Elaine’s Blog

What on earth am I talking about? Why would you collect noes? Who wants to be told no? But collecting noes is freeing; it’s your golden ticket to peace of mind. Saying no is one of the first words that children pick up. When your toddler said no for the first time,...

I’m sure you’re aware of the old chestnut that communicationLife in 93% body language and only 7% the words you use. What a pile of poo. This myth came about in 1967 when Albert Mehrabian ran an experiment with 137 college undergraduates and determined that 7% of...

There’s a village in Sardinia called Seulo that has the highest number of centenarians in the world. And? Seulo is one of the world’s ‘blue zones’. Blue zones aren’t the coldest part of the house, they’re places in the world where people live and live and live and...

This week, I watched a documentary about the cult NXIVM. During this documentary, psychologists talked about the power of NLP to manipulate cult members, and this got me thinking about how different coaching modalities are used to manipulate and how far this...

Middle lane hogging is, according to a RAC survey, the most frustrating thing for motorway drivers. You may know that most of our motorways only have three lanes here in the UK, and the middle lane is for overtaking, not for cruising. I have, hands up, been known to...

In 1972 two seconds were added to time. The seconds were added because it was a leap year and time was out of sync with the earth’s rotation. Did those two seconds change the course of anyone’s life? Who knows? Someone might have stepped out into the road in front of...

When you think of acceptance, what comes to mind? Do you think that accepting what is means that nothing changes? Or do you think that accepting what is right now means everything can change? Acceptance might feel like a gift for some people, and for others, it might...

You’ve probably watched one or two vampire films; they’re just fiction, right? No, various types of vampires exist in human form, and whilst they don’t suck your blood, they can suck the life out of you. I became good friends with a slightly older woman in my first...

No, I’m not pretending to be a transformer. But my body, like yours, self-corrects. The human body is an amazing machine. It self-regulates, self-repairs, and self-corrects. I’ve had first-hand experience of this recently. I’ve had bits cut off, repaired, and sewn up,...