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Managing Your State To Live A More Joyful Life
You may have heard how travelling can enrich your life. Of course, when coming across new cultures, foods, traditions and by putting yourself in unfamiliar situations you learn...
Dealing With A Dinner From Hell
I recently attended a very difficult family dinner. In many ways, I am still trying to make sense of the whole experience. We all have to navigate challenging dynamics in our...
Are You Burnt Out Or Are You Actually Frozen?
Burnout has been the buzzword for the past few years. The definition of burnout is: a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated...
Is It Always Useful To ‘Let It Go’?
Some of us are better at dealing with uncertainty, some of us need a bit more control. This can manifest in the most mundane things like checking the menu of a restaurant online...
Take The Leap: How To Live Life On Your Terms
A couple of days ago I jumped out of a plane. It had never been a dream of mine, but I was excited to do it with friends when the opportunity was given. I wasn’t particularly...
Sometimes Bad Things Happen To Good People
Peanut isn’t well. She is recovering in many ways, but her injuries seem to be more permanent than we first expected. For those new to the blog, Peanut is my...
I Wanted To Scream: How Embodiment Helped My Marriage
I wanted to scream and lash out. I felt angry. I felt unheard and neglected. I wanted to run away and hide and shut down all at the same time. Across from me sat my...
How To Make Sense Of Trauma
Over the weekend I held a lunchtime workshop around a new approach to trauma. Many people signed up and I was looking forward to having a conversation around this interesting...
Our Obsession With Feeling Good Can Make Life Harder
We humans come up with brilliant ways of distracting ourselves from the emotions we don’t want to feel. Most of the time we don’t even know what it is that we are trying to...
Are You Attracted To Emotionally Unavailable Partners?
Relationships can take many forms; our love languages are very different and how we show affection can also differ. However, when one is attracted to, dating or even married to...
How To Be Strong And Successful
Modern society rewards us for being capable, efficient and productive. Have strong boundaries, be assertive, know what you want and go for it, have good structure and habits in...
How Centrd Life Has Changed Me For The Better
When you work for a business that teaches all things emotions, you’re bound to learn a bit more about your own. This has certainly been the case for me and my time with Centrd...
Being Human Is Difficult, But Beautiful
When people find out what I do for a living the same questions pop up: How can I set better boundaries? How can I find more balance in my life? How do I find a sense of belonging...
What It’s Like To Be Coached By Me
I have written and spoken about this on many occasions: I come from a cultural background where therapy and coaching are ridiculed. When going through some marital troubles a few...
How To Let Go Of Your False Narratives
During a Centrd Life workshop recently, one of the attendees asked me about upsetting others when setting healthy boundaries. She specifically referred to her fear of being...
Group Coaching Can Be the Community You Need to Heal
Healing can be uncomfortable and, at times, challenging. During 2019 and 2020, I experienced a few “dark nights of the soul” myself, and it wasn’t where I wanted to go. Coming...
There’s No Quick Fix to Your Problems.
When I was a child, I would drive my mother nuts, asking her how we know that other people see the world the way we see it. I was talking about specific things like colours and...
Is Enneagram Just Another Way to Tell You That You Need Fixing?
I recently took an Enneagram test on the recommendation of my coach. I filled out the long questionnaire and submitted my answers to a special leadership coach. We then arranged...
How to Ask For What You Want in Relationships
Do you find dating difficult? I do. I see a lot of my friends (at any age) struggle with something that I’m sure you’ll also recognise: the need to be seen as cool and laid...
How Can I Overcome Burnout?
When I had burnout a few years ago, I didn’t understand what was happening to me. I thought it was just stress that wasn’t going away. Then I realised, when I am stressed, things...
I’m Stuck on the “What Ifs”
Even if you're happy with your life choices, it's all too easy to get caught up in the "what if?" What if I stayed in that city? What if I had prioritised romance over...
How Can I Better Connect With Others?
When I decided to give up my London life and to start travelling at the beginning of last year, I didn’t know what to expect. I thought that just by being in wonderful locations...
How Can I Get Out Of A Rut?
