by Kerrie Bannister | Apr 12, 2018 | Inner Work
The importance of self-esteem has been heralded for a long time now; the essential ingredient for producing happy children who develop into well-adjusted, functioning adults. Sounds simple? Not exactly. Due to the world we live in, we can fall into a few pitfalls as...
by Kerrie Bannister | Jan 25, 2018 | Inner Work
The pressure to get your journey of emotional processing over and done with! Who of us hasn’t experienced being stuck in a car on a seemingly endless road trip with that dreaded question echoing off the windows, filling the car’s interior with a fog of tension,...
by Kerrie Bannister | Sep 22, 2017 | Inner Work
Curiosity noun 1.
a strong desire to know or learn something. I’m sure most of us are familiar with the little proverb “Curiosity killed the cat”. Interestingly, the phrase originated as “care killed the cat”, with ‘care’ meaning worry or sorrow. Over time ‘care’...
by Kerrie Bannister | Aug 4, 2017 | Inner Work
When did you first pick up the corset of comparison and try it on for size? Perhaps it was when you were little and the time came to leave the safe confines of home and enter the wider world of school? All of a sudden your world shifted shape from a place of innocent...
by Kerrie Bannister | Jun 2, 2017 | Inner Work
Silence – the beauty or the beast? Beautiful silence – an experience of peace, stillness, rest. The space in which to permit oneself the luxury to just be, to breathe. This silence does not demand of you, it simply allows. It creates room to stretch and...
by Kerrie Bannister | Nov 11, 2016 | Inner Work
Let’s eavesdrop on part of a touching conversation between a youngster and his old, wise mentor and consider what it is to be real. “What is REAL?” the Velveteen Rabbit asked the Skin Horse one day. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out...