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Roots and Wings - Easter 2013
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Dear all,
please forgive this short and yet colourful edition of Roots and Wings. I'd like to say it was seasonal, but here it is still very Narnia-like, before the big thaw! I'm going short largely because I'm typing with my left hand, after an accident on the slopes last weekend put my right arm out of action temporarily. I'm going colourful because, quite frankly, I need cheering up - and not just because I can't now open a bottle of wine on my own. I'm ready to see colour in the garden, to sit out in the garden and to be able to see further than the tramlines as I stare out of the window searching for inspiration! That's enough now Winter, thank you, and goodbye!
Now I do believe that we can go some way towards switching up our own moods so I have been finding reasons to be cheerful (check out Alive to Change on Facebook), and regularly checking out pictures of last year's spring flowers in an attempt to capture some of the energy from those gorgeous colours.
These transitions between seasons are always interesting in the extent to which they affect how we feel about life. The weather, like many things, is entirely out of our control, yet we allow it to affect how we feel, how we act. We talk about "when" and "is" and make our plans contingent on the weather. When did that start happening? I can remember many a summer holiday in Scotland having a three week whale of a time, and never once allowing the weather to get in the way of having fun now, and whatever the weather.
So my message for this issue is to open up to the possibility of enjoying a splendid Easter holiday weekend whether it rains, hails or snows. It's a bit like Christmas without the expense or stress, it's a family time with perhaps a dash of friends visiting, Easter Sunday in Church is always a joyous celebration. So put on your Easter bonnets, wear the brightest colours in your wardrobe, and have an eggsellent Easter!
Have Fun!
Kirstin
www.alivetochange.com
Want to read more about transitions? Check out my article here. And look out for my article on raising "Tweens" in the next BCT newsletter!
Please check out my new New Look Website
- including my new picture (still fighting lefthandedly to mend some of the broken photo links)! Credit for the photo goes to Veronica Kiefer
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Open Up this Spring  It was all going to be so different,I had it all planned out! This Roots and Wings was going to be inspired by the new season - the sun bursting through to inspire crocuses, daffodils and tulips to shake off this long winter and kick in the springtime zest for life. The theme of Opening Up has been dancing in my mind all March. So here I am, all dressed up and ready to write - staring into the grey snow filled abyss formally known as the garden. The last of the more courageous crocuses has been buried alive, and the daffs are firmly on strike. Like every good project manager, I have myself a plan B. Because it isn't just the flowers who open up, and we don't have to wait for the sun for us to blossom. Really we don't! Here are five ways we can all open up and bring our own kind of spring into our steps, sun or no sun! Go on, try one! - Open up to someone - how often do you really share what is going on for you? At my recent coffee morning, we ask ourselves the question "What is your wildest dream?" - immediately there was a shift in the connection between people and we switched from a light discussion (weather related, I suspect!) into something a little deeper and much more energising.
- Open up to doing things differently - I am discovering all that my left hand can do when it does have its more competent twin to compete with. It's a challenge to find new ways of doing things and I've had some spectacular fumbling fails - baked beans landing in my sling for example!
- Open up a space for you - we mums sometimes put ourselves low down the list of priorities. Why not find a little (or a large) space for yourself this long weekend?
- Open up - to what's out there, and who! Explore, investigate, question assumptions .. . is this the time to review your perspective on someone or something?
- Open up your mouth and let a Lindt Chocolate bunny in. Oh sorry, is that just me?
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I'm delighted to be supporting a fundraiser as a follow up to the One Billion Rising project. We are holding a dance workshop to raise money for local projects which help women affected by violence. It's Saturday 13th April 3-5pm, check out the Facebook page to get more information. Alive to Change is sponsoring the room hire for this event so that every rappen raised can support women who want to get their lives back together.
If you'd like to join us, or contribute in some way, please let me know!
I'd like to thank all those of you who have attended workshops recently, booked exploratory sessions, signed up to coaching, attended my coffee morning, commented or liked on Facebook, sent me some welcome feedback and read this newsletter - and forwarded to a friend!! I really appreciate this very active support for Alive to Change, this is what puts a mega SPRING in my step!!!
Kirstin
PS - my new newsletter, Tips from the Big Top, is for mums who juggle work and home commitments, next issue out next week. You can subscribe here - Tips from the Big Top
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