One Singing Heart

18/12/2025

The Gift of Giving....I recently travelled with my son Kabir to celebrate Claire and Manen Ngarden Tamang's beautiful wedding in Darjeeling. It was incredible in every way.

We then travelled on to Agra, where Kabir received beautiful garlands of flowers from the priest at the oldest Shiva temple. In Vrindavan, a holy pilgrimage town devoted to Krishna, Kabir was invited to distribute bananas to the holy men coming on their alms round.

There were so many powerful moments for us.

As Christmas approaches, it is a beautiful reminder for me that the gift of giving goes far beyond the presents we offer. It is the intention behind the giving and the human connections we strengthen. It is the renewed hope for joy and peace we awaken.

The greatest gift is often the simplest…a smile, a kind word, reaching out to someone in need.

Every act of generosity creates ripples that go far beyond the moment, weaving an endless dance of giving and receiving between us ❤️

Here is to giving with love, to meaningful impact, and to seeing the world a little brighter through purposeful action!

✨ As the year draws to a close and a new one begins, why not offer yourself or a friend the gift of coaching? A space to reflect, realign, and step forward with clarity. DM me if you would like to explore how I can accompany you on your journey.

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17/12/2025

Thank you dear Abbie Huff-Camara for your trust and recommending me as a coach to support your clients whilst you take a break. For anyone curious about how I can accompany you on your life journey connect with me: catherine@onesingingheart.com. I would love to hear from you! ✨

16/12/2025

Forgiveness. Letting go. Softening.
Walking forward with a little more ease.

At our recent Healing of Memories workshop in Senegal, many participants found ourselves asking:
How do we forgive? How do we release what has hurt us? How do we move forward without the weight of old pain?

At the workshop, we came together in ritual, to acknowledge our stories, to honour our pain, and to take a step towards letting go, individually and collectively. We created symbols of peace and hope, small, tangible reminders that healing is possible.

We lit candles together. Some were offered in memory of loved ones who have passed. Others for all those suffering in war zones. For children who have been maltreated. For those who feel alone. For those who are suffering in silence.

When we soften toward our own story, something opens, energy releases and we have more space for compassion, for connection, for walking together with more gentleness.

As the year draws to a close, I invite you to reflect:

✨What are you still holding that is asking to be released?
✨What would it feel like to let go — even just a little — of the burdens you’ve been carrying?
✨What act of forgiveness (towards yourself or another) could help you enter 2026 with less weight and more room to breathe?

✨If you feel called to explore what is asking to be released right now, I would be honoured to accompany you. DM me if you would like to begin this journey together.

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12/12/2025

Connection. Release. Relief. Liberation. Tenderness. Love. Being human, together.

These are the words participants offered at our Healing of Memories workshop held in Dakar, Senegal last week.

In 2024, I had the honour of being in Benin with 25 participants from nine countries across West and Central Africa for the Institute for Healing of Memories training.

And in late 2025, we gathered again with 28 participants from Senegal, Togo, Guinea-Bissau, Congo Brazzaville, Luxembourg, Poland, Austria, the UK, and Spain.

Different stories, different histories… yet we came together in shared humanity to laugh, to cry, to comfort, to hope, to dream and to celebrate.

As Father Michael, the Institute’s founder, says:“Every person has a story, and every story has a listener.”After surviving a letter-bomb attack during his anti-apartheid activism, he dedicated his life to supporting individual and collective healing around the world.

During the workshop we took steps, together, towards greater acceptance of our past, clearing space to feel more hopeful about the future, our own and that of our communities and of the .

What story within you wants to be heard?
What is the next step on your healing journey?

✨ If your story is calling for a new chapter, I would be honoured to accompany you. DM me to explore how we can work together.

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09/12/2025

“Every person has a story and every story has a listener.” Those are the words of Father Michael Lapsley, an inspirational man whose life embodies courage and compassion.

After surviving a letter bomb attack following his anti-apartheid activism, he went on to found the Institute for the Healing of Memories, dedicating his life to supporting individual and collective healing around the world.

