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Do We Know How To Be Human?

6/19/2022

 
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After the last post on death and dying - I felt there was an important question to ask - do we know how to live?! Let's be honest, there are handbooks for everything and most of them tell us we are have much to learn, so when Cynthia Hickman a psychotherapist wrote a 'Handbook for Being Human' I was intrigued. My interview with Cynthia talks to how we grow up in this world without buying into the fear factor that is fed to us left, right, centre, up and down! 

Towards the end of the interview Cynthia shares how important we all are to the culture of our world. I so love her call for us all to be part of the change we want to see in the world - to change the culture of being human from the ground up. I see bulbs are sprouting already...
Can we change the culture of being Human?
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Do we know how to be Human?

Resources

For bookings and to connect with Cynthia Hickman, check out her Website
The book covered today Being Human
To read some of her blogs - connect here 

On Death and Dying

5/28/2022

 
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We have so many pictures of death and dying. What has transpired from these interviews is the way we can reduce those we deeply love to the physical form they have held in our lives and then miss out on the blessing of what is available after they pass.
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So should we be questioning our use of the words we use around death and dying? For example, have we really 'lost' a loved one like we might lose a ring or a possession, or can we not 'lose' what was never ours to own in the first place?
When I was looking at her (body after she had passed), I could still feel her, I could still feel everything I had held her in and she had held me in - I hadn't lost a thing - Jasmine Prentice
The best way I can love him is to fully accept that that was his complete life and yet at the same time know there is no end to that relationship - Deborah Savran
Are we always feeling that our relationships with everybody in every moment has a sense of deep appreciation, an opportunity to see their essence, who they innately are, and then, do we always feel that everything expressed has been completed? Grief is our unspoken expressions. ​Anita Stansfield
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Death And Dying

Further Resources

Links to 
Jasmine Prentice's blogs
Kate Chorley's Living with Quality...Oh and Cancer
Deborah Savran's Wellbeing website
DeborahSavran's music - 
Anita's Celebrant business

The Online Dating Compendium

4/20/2022

 
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Online dating has been around for more than 20 years, but has exploded in recent years and potentially become a necessity due to a pesky virus that has way too many living in silos. This has stopped one of the most natural processes from taking place. Coming together and meeting new people. Where has all the dating gone? Now, it seemed, life was more about ticking boxes and working out what you wanted, what you liked and didn't like, and finding someone who fitted that picture. The algorithm would do all the hard work for you!

But it seems it is not quite that simple. Here you will find a series of interviews that share the varied experiences that come from online dating. The online-dating Compendium - Our Compendium of Love.
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Clearly this is but a peek into the world of online dating, there are many diverse experiences missing, however, what has been shared here will sound and feel familiar regardless of perceived differences.


​Enormous thanks to my wonderful interviewees - every one of them so willing to share their experiences of online dating. We experiences from teens to 70s!
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Hannah - Embrace being you
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Rosie - Don't lower your standards for anyone
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Shelley - Intergrity Is A Must
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Marika - This is who I am
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Helen - What you put in is what you get out
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Trudy From Mr High To Mr Right
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Susan Sharing All Your Gorgeousness

Online dating and exclusivity

2/8/2022

 
Dating seems to have changed. It is not just about the restrictions and the need for more online interaction, even before that, there was a sense that you shouldn't commit to a relationship too early because we might miss out on something 'better'. That better seems to mean playing the field but always searching for 'the one'. Pictures galore of what we think 'the one' is and all the while there is no true connection being looked for or found.

This is a two part blog on relationships and exclusivity. I am starting with exclusivity because that is what triggered the realisation for me that dating had changed, and my interest to discover in the way we date now. 

What I have discovered is a sense that there is a push-pull between the connection we are looking for and the fear of being alone that makes us accept the destructive games and 'settle' for a crumb of attention rather than the connection we truly know we all want and deserve.

I love how these women share some top tips for setting standards and knowing your self-worth way before you meet someone. 

Meet Hannah, Marika, Shelley and Rosie. 4 slightly different perspectives.

Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Online Dating and Navigating Exclusivity

Back recording!

1/21/2022

 

Stay in the Loop with Lucy is back recording and what's to come is going to knock your socks off!

Coming up any day now is an audio that was started by a collaboration with The Post where there was just so much to share about our dating scene and what we class as a relationship and love. The interviews build on some of our previous interviews and just highlight that we are really living such a reduced version of the Love we all know should be in our relationships.
Here are links to some of the previous audios
Communication in Relationships
Decency and respect in Relationships
Gay relationships and Same Sex Marriage
Intimacy - Up close and Personal
Time to Love Unconditionally
The Power of Love and the Heart

If you want to read some of the earlier articles from the post - check them out here 

Understanding Your Gamer

7/12/2020

 
Leigh has been there and done that - she has seen herself as highly successful online but been unemployed and on benefits in real life. Her advice is - "When someone who games, talks to someone who doesn't game, you may as well be talking Japanese because if you don't know the lingo, then a lot of miscommunication can happen....You don't have to like gaming, but if you like or love the person who is gaming, then understanding what they are saying does help :-)
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Gaming With Leigh
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Finding Your Voice

5/30/2020

 
Young people have much to say but how do they find an outlet for that expression without being intimidated by doing something new or meeting new people? Meet Eloise who started to see the benefits of the Social Justice team in year 9 at school and now sees it as part of who she is and her purpose in life. It wasn't always easy but it was worth every step and she is still just at the beginning!
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Stay in the Loop with Lucy · Finding Your Voice

A Woman's Cycle - more than a 'monthly inconvenience'?

5/24/2020

 
How do we talk about women's cycles? Is menstruation still something we keep hidden and don't talk about? Does sex education only concentrate on the function of a woman's body for pregnancy, or making sure we don't get pregnant? And how many of us have described our menstrual cycle as a curse, an inconvenience, or have tried whatever means possible to stop their period coming?

If that is the case, what would the impact be? 

Would we not understand why we feel tired, cranky, get cramps, have difficulty conceiving?

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Sara Harris from Living Stillness and founder of Follow Your Flow explains how our body has a cycle which has different seasons just like the seasons around us. If you want more information about the different quality and stages of the cycles, check out Sara's amazing and programs through Follow Your Flow. She also has audios and blogs that can support a deeper relationship with your cycle - enjoy all the website has to offer!
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · A Womans Flow

Parenting in Lockdown

5/6/2020

 
We have all these pictures about how to be the perfect parent and they can all come to a rather messy, puss filled head when constrained by lockdown and restrictions in our physical space. Yet how we approach it can have a massive impact on outcomes. What if it is a wonderful opportunity to listen to each other and to honour what each person in the home is feeling? Join me by to three amazing guests Rachel Mascord, Carmin Hall, Vanessa McHardy share their powerful lived experiences.
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I lost my job and found myself

5/4/2020

 
Meet two men who have had to re-assess their approach to their role in life. In their separate worlds they had been brought up and conditioned to see themselves as the provider for their families. That meant leaving their wives to bring up their children and finding themselves defined by their jobs. So what happens when their jobs are no longer available? Sam built a $2m company to a $20m company, travelled the world, employed a large staff, was expanding only to find the company experience a major change and close. Greg who lost his job last week but found it was a vastly different experience from the last time he lost his job thanks to the foundation he has built for himself.
We are so much more than we allow ourselves to believe we are,
we are so worth it.
Greg
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The more you talk about it and let your emotions out the better it is - eventually
Sam
Stay in the Loop with Lucy · I lost my job and I found myself

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