by belindanoakes | Jun 30, 2016 | Spirituality
Half the year is over. It’s been six months since my world turned upside down. Six months of re-evaluating everything I thought I knew and everything I thought was true. Slowly, I’m starting to write again. I’ve made some changes around my online home. For me,...
by belindanoakes | Apr 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Marion Woodman expressed it best: “perfection rapes the soul”. She was right. The quest for perfection creates a lonely life. Because when I’m on it, I don’t even have my Soul for company. I’ve been working on a post for a couple of...
by belindanoakes | Mar 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Over the past three months, I’ve received multiple invitations to trust life more deeply than I’ve ever done before. I’ve been inside a perfect storm of insecurity, instability and uncertainty. I’ve been asked to face my deepest fears: that the...
by belindanoakes | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Rumi: What you seek is seeking you. A couple of weeks after I quit my corporate job in 2010, I went to Turkey. After hanging out in Istanbul and at the beach with a friend, I got on a bus alone and went to Konya – the small city in Central Anatolia where Rumi is...
by belindanoakes | Jan 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
I never met David Bowie. I saw him perform live only once, on a big stage in a large venue. It wasn’t an intimate gig. I didn’t get backstage afterwards. We didn’t know each other. To me, he was only ever an idea/l. But I’m sitting here the day after he died and I...