“If poisonous memories are kept inside they infect the whole system - from the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual - this is true for individuals, but also communities and entire nations.”

What story within you wants to be heard? What is the next step you will take on our healing journey?

✨If your story is calling for a new chapter, I would be honoured to accompany you. DM me to explore how we can work together.

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08/12/2025

✨ Breaking the Silence Around Men’s Mental Health. Thank you Godfrey Kagaayi for sharing such an important and courageous message on International Men’s Day last month.
I had the privilege of meeting Godfrey — a pioneering mental health activist from Uganda — at The Wellbeing Summit in Senegal in 2023, which I helped co-organise with NGO Tostan and The Wellbeing Project.

There is so much awareness around International Women’s Day but far fewer conversations about men’s emotional wellbeing, even though it is equally essential. Men, too, need places where they can express how they feel…to be seen, heard, supported, and understood.

Silence should not be the norm. Healing begins when we can express what is going on inside.

In my coaching and expressive arts practice, this is exactly what I offer:
a compassionate, warm-hearted space for ALL people — individuals and couples — to pause, reflect, gain clarity, and take meaningful steps toward the changes they want to make in their lives.

If you’re longing to feel more connected, grounded, or aligned with yourself, you do not have to walk that path alone.

✨ Contact me to explore how I can accompany you to express your full potential and live the life of your dreams:
📧 catherine@onesingingheart.com

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05/12/2025

✨ Big news — my first newsletter is live! ✨
If you’re drawn to coaching, expressive arts, and the healing power of presence… this is for you.

Inside, you will discover:
🍀 A deeper look into my coaching and expressive arts practice — what guides my work, who I support, and how I can walk alongside you.
🍀 Insights from a recent workshop on the healing power of being truly seen and heard.
🍀 An inspiring opportunity to participate in a creative project that supports an art therapy association in Senegal.

As the nights draw in and the year begins to soften, I invite you to pause and reflect:

What has impacted you most in 2025 and how might that shape what you choose to carry into 2026?

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✨ Ready to explore your full potential and create the life of your dreams? I would love to accompany you.
📧 catherine@onesingingheart.com

Personal and Collective Transformation Coaching and Expressive Arts.

02/12/2025

🌄What a view! Here with my son, Kabir, in India for our first visit at a friend’s wedding in Darjeeling.

From our beautiful nest at the Golden Orchid Hotel in Darjeeling, we explored and had incredible views of Kanchenjunga we explored and had incredible views of Kanchenjunga India’s highest peak and the highest peak I’ve ever seen…

The mountains, the colours, the stillness… all of it echoed a truth I return to again and again: clarity comes when we create space for ourselves. After the initial days of mist when we first arrived there is a moment, when the view opens up and everything becomes clearer.
It reminded me of the work I offer to accompany clients through my coaching business to create space, find clarity, and uncover the wisdom already within you.

✨If you’re ready to step into your next chapter with a clearer heart and steadier footing, I am here to accompany you. DM me to explore how we can work together.

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28/11/2025

🥳 Celebrate with us! Beautiful Soul is celebrating our 15 year anniversary. We have gathered meaningful insights from our work with UNICEF, WFP, Tostan, Oréal, World Vision, and many more. We are sharing 365 days of stories, photos, videos, and memories with you.

🥳 Celebrate with us!
👉 https://pi314.eu/bsoul

I first met Patricia, the Founder of Beautiful Soul in 2013, and I have had the privilege of collaborating with Beautiful Soul here in Senegal for the past five years.

Beautiful Soul remains one of the most inspiring organizations I know, driven by a powerful mission to activate and nurture the potential within people, teams, and the organizations they serve.

With so many changes happening in the humanitarian and international funding landscape, Beautiful Soul is at the forefront—helping clients navigate transitions, including most recently USAID with emotional and career-transition support.

If your organization needs expert support in navigating change, strengthening communication, or building stronger teams… reach out!

