by Lesley Lyle | December, 2019 | compassion
One starfish at a time Never before have we had to draw on our collective human strengths and resources more than now. The country is divided, we are all suffering from Brexit burnout, it seems as if community spirit is dwindling and I sense people feel angry and...
by Lesley Lyle | December, 2019 | Community
The recent UK election was not a straightforward process. Brexit played a huge role in how people voted and for some, it meant prioritising one set of values over another. Winners and losers UK elections work on the principle of first past the post and...
by Lesley Lyle | December, 2019 | Fizza Shah, Spirituality
What does Positive Psychology say about Spirituality What do human’s search for when they search for spirituality? Zinnbauer & Paragament (2005, Pg 611) have suggested that it is “a quest for existential meaning, to the transcendent human dimension” meaning that...
by Lesley Lyle | October, 2019 | Life, Monique Zahavi
I have always been curious about why, despite really tough circumstances, many people manage to take the lemons life throws at them and make them into lemonade. I have also always loved this saying. Apart from making me smile at the thought of adodging lemons being...
by Lesley Lyle | October, 2019 | courage, Kelly Seaward, Uncategorized
In the words of Brené Brown in her book Braving the Wilderness, she embraces the wilderness as ‘the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone’. These words of wisdom which Brown shares throughout this book came into my life at the exact time I found...
