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Trust in the natural order
Life is a progression of events, ideas, successes and failures. That's what gives it texture, interest, something to talk about.

Josie Coco
3 min read


Maturing our gifts
There's never been a time that I have felt so certain that all that pain and anguish, the stretching and growing of growing and ageing had a

Josie Coco
3 min read


Weaving a connection to the past
The afternoon will be a divine few hours rummaging through antique stores, vintage wares and second-hand outlets just for fun...

Josie Coco
3 min read


Four-legged therapists
My little heart couldn't bear the thought of everyone not receiving a gift.

Josie Coco
5 min read


Entraining the absent heart
In a Western world that is characterised by schizophrenic and narcissistic leadership traits it's clear that betrayal trauma is not uncommon

Josie Coco
4 min read


Living in the reassuring rituals
The everyday rituals that make life bearable are often rushed and harried and their intrinsic value to the texture of our life overlooked.

Josie Coco
3 min read


The gift of nothing
All that hard work ethic wires your nervous system to hype. Always on, always up, always on the go.

Josie Coco
3 min read


Television robs you of your connections
Nowadays I know it's not a good idea to phone people in the evening. There was a time when that was when I would make those long and ...

Josie Coco
4 min read


Life's gentle lessons
Days of angst, of the hard lessons learned, of sorting through and figuring out life I'm pretty much done with. Life's lessons are ...

Josie Coco
3 min read


Your life, your truth
"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth (Thich Nhat Hanh)". Could there be truer words than these.

Josie Coco
3 min read


Perpetuating helplessness
Some of the symptoms might be worrying a lot, or ruminating on the worst case scenario

Josie Coco
3 min read


When the cracks appear
This is how we psychotherapists practice the Japanese art of Kintsugi with our clients. We know that when the cracks are explored, mended...

Josie Coco
3 min read


Living our best life at home
To fix, fiddle, rearrange and correct dreadful wrongs that get in the way of living my best life at home.

Josie Coco
3 min read


Nurturing your creative impulse
Hobbies, as it happens, don't demand perfection. That's the godsend that kept me motivated to try my hand at something new and real and...

Josie Coco
3 min read


Tolerating solitary pleasures
To write a list of just a few, it took me 3 weeks of recall, of searching the recesses of my mind for simple solitary pleasures.

Josie Coco
3 min read


Allow your passions to re-emerge
It wasn't until one of my parents tried to dissuade me that I began to experience the effects of social pressure to conform to something...

Josie Coco
3 min read


Solitude connects us to our humanity
When we understand that consciousness is forever evolving and expanding we get a sense that what is here today is the result of our thinking

Josie Coco
3 min read


Rethinking family
We hold it together at work and relax into our meltdowns at home.

Josie Coco
3 min read


The gift of solitude
Make time in your day and in your week for moments of solitude. Plan it, schedule it, prioritise it.

Josie Coco
3 min read


Are you really living, or are you simply surviving?
It's only now that I realise that the deep void in me was where life itself was missing.

Josie Coco
3 min read
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