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OLLY ALEXANDER BRANFORD COACHING


The Colour of Emotions
Look up at the sky. Are there clouds, grey and solemn, in a windless sky, reflecting your melancholy? Or wisps floating carelessly on a...
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May 17, 20249 min read


Success
For my 150th article I thought I would discuss success. Here is the key to success: Enjoy the love of creating rather than trying to...
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May 16, 20247 min read


The Power of Vulnerability
I had an amazing experience in the recovery rooms today. I allowed my Self to be completely vulnerable , without the hint of any mask, and shared my Truth in two invited shares at separate recovery meetings. What I found was that when I am totally vulnerable , it opens the gate for others to do the same. People immediately took off their masks and allowed themselves to express their emotions and deepest fears as they shared afterwards. Many people cried. It was a deeply
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May 16, 20246 min read


Walking Through The Fire
Carl Jung was a prominent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and also a spiritual Master , who had much to say about the human psyche. He...
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May 15, 20248 min read


A Taste of Enlightenment
Enlightenment , or awakening, is always present : It is accessible at any time. Through conditioning by the world, along with thinking...
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May 14, 20245 min read


From Ego to Self
Carl J ung wrote that “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego , the second half is going inward and letting go of...
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May 13, 20248 min read


My Truth
This is what I share when asked to in recovery and healing meetings. I have been invited to speak at four international meetings this week about my experience. I attend around five meetings per week. Thank you for reading this – I am truly full of gratitude . I hope that this article, and my experience, strength, and hope, will serve you in some way that is helpful to you. My Truth includes a major comeback, peace in my Soul, and a Grace that saved me. The only person I ever
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May 12, 202414 min read


Grievance or Miracle?
As often quoted by the American presidential candidate Marianne Williamson from ‘A Course In Miracles ’ it says "You can have a grievance...
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May 12, 20245 min read


Halting the Flight From Fully Feeling
Susanne Short wrote that “ When a child is not allowed to experience feelings of sadness, anger, loss, and frustration, his or her real...
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May 12, 202410 min read


Emotional Emaciation and Emancipation
We are doing it all wrong. We are trying to escape our emotions , when they are our greatest teachers. There is no healing without...
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May 11, 202418 min read


Self-Forgiveness
This is a pretty huge topic and one that is deeply relevant to the human condition and healing . For my article on forgiveness click here...
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May 10, 202420 min read


Reparenting Your Self
Pete Walker describes the process of reparenting your Self beautifully in his excellent book, which is in my suggested reading list , ‘...
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May 9, 202422 min read


The Three Principles
Syd Banks was an ordinary working man who experienced a sudden and profound spiritual Enlightenment in 1973. In the 36 years that...
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May 8, 20245 min read


Are You in Despair?
Do you feel that, despite all your intelligence, achievements, and promise, that your life has imploded, and that your life is not what...
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May 7, 202415 min read


Connection
“Namaste: I honour the place in you where the entire Universe resides. I honour the place in you of love , of Truth , of peace , and of...
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May 5, 20248 min read


Let Your Self Off The Hook
Thoughts precede emotions , even if you are not aware of them. You are living in the feeling of your thinking, not the feeling of your...
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May 4, 202412 min read


Inner Knowing
Franz Kafka wrote “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be...
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May 3, 20246 min read


Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway
Susan Jeffers wrote one of the landmark books on fear : ‘ Feel the fear and do it anyway .' The overriding message of the book is that...
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May 3, 20247 min read


Why We Suffer
Friedrich Nietzsche said that “To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” But why do we suffer? And how...
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May 1, 20245 min read


From Pain to Peace
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” ( Henry David Thoreau). We are living on a dysfunctional , Dystopian Earth right...
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May 1, 202421 min read
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