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Something a little different from me today.

I’m honoured to be one of three candidates for the ICF Professional Coaches Global Board, the body that sets the direction for professional coaches worldwide.

I’ve sat on both sides of the tab

For a long time, addiction was explained as a lack of discipline or a moral failing. The research tells a more compassionate and more useful story.

Our nervous systems are shaped in relationship. When a young child’s distress is met, soothed,

The words we reach for when someone is grieving usually come from care. But a reason, a silver lining, or a reminder to stay strong can quietly ask them to feel something other than what they feel.

Grief lives in the body. What helps most isn’

Success can make a pattern harder to see.

You can be capable, respected, and outwardly composed, while your jaw tightens before the board meeting, your inbox stays open at midnight, and the same argument returns at home.

That gap is at the centre o

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Why do we keep returning to patterns we know are hurting us?

It’s rarely a lack of discipline. Before your nervous system asks whether something is good for you, it asks whether it’s safe. And to the body, familiar feels safe, even when

John Cummins

Somatic Therapy & Coaching · Zurich

Writing on the nervous system, growth & healing

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