Dear
Don't you just love this time of year? The trees aflame in golden leaves, conkers whistling through branches to make a satisfying wet plop on the ground and spiders silver-smithing necklaces strung with dew in the hedgerows. It's all quite magical even for us urbanites.
I love to sniff the air and breathe in the dank, warm earthiness of life in all its primal fluidity and change. Nature's Prozac if you like.
Not surprising it is the start of the collegiate year and a time when some of us may think about evening classes or starting a new fitness regime. Autumn can mark a landmark for a new beginning much more so than amid the tired and toxic resolutions trotted out more in hope than promise every New Year's Eve.
But for many this whole year has been one of change and adjustment. Perhaps you have lost a job or are in fear of losing one. Maybe work seems unstable and changes have been implemented that are hard to accept.
Circumstances alter, friends or partners aren't who we thought they were, uncertainty makes it hard to plan and trust the present.
Change can be terrifying.
So many clients know they are living half the lives they wished they could lead but fear of change keeps them rooted to that most mis-named of conditions known as the "comfort zone". This so called zone of peace is in fact a fetid mire of self-doubt, fear, reproach, self-sabotage and misery.
Yet the certainty of misery remains infinitely preferable to the agony of uncertainty.
Sitting on the fence in life can be painful
Dare to dream