What do you really want & how do you know you are right?
Maybe you don’t lack the resilience to change. Maybe you’re using all of it to stay exactly where you are.
Richard Elwell
26 August 2026
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Burnout: The Silent Drift
How do people burn out when, from the outside, they still look successful? Sometimes it isn’t a dramatic collapse. It’s a slow drift — one more deadline, one more late night, one more “could you just…?” — until coping becomes normal and nobody notices the fuse is burning. Including you.
Richard Elwell
21 August 2026
The Art of Keeping Going on
Challenge can be exhilarating. It can give us purpose. It can bring people together. It can remind us that we are capable of considerably more than we thought.
Richard Elwell
19 August 2026
The Classroom Changed. The Game Didn’t.
Who is the parent?
Richard Elwell
18 August 2026
The Space Between...
Years of practice hadn’t removed the irritation. The practice was noticing what arose when the peacock inevitably squawked.
Richard Elwell
17 August 2026
Chapter 7 - The clarity born of realisation - Coming home
No final lesson. No instructions. No promise that things would be easy. Only that... You did the work. You live your life.
Richard Elwell
16 August 2026
Chapter six - Groundhog day
The patterns we develop, create the stories we live...
Richard Elwell
15 August 2026
Chapter five - Pain is inevitable...
Life is how we think we saw it, not how it definitely was, how we chose to interpret it...
Richard Elwell
14 August 2026
Chapter four - The Past Unfurls
At past doesn't define who we are, it shows us what we remember and how we chose to make meaning of it.
Richard Elwell
13 August 2026
Chapter three - Not my pig, not my farm
The guides role was to listen and gently support, not to answer or to give you fixes.
Richard Elwell
12 August 2026
Chapter two - The First Story.
There's an ancient Chinese curse... "Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it..."
Richard Elwell
11 August 2026
Chapter one - The Promise
Our past uncovers us.
Richard Elwell
10 August 2026