01 Sep Thank you! Celebrating our 1st year
We cannot believe that we launched Conscious Pause one year ago and what a year it has been! During our reflections on the past year, we recognized how much we learned...
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” - Anais Nin
14 Aug Practicing what we preach: Sabbatical
We are coming up to our one year anniversary of blogging with Conscious Pause. Thank you to everyone in our community for reading and responding. For the past year, we...
11 Aug Guest Post: The Great Global Pause
Over the next couple posts, we have invited some friends of ours to share their thoughts on taking a pause. Our second guest blogger is Dr. Michael Lickers. Mike is an...
01 Aug Pause for thought: Dive into the poetry of David Whyte
“You always meet the new you in the form of a stranger.”—David Whyte For our loyal readers, it will not come as a surprise of our affection for the poet David...
28 Jul Guest Post: Jay’s Conscious Pause Approach
Over the next couple posts, we have invited some friends of ours to share their thoughts on taking a pause. First up is Jay MacGillivray. Jay is a curious person with...
14 Jul Sabbatical Culture Shock
If you have ever travelled to far off destinations, especially to countries whose culture is quite different from your own, you have probably experienced some form of culture shock. Sometimes...
03 Jul Pause for thought: Gratitude, magic and pausing
Our Friday posts are a pause, a little tidbit, maybe even something to get the gears going for you...
30 Jun Coming Home from your Sabbatical
At the end of your Sabbatical, “coming home” may be an unexpected experience...
19 Jun Pause for thought: What is conscious pausing?
Would you like to figure out how to fit self care into your routine? Do you need more "un-busy" hours in your day? Or, would you like time to think about your...
16 Jun Pause for the love of words
One of the things I love is how a word can make me pause. Sometimes it is a word from another language other than English. The unfamiliarity of the sound...