What can I do for myself to get out of a rut? I have been having similar chats with friends of mine who crave some changes in their lives, but haven’t got a clear idea what...
How Can I Get Out of Hustle Culture?
I recently arrived back in London from my travels. Struggling with jet lag and managing my work commitments, I decided to rest a bit in the afternoon. I tried to settle down but...
He Blocked Me On WhatsApp: What Do I Do Now?
For the first time in my life, somebody blocked me on WhatsApp. I realised that I was blocked when his profile picture disappeared. The sensation was like being hit by a train....
How To Cope With Triggers
Recently, I have been attending yet another trauma course. One can never know enough about trauma. The course itself is fine. It’s quite challenging, but not challenging...
What is the Importance of Regret?
All of us have something we wish we would have done differently. Regret, just like any other emotion, is part of the experience of being human, but it is an emotion that is often...
How Can I Better Respond to Negative Feedback?
Recently, my team and I received negative feedback about one of our projects. In this blog, instead of talking about the content, circumstance, or validity of that feedback, I...
How To Live With Fear
I spent the past month with my family who was visiting me during my travels in Barbados. My nephew is currently 6 years old and a beautiful mirror to how humans could operate...
How to Be Emotionally Mature When Dating
My recent experience with a date made me think how we all create circumstances for ourselves to justify our worldviews, however skewed they might be. What is the reason behind...
How Can I Make Christmas with My Family Less Stressful?
Spending time with the family can be triggering and for many people, the Christmas holidays can be the worst part of the year. Don’t know if you recognise yourself in this, but...
Do I Need to Set New Year’s Resolutions?
December always makes me feel reflective, and I know I’m not alone in this. Something about this time of year always gives me the urge to reinvent myself. I’ve made a lot of...
Overcoming Emotional Patterns And How To Deal With Getting Triggered
During a recent trauma-informed course I attended, myself and the other attendees were constantly told: “Your trauma is not your fault, but it is your responsibility.” I know...
How Can I Handle My Emotions in a Crisis?
Last weekend after finishing a wonderful week-long retreat in the Caribbean, I got a call that my flat in London was broken into and burgled. The kind porter in my building sent...
I’m Single and It’s Fine.
I’m 28 and single. I don’t feel bad about this at all. Weddings make you often think about your own love life, and I’m not immune to this. Being the only bridesmaid without a...
How Can You Better Manage Stress?
My mother would say I have always been an anxious person. When I was 20 years old, a psychiatrist backed up that claim and I was formally diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety...
Can People Be Toxic?
Yesterday, one of the Centrd Life team members suggested that we make a reel about the idea of toxic people. She pointed out that there is a reel trend currently where people do...
How Can I Set Boundaries Better?
Have you ever found yourself agreeing to do things you didn’t really want to do? Going to a party when you just wanted to stay home? Agreeing to a favor you don’t really have the...
Can I Learn More About Myself From Traveling?
For the past five weeks, I have been away from the place I call home. It has been an incredible experience, but at times, I have found being on the road for this long physically...
How The Right Movement Practice Will Nourish Your Beautiful Soul
Movement is our natural birth right and one of the main pillars of physical, mental and emotional health but since the fitness industry has been promoting exercise, the idea of...
How Does Lack of Sleep Mess With Your Life?
We are all guilty of not sleeping enough at times, and we don’t think much of it. But research shows that lack of good quality sleep really impacts our health and the quality of...
Welcome to The School of Emotions
I always thought I knew how to feel my emotions, until I realised that I was only willing to feel certain emotions--those that I deemed positive or acceptable. Everything else, I...
How Can Embodiment and Difficult Emotions Help You Live a More Optimal Life?
Your body is constantly in communication with you, sending signals to propel you into action or inaction in the form of sensations and feelings. The basis of living a full life...
Are You Bracing Yourself Against Life?
I have been doing body check-ins for a long time now. My technique has changed from the time-consuming body scan to a quick, few seconds of noticing. I am still surprised to feel...
I Don’t Know Where My Home Is Anymore.
I've been thinking a lot about the concept of "home." Until I went to uni, I had the same answer about where home is: New York City, where I was born and raised. But in the ten...
