Perimenopause – Why Am I Gasping for Air?

So I’ve been a bit resistant to write about my own health issues right now, but after another sleepless night I thought it was important and as I thought nobody else had this experience I went to a perimenopause group I am in online and posed my experiences to them. I was very surprised to see so many women telling me they gasp for air during the night too and…

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Is it Time to Drink in the Beauty of the New?

Listen above or tune in on Apple Podcasts or Podbean EPISODE 109 – PODCAST TRANSCRIPT From my book ‘When Everyone Shines INCLUDING You’ Hi there, welcome back to Kelly Martin Speaks. I’m your host Kelly Martin and this is episode 109.  Today I am going to delve a little deeper into opening to the new when perhaps our lives have been littered with darkness and tough times and to do…

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Awareness Is the Greatest Agent for Change

Eckhart Tolle said it very clearly that awareness is the greatest agent for change. If we are unaware of what is happening in our lives or how we are responding to world events we can’t change anything. Sometimes we can misinterpret awareness as prejudice or bias. We can even misinterpret awareness as being awake or knowing more than others (as I posted about last week in Why Awake People Don’t…

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Why Awake People Don’t Think They Are Better

There are none more asleep than those who think they are awake. ~ Michael Doherty So, I woke up this morning thinking about understanding the world, critical thinking and questioning reality. Something that has been bothering me a lot lately is judgement. Now, I know I can be a judgemental so-and-so. I accept this. I actually quite appreciate the ‘me’ that judges what works for me and what doesn’t. Sometimes I…

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When the World Is Upside Down and Inside Out

Listen above or tune in on Apple Podcasts or Podbean (If you want laughter and extras listen via the podcast on this episode!) EPISODE 107 – PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hi there, welcome back to Kelly Martin Speaks. I’m your host Kelly Martin and this is episode 107.  So right now it probably feels for many of you listening like the world has turned upside down and inside out. Nothing feels familiar,…

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Why a Powerful NO Is a Gift

If you were brought up in a culture where people wanted you to be a certain way, perhaps your family and your teachers at school encouraged this, but what you wanted to do was often frowned upon or discouraged. You may have built your identity around a false sense of self. This is when the common trait of people-pleasing begins. In your early years, if your confidence was not high,…

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Are Painful Judgements Holding You Back in Life?

Listen above or tune in on Apple Podcasts or Podbean EPISODE 106 – PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hi there, welcome back to Kelly Martin Speaks. I’m your host Kelly Martin and this is episode 106.  Today I’m going to talk about judgements and how they can hold us back in life. Judgement, I think we have all been guilty of this, in fact being human makes it impossible not to pass judgements.…

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Is Your Creativity Being Destroyed Because Of Fear?

For the longest time, in certain areas in my life, I have allowed my creativity to be destroyed by fear. What I mean by destroyed is that I have some past conditioning that is a bit tough-going to move through and because of this I have allowed my inner comparison junkie to have full reign over my creativity. Those areas where I wasn’t criticised or shamed in childhood stood the…

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How to Change a Suicidal Mind During the Pandemic Crisis

Listen above or tune in on Apple Podcasts or Podbean EPISODE 105 – PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hi there, welcome back to Kelly Martin Speaks. I’m your host Kelly Martin and this is episode 105.  Today I am answering a request from a follower of my Facebook page on a topic they are struggling with. So I am going to talk about suicidal thoughts and how this pandemic, lockdown measures, social distancing…

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