Gretha
My thoughts on life
War, purpose, the protea and sugarbird
What do you deeply care about? That was the question that I reflected on during a Power of Presence (hosted by Coaches Rising) study group that I’m currently involved in. The instruction was to speak from the space of presence-centred awareness as others listen from a...
What is love?
Is the question I’ve been living with and sitting within meditation from the beginning of this year. It is one of those questions that doesn’t have a specific answer as the question is one to live into. Like Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in Letters to a young poet “What...
Picking up the tennis racket
I did it for the first time in 24 years. I picked up the tennis racket and showed up to my fear. The memory that haunted me since I was 16. The day I realised that I was being observed and that the people in the stadium would notice if I made a mistake. From that...
Toxic positivity
My grandmother used to say, “too much of a good thing is not good”. I’m always reminded of these wise words of her when I talk about toxic positivity. Toxic positivity is when a person overemphasises a happy, positive and optimistic state by minimising or dismissing a...
Embody your purpose meaningfully
In this video we reflect on questions such as - What is my purpose? Where do I find meaning in life? What is embodiment? - from an Integral coaching perspective.
Five ways to flow with uncertainty
I would like to share with you five ways that supported me to flow with the waves of uncertainty in the midst of the darkness of the pandemic. When there were no more external factors to hold onto (all of the conditional ways such as job-security, partner, etc.) I was...