The Problem With Self-Growth Culture
How can you flourish without trying to constantly fix yourself? On many occasions, I said to myself: I will not let this self-improvement culture make me feel like there’s always...
How Can I Get Out Of A Bad Mood?
I occasionally react to the same issue very differently. Some days, I find it easy to just overcome problems, and other days I find myself in the middle of an emotional shit...
What Tango Taught Me About Intimacy
“Intimacy isn’t achieved through words. It’s embodied.” - Mark Walsh Dancing cheek to cheek with someone you have never met. How difficult could it be? Very, and not just because...
Does Everyone Have More Friends Than Me?
I thought it was just me. I moved around a lot all my life, I had 4 completely different careers, left my home country in my 20s, never had kids and most of my friends are from...
Socialising is Hard Now.
I feel like I blinked and suddenly my life became busy again. For so long my list of things to juggle, on paper, was much smaller. No big social plans, no commute, no irritation...
I Was Worried My Friend Would Think I Got Fat.
Am I crazy? This week, I got drinks with a close friend I hadn't seen in three years. I was over-the-moon excited to see her. But also, I was nervous--not that it would be...
Are Filters Really That Bad?
There's been a lot of talk online lately about how toxic Instagram filters can be, especially for young people. When you can click a button and see what needs to change on your...
What is Spiritual Bypassing?
Coined by psychotherapist John Wellwood, spiritual bypassing is the “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues,...
What is the Mind-Body Connection?
Understanding the connection between mind and body is integral to reaching our full wellbeing potential. When we talk about mind-body connection, we refer to the link between our...
How is Breath Work Helpful?
Breathing is our first autonomous act when we come into this world. I attended an embodiment conference in 2020 where Leslie Kaminoff took the participants through a special...
How Can Talking To Your Inner Child Help You Heal?
“Children not loved for who they are do not learn how to love themselves. Their growth is an exercise in pleasing others, not in expanding through experience. As adults, they...
“Food Is Simply Fuel For Your Hungry Body, Right?”
Food, of course, is necessary to live. It provides us not only for the energy to do the things we love, but it's what keeps our heart beating, our oxygen flowing, our brain...
Why Am I Emotional Eating?
We're thrilled to be partnering with Ksoni, makers of sustainable, natural, and ethically-produced hair & skincare, for their Sustainable Self-Love Series. Over the next few...
American Pancakes and Sunny Side Up
I have so many sweet memories from when I ran my café. One involves a regular customer- who only became regular once we started serving American-style buttermilk pancakes. ...
What is Future Authoring?
I like to think about my future self, and then take action to help her out. My coping mechanism isn’t new or unique. Psychologist Benjamin Hardy in “Take Ownership of Your...
Why Embracing Painful Emotions is Essential to Self-Discovery
In order to live with a fully open heart we need to be open to feeling both negative and positive emotions. This is the first part of a series of blogs where I am going to...
Spanish Orange Cake: An Easy-to-Make Treat
“Have you got the crack cake today?” The first time one of our regular customers asked that question at the café, my team didn’t understand. Later, it became the new name for our...
What Are The Benefits of Mandala Yoga?
When I first started on my teaching journey, I found myself teaching the same style Vinyasa routines over and over again that you'd see in most London studios. Students seemed to...
We Can’t Go to Brunch: Just Another Thing to Feel Bad About
Now that you are an expert in baking banana bread, have tried your hands at keeping a sourdough starter alive, have set up or pivoted your business, or have given control over...
Anchors for 2021
I’m stepping into 2021 a little more confidently because of the personal anchors in my life. Loosely defined, “anchors” are behaviors that help stabilize us during the...
The Perfect Porridge
There is nothing nicer than a warm bowl of porridge on a cold winter morning. There is, of course, the debate like with any traditional dish on how to cook porridge “the...
The Power of Pause – An Embodiment Exercise
What makes pausing so powerful? What is the difference between pausing, and moving through our days without a moment for reflection? How can taking that time out transform the...
The Discomfort of Changes to the Body
Do you remember the discomfort of puberty? It wasn’t just getting my first bra, or starting menstruation, or the onset of acne that caused me the most discomfort. ...
