Author: suziechick
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My 2019 Summer reading
The Summer holiday season is finally upon us (yeah!), and one of my favourite ways to recharge those all important human batteries is to get down to some serious reading. And so I’d like to share with you some of the books that will be tempting me this holiday. I hope it inspires. Happy holiday everyone!…
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To the rescue
“We don’t need another hero. We don’t need to know the way home.” Tina Turner Batman, Tarzan, James Bond, Wonder Woman the list goes on and on. Not only are these examples of hero archetypes but also fit the descriptions of a classic rescuer. And we can often find ourselves in a similar like role (less…
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Regrets revisited
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce “I don’t want you to do something you might regret”. We hear that a lot. Be it in movies, books, TV soaps or in real life. It got me thinking what’s so wrong with regrets? Aren’t they inevitable? Why is it always said “no regrets” (this phrase is…
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Time to grow up?
“If you act like an adult when you’re a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life” Walt Disney “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing” George Bernard Shaw We’re often told (by our parents and our society at large) that…
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The Games we Play
“Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.” Eric Berne “Why am I always the one picking up after you?” she moans… “Stop talking to me like a child!” he yells…. She responds, “Well stop acting like one!” Some of you may recognize the dialogue. It’s two fully grown adults and yet…
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Our need for a secure base
“Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base” John Bowlby British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. The other day, I looked out my window from my cosy little room in Bloomsbury and noticed something strange. The BT Tower which stands only a few blocks away from my building had completely disappeared. …
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A life more ordinary
“A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher and poet I’ve noticed a growing trend, particularly with us 30/40-somethings, a fear of being average. To live a life deemed to be mediocre seems to be something not just to actively avoid but dread. Our lives apparently must be extraordinary…
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Goodbye 2018. Hello 2019!
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next years words await another voice” TS Eliot Happy New Year! I hope you’ve had a restful and enjoyable festive holiday. For this month I wanted to focus on the potential opportunity, which a new year can bring. Over the past few years I’ve developed…
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Stuck on you
“If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy” anon When I think about co-dependency, I always recall a sign my mother had in our kitchen growing up which inscribed the above quote. The sign masqueraded as a “family joke” but as an adult I can see what a powerful message it sent out about who ruled…
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Thief of time
“You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” Benjamin Franklin “First you defrost the refrigerator.” Ernest Hemingway’s response to the question, “how do you write a novel?” You know what’s ironic? I’ve really struggled to write a decent opening to this piece about procrastination. I’ve drafted many sentences,…
Suzie Chick 