Gretha

My thoughts on life

Why start again?

by | 20 February 2026 | Change, Choice | 0 Comments

We are five days into the new year. Maybe you already feel tired. Maybe you already forgot about your new year’s resolutions. Or maybe your mind is already spinning a story as to why you should give up trying to change. Who cares anyway? What difference will it make...
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The main themes leaders explored in coaching during 2025

by | 3 December 2025 | Leadership | 0 Comments

In reflecting on the main themes that emerged during my coaching conversations with leaders during 2025, I realised it all boiled down to “self-leadership”. This is not a term that specifically came up in the conversations per se as I’m not really one who likes to put...
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Seed of Silence

by | 20 October 2025 | Meditation, Retreat, Silence | 0 Comments

Nature teaches us that seeds only sprout when it is time. When the conditions are right. Some lay dormant for many years before it starts to germinate. Some only sprout after a fire.

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What is the ripple effect of the contact that you are making?

by | 26 February 2025 | Choice, Connect | 0 Comments

All contact has a ripple effect. No matter how insignificant it may seem on the surface. Whether it is a slight touch of hands, eye contact, a conversation or an ant crawling over your skin. Our interactions do impact others and the environment. This humbling lesson...
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Do you really want to change?

by | 4 December 2024 | Change | 0 Comments

This may seem like an odd question. Yet, I often hear these words spoken or read about leaders promising change, but the change is not always visible. We live in a culture where talking has become cheap and real change a scarcity. Declarations flow out of our mouths...
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The year of now

by | 3 February 2023 | Beginnings, Procrastination | 0 Comments

My commitment for the year is to be open to create in the now by staying in contact with what emerges in the moment. This asks of me to be and do in the now. To allow the doing to flow from my being so that my body can be a conduit in service of love and life. On a...
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Weaving with the Wild Woman

by | 8 August 2022 | Nature | 0 Comments

To weave with the Wild Woman you have to reclaim your wild nature. You must remember yourself back to your wild soul.  Your true home. The place where you return to your deepest knowing. Where you stand equally and free with all beings under the law of nature. It is...
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The power of the mind, body and soul connection

by | 5 August 2022 | Body, Change, Death | 0 Comments

I highly recommend the book Cured by Dr Jeff Rediger to anyone interested in mastering their mind and improving their health. Grounded in sciences it offers practical ways to understand the depth and mystery of the mind-body connection. Based on his research on...
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War, purpose, the protea and sugarbird

by | 3 March 2022 | Personal Development, Purpose | 0 Comments

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...
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What is love?

by | 14 February 2022 | Love | 0 Comments

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...
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What is touch?

What is touch?

by | 25 Apr 2020 | ,

What is touch? What are the various ways that I can experience touch? These are the questions I’m reflecting on in this period of social distancing and being in lock-down on my own. What I’m missing the most is being able to touch another human body and being touched...

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Love is space

Love is space

by | 24 Mar 2020 |

At the end of 2016 I wrote a blog to focus on the space. In the current context of social distancing I was reminded again of the importance of space. That space in itself is a gift. Even if it feels like distancing or disconnecting from the people we love. The...

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You don’t need eyes to see

You don’t need eyes to see

by | 25 Feb 2020 |

Have you ever experienced life with closed eyes?I recently undergone surgery on my right eye which meant that I had to keep the eye closed with an eye patch for 48-hours. This resulted in two-days of experiencing life with minimal vision as my left eye only has 20%...

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Create space for life to surprise you in 2020

Create space for life to surprise you in 2020

by | 14 Jan 2020 |

The past few months I learned that the real work is not about trying to control life or creating a “perfect” plan or clear vision for your future. The real work is about apprenticing yourself to create spaces for life to surprise you. Whatever shape or form the space...

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Set yourself free

Set yourself free

by | 12 Sep 2019 | ,

Do you have an ideal picture of your life, partner, job, children or even how you want your body to look like? It is exactly these ideal images that can create suffering if it blinds other ways of looking and experiencing the world for us.  I recently learned the...

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