Welcome to our February Newsletter. This month, I am asking myself, my friends and my clients: how do we celebrate our achievements in a healthy, balanced way? How much time do we spend sitting with positive feedback? How much space do we dedicate to asking for feedback in the first place? I work in a feedback-informed way in my counselling and coaching practice, yet in my private life, I still often notice moving fast away from positive feedback or even dismissing it with insignificant excuses.
Envy, one of the seven deadly sins, brings with it a sense of sadness, shame and resentment. It’s a deeply uncomfortable emotion to feel and can lead to destructive behaviours aimed at ruining someone else’s perceived good fortune and luck.
But if you can view envy as providing you with information, then it can be a motivating force that helps you achieve your goals. Before this can happen, you need to understand the roots of envy, how it manifests in your life, and how to use it for personal growth rather than fuel for personal failure.
Good morning. I hope your weekend is soft and restful. As promised, I have backdated the January posts (here and here) for you and only posted the summary of each post on Substack. In this post, I am writing about the Slavic celebrations of midwinter with the Festival of Veles, quiet preparation for spring, enjoying reflection, the slow pace of those colder days and the practice of noticing the world around us. I will also speak about intentionally weeding out internalised patriarchy and resting from this work.
It’s been a while since I posted on Substack – over a month. My last post felt like a natural end to one natural cycle of this newsletter, so I paused for a while to think carefully about the future of this space. In a way, last November marked the end of a book project I decided to write openly about here on Substack. A book, which hopefully, when put together “on paper,” will help inspire people to reconnect with Nature and digital technologies more organically.