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Navigating Resistance: A Path to Inner Peace and Greater Productivity
Coaching Victoria Silas Coaching Victoria Silas

Navigating Resistance: A Path to Inner Peace and Greater Productivity

Let’s talk about resistance. That sneaky bandit of prosperity that can ruin your day at any moment and how to escape its clutches.

The Oxford Dictionary defines resistance as the refusal to accept or comply with something. In Star Trek, when the Borg prepares to assimilate a ship it declares, “Resistance is futile”, meaning the ship has no chance of escape.

In coaching, resistance has a different connotation and is readily escapable, but takes some mental effort. It’s not an attack from without, it’s an attack from within when your mind refuses to accept the reality of the situation that you’re in.

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Adventures in Wildness: How the African Bush Awakens the Human Spirit
Wellness, Coaching Victoria Silas Wellness, Coaching Victoria Silas

Adventures in Wildness: How the African Bush Awakens the Human Spirit

There is an aliveness in the African bush. And in many other natural places in the world, but the African bush is where I find it the easiest to access and experience it with effortless awareness. Perhaps because one of the elements that makes the African bush so special, at least in several places in South Africa where I’ve been, is that for years the natural state of the land was suppressed by overhunting and aggressive agriculture of crops that nature didn’t plant here.

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