The Beauty in the Breaks
A dear friend and I were texting about holiday gifts this year, and she shared that for 2020 she was giving wabi-sabi. I misread her text and thought she had typed wasabi and was...
Can You Let Go of Perfectionism?
I have been listening to Alain De Botton’s talk on love and relationships. He often mentions the British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicot, whose famous phrase was that parents don’t...
What Is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive eating can be a scary concept for many people. If you have always believed you must follow a diet, the idea of simply eating what you want can be quite...
What Do Diets Have to do With Capitalism?
Q. What do diets have to do with capitalism? A. Quite a lot... The diet industry continues to be one of capitalism’s most harmful outputs. Its toxicity is amplified by the...
The Complex Idea of Wellbeing
The idea of wellbeing presented by the wellness industry is somewhat limiting. Having a healthy body (or a body that is deemed healthy-looking by social standards) completely...
Lockdown Has Made Me Eat So Much
Do you feel like you are constantly eating? Are you checking the contents of the fridge every half an hour? Have your grocery bills doubled? Are you living on take-aways even if...
The Benefits of Seasonal Eating
With the changing of the seasons, it only feels natural to change how we eat as well. Colder temperatures mean our bodies start to crave heartier, warmer meals. This...
Self-Awareness is the Foundation for Emotional Intelligence
Working with Centrd Life means you will be going on the journey to better your emotional health. This month, we’ll be showcasing a series of blogs that discuss the steps on that...
The Conditions for Change are Created Instantly By Acceptance
The conditions for change are created instantly by acceptance. It is not until we accept things as they are that we can work towards how they can be. This applies to our own...
What is the Connection Between Love and Food?
The connection between food and love is undeniable. This starts when we are young, unable to feed ourselves. Our parents, our grandparents, all the adults who want us...
The Embodiment Conference 2020
Are you interested in learning more about wellness and connecting with your body? If so, we strongly recommend attending the upcoming Embodiment Conference, which runs from...
Why Practicing Body Neutrality is The Path to Self-Acceptance
The body positivity movement has rapidly gained steam in recent years. Originally created by women living in marginalized bodies, body positivity has been co-opted into...
Immune Shrooms Protein Balls
Recipe development for Wylde One Most protein balls on the market are heavily based on dates, as well as nuts. I personally find them overly sweet. By developing this...
What is Emotional Eating?
When we experience changes in our lives that cause us pain and anxiety, it's normal to turn to food for comfort. Whether it's a relationship issue, money troubles, a tough day at...
How to Eat for Immunity
You have probably all seen a post or two on social media regarding “immunity-boosting” foods you should be eating right now. Well, I am not sure you will like what I am going to...
What are the Benefits of Bone Broth?
During the strange times we are going through now many people will turn to comfort-eating as a quick stress release. Feeding your mind, soul and body with the right things (let...
(Jacket) Sweet Potato Three Ways
Jacket sweet potatoes Sweet potatoes are the perfect nutrient dense complex carbs. They are rich source of fibre and contain more than your 100% of the recommended...
Persian Eggs (A Perfect Brunch)
Inspired by La Dinette in Muswell Hill Serves 2 100g fresh or frozen spinach 1 bunch of dill 100g natural Greek yoghurt 4 eggs 4 slices of halloumi 4 teaspoons harissa Salt,...
The Perfect Vegan Chia Pudding
This is always a favourite on wellness retreats as a quick breakfast treat. Something light, but nutritious; perfect pick me up before a yoga class. The topping can be changed to...
How Can I Focus Better?
Staying focused can be challenging in today's information-overloaded world where we are surrounded by constant distraction. It might take some time, but...
Veganuary: A Simple Dessert Recipe
Turmeric - cinnamon poached pears with coconut yoghurt Poached pears make a great dinner party dessert and can be prepared in advance. The trick is not to overcook them. To get...
How Can You Improve Your Health and Wellbeing?
There are several different ways of thinking about health and wellbeing. Health can be defined as physical, mental and social wellbeing, not just as absence of disease. Wellbeing...
