Thomasina Unsworth

You know the story of Sisyphus? The one where the poor man is doomed to push a boulder up a hill only to find the next day that it has rolled down. And he has to start all over again? Ok, that is a pretty dreadful fate. You could see his perpetual struggle as being...

'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel' (Maya Angelou) I have been thinking about this Not just because I think that it's true. But I was thinking about it in relation...

Yesterday I got really shouted at... I mean screamed at really. I hadn't done anything dangerous. But I had done something annoying. It meant the other driver had to reverse and then wait for a couple of minutes. If I was him I would have been a bit pissed off too As...

  Is it ever time to let go? You know we are told never to give up on the dream, right? We hear stories about wonderfully tenacious people who reap the rewards of their efforts years down the line. I happen to believe in pursuing your dreams and goals. Tenacity...

Tattoos used to be seen as a mark of rebellion Or something that only the wilder souls amongst us used to get done. Not so much now. Everyone seems to have one. (My daughters have got at least 14 between them) I got this written on my arm when my mum was slipping over...

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. (Derek Walcott) I love this! Recently quite a lot of things broke in my life Some I chose to smash Some I did not. I left a...

What's wrong with being ordinary? Why does that word carry negative implications? It isn't negative for me. In fact it is comforting. I am an ordinary human being. Growing up I had a dad who wrote books and won a big prize for doing it. From my earliest days I was...

And so she bought a lipstick..... This was one of my most joyful moments coaching. I was working with a woman who was doing something brave. It was something she had dreamed of for many many years. Something she had longed for but had squashed down in her whilst she...

I have long struggled with the view that all you have to do is manifest what you want and then you get it. Ask the Universe in the right way and you shall receive. There are a number of reasons why I have issues with this. For starters it feels hugely narcissistic;...