10/04/2026
A massive thanks to Les Peebles for his brilliant guest blog - Finding the Pause: A Simple Practice for When Life Gets Loud.
'For a long time, I believed that the conflict in my life was everyone else's fault.
I had experienced a lot of it—from being bullied as an eight-year-old, to deep conflicts in communities and my own marriage. I felt misunderstood, and my response was anger. I became a shouter. I wasn't physically violent, but my shouting was a form of emotional violence that scared the people closest to me. And I couldn't see it. I genuinely believed I was the reasonable one, and the world was just winding me up.
Until one afternoon when I was 37....'
A guest post by Les Peebles, Creator of The Four Turning Points Method Em is my homeopath, and during the time I’ve known her she has become someone I genuinely value — not just for her skill and...