Author: Stephanie Hills

  • Being alive

    Our greatest gift is the gift of consciousness, the ability to perceive what is around us and within us, yet most of the time we forget how miraculous that truly is. Responding to demands and expectations, we can find ourselves treating life like a list of chores. We categorise, compare, make plans, try to control […]

  • Helping to find his way home

    A reader writes: “I was chatting to one of the Mums at school pick up and she was telling me how she was approached in the supermarket car park by an elderly man who was very confused and didn’t know where he was. He had driven in his car quite some distance and got lost. […]

  • More quotes from kids

    “I can’t be quiet. My mouth gets itchy when it has words in it.” (Jon Paul, 4 years old) “I wish this wasn’t real life and I was just a refrigerator!” (Beau, 3 years old) ““I’m not mad. I’m just hungry and I hate you!”                                                                  (Anonymous 7-year-old) “Let’s play cops and Roberts. I’ll be […]

  • Create a Happiness Plan

    Book an in-person or online consultation to create a personalised Happiness Inventory & Happiness Plan. A Happiness Plan is a broad-strokes guide, to give you a sense of direction. Not a career plan, but a guide to finding more joy in the details, greater life satisfaction and deeper meaning in your roles in life.                       […]

  • Pink Shirt Attitude in Action

    In 2007, two Canadian high school students noticed a new boy getting bullied for wearing a pink shirt. They dealt with the situation in a most creative way, buying up a load of cheap pink shirts and messaging all their friends, so that the next day the school was a sea of pink. Pink Shirt […]

  • Worthy. How to Believe You Are Enough and Change Your Life

    Worthy. How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life. Simple Steps, Life-Changing Results. By Jamie Kern Lima According to the author, you don’t get what you want, you get what you believe you are worthy of. And if you don’t feel worthy before reading this book, you certainly will afterwards. Jamie Kern Lima […]

  • Real quotes from children

    “I’m not insulting you; I’m describing you.”  (Anonymous 6-year-old) “I love the sound of no-one talking.” (Anonymous 6-year-old) “Parmesan cheese is like glitter for your spaghetti.” (Callum, 4 years old) “I’ve been having a hard day for the last two years.” (Anonymous 4-year-old) “I can’t show you how much I missed you because my hands […]

  • Smile – and feel better

    Try holding a pencil between your teeth, in such a way that the pencil doesn’t touch your lips. This forces your face into something that looks like a smile. Years ago, experimenters found that people holding a pencil in this way rated cartoons as funnier than they did without the pencil. The conclusion was that […]

  • These puns are fully groan…

    I had my patience tested. I’m negative. The older I get, the earlier it gets late. I got a new drum kit today. It takes some beating. I went to the paint shop to get thinner. It didn’t work. I don’t want to get technical or anything, but according to chemistry, alcohol is a solution.

  • Help on the bridge

    A disabled lady in an electric wheelchair got stuck in a rut while crossing a narrow bridge. She could not go forwards or backwards.  A guy in a big car, possibly a Jaguar, stopped his car on the brow of the bridge and got out to help.  The stuck woman said afterwards, “No idea who […]