by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Jul 1, 2019 | General, Habit Breaking, Mental detox, Relaxation, Thailand
The wind’s mood’s swings: fresh perspectives at Kamalaya, Ko Samui Last April, in 2018, as I swam to and fro in the lap pool at Kamalaya, a wellness retreat on the island of Ko Samui, I pondered on the plight of the long, streaming Buddhist prayer flags flying...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | May 7, 2018 | General
Were you punished by writing lines at school? You and I perhaps remember staying in detention at school and ‘writing lines’? These ‘lines’ were usually an extra-curricular punishment, and so scribed after school hours. But sometimes not: on occasion, lines were...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Nov 9, 2015 | General, Hypnotherapy
How do some movies move you toward a path? You may have seen the Hollywood film, City of Angels, starring Meg Ryan, but I first saw the original, Wings of Desire, more than twenty years ago it seems. The movie is directed by Wim Wenders, and like the film, The Wizard...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Nov 6, 2014 | General
Do you fear having the knife stuck in you when you are still awake? I regard the process of being anaesthetised as my personal leap in the dark, my bungy-jump-cum-sky-diving-cum-cliff-top moment. I clutch the hand of the usually compassionate (and one hopes,...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Nov 1, 2014 | General
Halloween and Happy Halloween greetings I am writing on the evening of Halloween and so you may be forgiven for thinking I am about to perform a ghoulish act or am in the act of faking an amputation, which in the current world situation is in very bad taste. But...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Oct 4, 2014 | General
What can you not get out of your head? And is that thought doing you good? Is it a line from a song being played on your favourite audio system? “Twist and shout… yeah baby… twist and shout… work it all out…” Or is it an...