✨Did you know that alongside my work with Beautiful Soul, I also run an international life coaching business working with English and French with clients across the world? DM to explore how I can accompany you to gain clarity and direction in your life!

25/11/2025

It is so rewarding to know my work is making a difference. I just received this testimonial from Jenny Wagner, who I accompanied with coaching sessions during a major life transition. I feel honoured to receive such appreciation from such an experienced, insightful and impactful coach and educator that she is! 🙏

“When I accepted a new job in the US, our family moved from the familiar shores of Dakar to central New Jersey, a place I had never imagined living. With only four months to prepare, I knew I needed intentional support.

Catherine was exactly who I needed in the moment. She listened to me. She challenged me. She held me accountable, and sometimes just gently held space for me to feel the feelings that I was doing everything in my power to ignore. Her intuition, softness, and somatic awareness accompanied us every step of the way, and her holistic approach resonated deeply with me. Catherine held space for me to really digest the changes I was going through, and to design actions that I would carry with me across the Atlantic ocean as a supportive resource in the next chapter of my life.”

Big life changes can feel chaotic. With the right support, they become conscious, embodied, and deeply transformative.

✨DM to explore how I can accompany you through any life transitions you are going through!

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21/11/2025

Over the last 10 years I have been following my passion to accompany people to live with greater peace, ease and joy through coaching, expressive arts and yoga.

One Singing Heart is my website where you can find out more about the work I am doing in the world. Sign up to my newsletter and receive a free relaxation gift: www.onesingingheart.com!

✨ What do I offer? A non-judgemental space for clients to be truly seen and heard and take practical steps towards unblocking fears and creating the life of their dreams.

✨ What is my approach? The foundation is my open, warm-hearted presence. I then coach using a variety of tools bringing in the arts, breathwork and movement as entry points for expression, understanding and growth.

✨ Who is this for? Anyone - individuals, couples or organisations - who want to make a change in their lives and are ready and committed to explore, learn and take action.

✨ Where do I work? Online, globally, from wherever you are in the world or in person from my home base in Senegal. Sessions are in English or French.

✨ What is the investment? I offer a sliding scale. Let's discuss to find something that works for us both. You start with a commitment of 3 sessions. Payments are made in advance.

✨ What are my credentials? I am a Transformative Coach, accredited by the International Coach Federation, with a specialisation in Expressive Arts.

✨ I can see other types of projects on your website. What are these about? Everything I do is aimed at creating a happier and more peaceful world. Alongside my coaching client practice I work with different structures to accompany a range of clients: organisations; international youth; and underserved populations. Read more about this on my website or get in touch to see how you can get involved!

Get in touch if any of this resonates for you, or if you would just like to say hello, I would love to hear from you! 😊

With love, Catherine

Ps any guesses what this hat is? Share your comments in the chat!

Photo credit: Cheikh Thiam

10/04/2025

I read an article this week about 'toxic empathy'.....My reaction is this: In a world where even the notion of empathy is being questioned, it feels more vital than ever to stand in solidarity with one another from whatever places of privilege that we have.

As part of a powerful project offering therapeutic, arts-based support to underserved communities in Senegal, I was reminded—again—of the deep capacity of the arts to foster expression, connection, and healing.

I felt the power of presence: my own, as participants were able to be real and release some of the burdens in their hearts; and the group’s, as they witnessed each other with care and compassion. That collective witnessing—the simple act of being seen, and reminded that we are not alone—can be profoundly healing.

It is hard to measure the true impact of being truly listened to, perhaps for the first time. To be held by a community with kindness. To cry, and not be judged. We received so many moving testimonials. Here is one of many that touched me:

“I loved this workshop. It allowed me to take off the mask I wear every day in front of people. It’s the first time I’ve spoken without being afraid. I felt like myself.”

That is the power of empathy. More than ever, I believe in the necessity of empathy—to ground us in our common humanity, and that despite what we may see or experience, we are all part of the same human family.

What does empathy mean to you?