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Just Shake the Cake

  • Post author:Cate Mackenzie
  • Post published:March 24, 2026
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I’ve been thinking about my grandfather, Gordon. When I was seventeen, my sister and I travelled with him to Brazil, the country where he truly lived from the age of…

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Read more about the article Dating After Divorce: Flirting, Healing, and Finding Your Confidence Again

Dating After Divorce: Flirting, Healing, and Finding Your Confidence Again

  • Post author:Cate Mackenzie
  • Post published:August 20, 2025
  • Post category:Blog

Change is the one constant in life. As the Buddhists remind us, it’s inevitable, and sometimes it brings with it challenges we didn’t ask for. Whether it’s navigating divorce, supporting…

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Deep Brain Reorienting! 

  • Post author:Emma Alexandra
  • Post published:June 6, 2025
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Pictured above is Armukara Angel, Vinny Jones and me in the Ceremony Dome at The Mind Body Spirit Festival last Sunday where I ran an "Open Your Heart" session. I…

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Summer with Your Love Coach

  • Post author:Emma Alexandra
  • Post published:May 23, 2025
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Can you feel it? That soft shimmer of summertime just beginning to stretch across the days — a time of renewal, clarity, and blossoming possibilities. As the seasons shift, it’s…

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Spring Is Here

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  • Post published:May 1, 2025
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I hope my readers are enjoying these warmer, brighter days as much as I am!  Recently, I have been “on tour” to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Birmingham and London whilst simultaneously…

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A Strange Journey

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  • Post published:April 3, 2025
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I hope you are well. I have had the life-transforming experience of being on tour to Scotland with my attachment talks and running a six-week attachment online course, plus breaking…

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Getting Loved-Up!

  • Post author:Emma Alexandra
  • Post published:March 14, 2025
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I am writing to share a lovely story of hope around dating, which you can read about below and a tip on love languages. Also, I am on tour in…

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Harmony Rupture Despair Vs Harmony Rupture Repair

  • Post author:Emma Alexandra
  • Post published:January 25, 2025
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I am really thrilled to be running a six week online course on attachment theory, designed to help one explore their own attachment and needs, but also how to respond to…

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Happy New Year!

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  • Post published:January 1, 2025
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There is so much going on in the world, and so many people need love and care. It seems that community is becoming more and more essential, and I am…

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Merry Christmas!

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  • Post published:December 20, 2024
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I wanted to write a little message to wish you well. This time of year can be simple for some and complex for others. Some people do not celebrate Christmas, so…

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    Confidence is not always missing. Sometimes it is Confidence is not always missing.

Sometimes it is just context specific.

You may be confident in your work.
On stage.
With friends.
In your creativity.
In the way you speak, lead, care, listen, or hold a room.

And then suddenly, when attraction is involved, something changes.

You feel shy.
Awkward.
Overexposed.
Unsure what to say.

It can feel confusing, because you know you have these skills somewhere.

But intimacy can touch different parts of us.

A date is not just a conversation.
It can awaken longing, fear, hope, self-consciousness, and the wish to be chosen.

So the work is not always to become more confident from scratch.

Sometimes it is to gently remember.

Where do I already know how to connect?
Where do I already take up space?
Where do I already bring warmth, humour, presence, curiosity?

And how can I bring a little of that part of me here too?

Not as a performance.
Not as a mask.

But as a way of coming back to yourself.

Because sometimes the confidence you are looking for is already there.

It just needs a safer bridge into this part of your life.

What part of you would you like to bring more fully into dating?

#ConsciousDating #DatingConfidence #EmotionalAwareness #SelfConnection #RelationshipHealing
    Everybody talks about meditation. 🌿 And yes… there Everybody talks about meditation. 🌿
And yes… there are so many resources out there,
apps, videos, guided practices, even on my YouTube channel.

But something I often notice is how confusing it can feel.
What am I actually meant to do?
Am I doing this right?

So I wanted to share a little of what it can feel like to be in a meditation with me.

We begin gently. 💗
Just arriving into the body.
Noticing your breath.
Feeling where you are, right now.

There’s no need to get anywhere.
Nothing to achieve.
Just a soft landing into yourself.

Sometimes we bring an intention. ✨
A quiet opening towards something,
love, peace, comfort, clarity.

Not to force it,
but to allow a little space for it.

And then, often, a simple question.
Hello… how am I, really?

Letting whatever is there be there.
Meeting yourself with a little more curiosity,
a little more kindness. 💗

From here, it becomes less about doing meditation “well”
and more about being in relationship with yourself.

Listening.
Softening.
Letting go of what isn’t needed,
and allowing something supportive to come in.

Meditation isn’t about leaving yourself.
It’s about coming home to yourself, 🕊️
in your own time,
in your own way.

If meditation has ever felt difficult or inaccessible,
you’re not doing it wrong.
You might just need a different kind of space to land in.

If this speaks to you, you’re very welcome to explore more with me,
in sessions or through the practices I share.

What would you like to gently open to right now? 🌸

#MeditationPractice #EmotionalWellbeing #SelfConnection #MindfulLiving #InnerWork
    I am Off to the Mind Body Spirit Festival In Olymp I am
Off to the Mind Body Spirit Festival
In Olympia on Saturday 23rd May giving a workshop in the morning a 10.30am on Opening the Heart: Reclaiming the Sacred Power of Love and Self Worth

then a talk on Opening Your Heart to Love at 1.15 in the Ceremony Space and talk on Opening Your Heart to Self Love on Monday 25th May at 1.30pm in Midlife Wisdom

https://www.mindbodyspiritfestival.co.uk/london/whats-on/features/ceremony-space/1803/cate-mackenzie-workshop-opening-the-heart-reclaiming-the-sacred-power-of-love-and-self-worth # # lovecoach #openyourheart #mindbodyspirit Mind Body Spirit Festival
    #lovecoach #love #relationships #lovecoach #love #relationships
    My hearts were on display @therocketvancoffeeshop My hearts were on display @therocketvancoffeeshop curated divinely by @andrewlogansculptor with @msgeorgia_mackenzie #lovecoach #art #rocketvan #andrewlogan #hearts
    A quiet offering… shared outwards. There’s someth A quiet offering… shared outwards.

There’s something deeply personal about placing your work into the world.
Not just as something to look at, but something to feel, to connect with, to be received in ways you can’t predict.

This week, I’m part of The Rocketvan Spring Exhibition,
92 Brandon Street, London SE17 1AL,
from Thursday 30th April to Sunday May 3rd.

And I’ve been sitting with what it means to share something that comes from within.

Because in many ways, it mirrors how we show up in life.
In relationships.
In love.

We offer pieces of ourselves without certainty.
Without knowing exactly how they’ll land.

And yet, there’s something powerful in that openness.

Art isn’t about having it all figured out.
It’s about expression.
Letting something move through you and giving it shape.

Allowing it to exist, just as it is.

Perhaps that’s what this space holds.
An invitation to pause.
To feel.
To notice what resonates, and what doesn’t.

To stay curious about your own response.

Because often, what touches us carries meaning beyond the moment.

If you’re nearby, you’re warmly invited to come along and experience it.

And if you do, I’d love to know…
what did it stir in you?

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