Blog & Insight

April 13, 2023
Earth Day: The Earth cried the day the mist set in

See below for the words of the poems and other links mentioned in episode #46 of the Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith podcast from which the title of the blog originates (Spotify/Apple). Before then here's some more general information about the podcast and the Landscaping Your Life process used in the podcasts to help […]

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March 9, 2023
Landscaping Your Life with Alison Smith Podcast

In series 3 of the Landscaping Your Life (LYL) with Alison Smith podcast I'll be using poems along side nature's landscapes as metaphor's for your life (see Apple/ Spotify / or you'll find it in all the usual places you listen to your podcast). Helping you to get back on track when you're stuck and […]

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September 5, 2022
Do something different everyday challenge

Doing something different every day for 21 or even 28 days is the quickest means I know of pushing us out of unhelpful patterns of thinking or behaving. I've done the challenge a number of times over the years and the insight never fails to amaze me - here's a post from the archives sharing […]

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August 27, 2022
Your prescription for wellbeing - sayings

One list you're invited to write in the Your prescription for wellbeing journal is of sayings or idioms that resonate with how you're feeling - sayings such as stuck between a rock and a hard place, can't see the wood for the trees or spinning too many plates. The reason I ask is the metaphor […]

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August 27, 2022
Your prescription for wellbeing - poems & stories

One list you're invited to write in your prescription for wellbeing journal is of things you do that help you when you're out of sorts. One of the things on my list would be poetry - either reading other's words or writing my own (usually whilst out in nature which would also be another item […]

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August 22, 2022
Your prescription for wellbeing - do less or more of these

The Your prescription for wellbeing journal is a journal to help you keep notes of what helps you to get back on track when you're out of sorts. You'll can buy it here and find out more about it here. Two very important lists you're asked to write on every prescription are: The premise is […]

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August 19, 2022
Your prescription for wellbeing journal

The Your prescription for wellbeing journal is available from Amazon * and helps you to remember what works and supports you when you're stuck, don't know what to do, are off track or out of sorts, and also reminds you about what hinders you too. The aim being to do more of one and less […]

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August 15, 2022
Take a Giant Leap Coaching Programme

Are you in the doldrums, feeling like you’ve lost your way, afraid that nothing is ever going to change and you’re going to be here for ever? Would you like to step into your full potential and feel that the world is your oyster, motivated and confident about your future? Or perhaps it's one of […]

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September 19, 2021
The mist will clear without any effort on your behalf

It can be too easy to focus on the confusion in the distance & ignore the clarity in the here & now. This is the insight my day started with yesterday whilst out personal training, continued during the virtual category management training in the morning, and was reinforced during the face to face retreat I […]

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September 18, 2021
A wand helping you discover your inner magic

“It was like being a little wand that helps human souls to find and embrace their inner magic” is how it felt. By way of introducing myself at a retreat this week I decided to share my poems - with each retreatee picking a poem intuitively from those spread before them on the meeting room […]

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