Your Soul Family

We seek calmness and the wisdom to be found there by building and painting a soul map back to our unconscious mind or soul. We seek to show others how to do it. The Your Soul Family (YSF) logo represents transformation and learning.

A soul map is a geometric picture that represents you and the key people in your life along with the relationships you have and the key life lessons you may be learning.

Spring is a time for change: simple steps to finding joy

After a long hard winter this year, Mother Nature is stirring.  New beginnings are arriving.

Now is the time to look at your life and decide if all is well or you want to introduce some changes.

Is your life bringing you joy?

Life is for enjoyment not endurance….  It always surprises me how a small change can often make a big difference to how you feel about your life, for example;

  • Making some time for yourself is a wonderful tonic when you lead a hectic work and home life.
  • No phones or email for a day can be a revelation giving uninterrupted time to focus on yourself, family or friends.
  • Make a lonely person happy by a visit sharing your chatter, fun and enjoyment of life.
  • Walk and talk in nature with a friend or loved one can make life feel worthwhile.
  • Time to sit in silence and find personal calmness.

Whatever brings you joy – seek it out over the long holiday weekend.

Drop a comment on what you are planning to do or have done.  I would love to hear from you. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

YSF weekend workshop, 14th April 2018

Your Soul Family weekend workshop for calmness and relaxation

Happiness is about doing what feels good to you. Find out what is important to you and makes you feel good. Painting your soul map will bring you closer to understanding your personal happiness.

Wondering what to do of a weekend?  Come to a Your Soul Family workshop and paint a soul map using one of our templates.  No artistic skills are required, its much like the painting by numbers we did as children. Fun, creative and relaxing – you will be surprised at the insights you receive about you and your life. Feel the calmness come in as you paint. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Mindful men: do we know our men?

In many cultures and communities, men are the leaders at work and at home. They earn a living for the family and have more limited involvement in rearing the children. Of course much of this is changing but it is not ubiquitous yet.

Recently a 55-year-old man from a traditional mining community confided to me he decided not to follow the traditional male role and to express his appreciation of the benefits that mindfulness brought him.  He is a grandfather and decided not to work so hard so he could be more involved with his grandchildren. He wished he had done it with his own children. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

How do you cope with one of the 3 Ds: divorce, death, debt?

Need help to cope with life’s challenges? You may need some on-going practices to help you with life which develops your insight into yourself and your behaviours plus boost your personal calmness. Beyond being successful at work, these practices can help you to feel more alive, happy and healthy in your life.  Do you need some help with achieving this?

You need a Soul Map!

For me, that realisation came in the early hours one night as, newly widowed and with children and a demanding job as a CIO, I confronted my anguish – and found not chaos and more pain but a space of calmness and route to strength and guidance. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Mother Nature: heals your soul

Living in a town or city it is too easy to slip into an urban life and lose touch with nature.  Yet it is while experiencing nature that often we feel more alive, happy and well.  Many people pursue a sport such as sailing, canoeing or horse riding that brings you close to nature. However staying in touch with nature can be as simple as a walk in the park.  It can be equally exhilarating as jumping a hedge with a horse.

Last week on my daily walk the sky opened and it poured with hard, thunder rain. I had a choice of turning for home or continuing to the park.  I went for the park and I was not disappointed. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Creating Your Soul Map; e-book launched

NB; Instructions on obtaining the Kindle reader app is at the end of this article.

Thank you everybody who pre-ordered my book on Amazon.  I really appreciate your support in helping me to get the mighty Amazon engine working for me.

When I uploaded the book it was number 56,342 in my genre!  Wow now that is a challenge to get the book seen.  Just through the pre-orders this moved to number 20,335.  How good is that!!

If you have not looked at the book, now is your chance.  The book is fully launched so you can use the Amazon ‘look inside’ facility to sample the first chapter.  Creating Your Soul Map provides techniques to know yourself better and to build your personal calmness so you can operate more effectively at work and at home.  It is a short book which introduces these new techniques, the background on the templates to aid choosing and gets you started. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Your Abundance: crucial tips you are not told

Desire

You all want to feel rich in love, truth and joy.  You want your loved ones to experience it too.  Can you teach yourself and your children how to attract abundance, to have your heart’s desire?

Teaching your children to manifest their desires

Every thought and action you take is based in either love or fear;

  • I say late at work for fear of my boss saying I had not accomplished enough.
  • I work hard to ensure the family I love is well provided for.

You can teach yourself to live your life from a position of love rather than fear.  Much of it is a mindset rather than a dramatic change in lifestyle.

We should provide children with opportunities to experience life from a position of love.  School Harvest Festival is a great example of this.  The children bring in simple gifts of food preferably ones which they have helped to pick or grow. read more

By Alison Wem, ago