialogue, I was able to give myself the essential gift of self-compassion. Being harsh and demanding of ourselves makes life even more difficult than it already is. Instead, by freeing ourselves of the full responsibility that we often carry all too easily, we can give ourselves this essential kindness, a compassion...

Duration:00:02:48

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Is Fear Holding You Back from Your Calling?

8/12/2022
Story Essence: If life is something we can lose, what have we achieved with our lives? Did we discover our purpose, our calling? Did we break through the fog of our own fears and fulfil our reason for coming onto this Earth?

Duration:00:02:32

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Turn Suffering into a Challenge

8/4/2022
Story Essence: Although we don’t have to suffer to learn, the only way to take advantage of suffering is to work out what it’s here to teach us. In the supreme difficulties of the concentration camps, Frankl rose to the challenge of his suffering by refusing to give up; he chose to grow, even through the suffering.

Duration:00:02:32

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Episode 7 - Finding Meaning from Suffering

7/16/2022
Story Essence: Helen Keller’s life teaches us that the process of finding meaning in suffering does not lie in feeling like a victim of your fate. Instead, it comes from overcoming your suffering by reaching out and helping others.

Duration:00:01:57

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Episode 6: The Power of Your Mind-Set

7/1/2022
Story Essence: It is extremely important to adjust your mind-set in circumstances that you can’t control. Instead of feeling that a situation is futile, you could turn it around and begin taking a different mind-set. Begin looking for how the situation can make you better. You’ll amaze yourself at how quickly you can transcend the futility purely through changing your mind-set.

Duration:00:02:35

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This Too Shall Pass

12/29/2017
Day 1 of a 30 Day Programme: No matter how hard a situation is, know that it will pass. Everything changes. Really knowing that something painful will pass, deep in the very pores of your being, embracing this and taking it to heart, can profoundly change the way that you experience difficult situations. Our ability to choose our response is our freedom. Despite limitations, how do we transcend the constraints imposed by our environments?

Duration:00:02:58