The blog on Cafe Self site you are reading now is several years long. Since 2020 I started writing about Colourpuncture based on my personal, clinical and teaching experience and (more…)
Imagine that the early environment you grew up in – your parental family, home, immediate surroundings – had an inbuilt warmth, love and passion or caring and enthusiasm – meter (more…)
Summer is a season of Fire Element. A balanced Fire reads love; authentic expression; creativity; flowing communication – and simply the joy of life. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) gives us (more…)
Just-one-phrase journalling practice for complex life situations which can create a real difference. It certainly did for me. It saved my sanity and gave me a sense of perspective at (more…)
This is a fragment of a bigger Colorpuncture treatment for colds and flus; it can be used other inflammatory processes in the face and head (ears, teeth, sinuses, nose, throat); (more…)
Unresolved conflicts in the family…it’s hard to find a family not affected by it. There is a difference however between an ‘unresolved’ conflict and ‘unresolvable’ one. The Unresolved conflict may (more…)
There are many ways to journal and when it comes to self-care, reflection, getting to clarity or inner explorations, we tend to stick to the easy and familiar: stream of (more…)
When I started with Colourpuncture I was amazed with the soft power of deep transformation it may bring. At the same time, early in my practice I could also see (more…)
What do we do with disappointments in our life? Usually…(a quick Google search on ‘disappointment’) we tend to ‘cope/deal with’ or ‘get over’ or even ‘distract ourselves from’ disappointments by (more…)
In all natural traditions, Spring time is associated with detox, cleanse, decluttering and general refresh. One elusive aspect of a ‘refresh’ involves vision. Better vision of our here and now (more…)
