What great impact a small act of kindness can have

By Peter Chiricosta

We worked together to move beyond our triggers, past behaviours and share a beautiful weekend of human connection, growth and adding value to each other’s lives.

WHAT IF DATING WAS MORE FREE FLOW AND OPEN TO ALL POSSIBILITIES, INTERACTING AS HUMANS AND LACKED PRE DETERMINED EXPECTATION? WHAT IF WE MOVED AWAY FROM THE ‘I WANT’ AND FOCUS ON HOW DATING CAN BE A MUTUAL GROWTH OPPORTUNITY.

I recently met a woman through a dating app. Let’s call her Stacy. A vibrant, driven woman, with a powerful entrepreneurial spirit. Apart from our common interests and life goals, I loved how honest Stacy was about dipping her toes back into dating and wanting to take things slow, getting to know each other before becoming physically intimate. A rare approach today. I was also coming through a rough patch and going slow suited us both.

While dating Stacy there were wonderful, deep conversations and (non sexual) intimate moments of holding each other in a caring embrace. There was also an awkward contrast at times, that had us both asking “Why am I triggered by this person? What is the lesson in this? Are they interested?”

Through all of this, Stacy, a camping enthusiast, invited me away for my first camping trip. To connect with nature and each other. I thought “How lovely, this could be a great new experience... yet with one tent & one mattress, are things progressing or is this going to get weird and end up with me stranded in the wilderness? It’s a risk but...LET’S DO IT!”

Read the complete article in the new issue of Mumpreneur Movement Magazine: From Imposter To Influencer.

Peter Chiricosta

Hi I’m Pete, an Integrated Health & Performance Coach from the Sunshine Coast. For over 10years I’ve been evolving my study and practice with various modalities in the health and wellbeing industry. Beginning with Remedial Therapy, Chinese Massage and Sports Training and later adding other modalities such as Iridology, Executive State Identification and Horstmann Technique, a trauma release therapy through subtle body work.

My studies and passion for helping clients develop themselves personally and physically, grew from my own struggle of childhood health issues. Throughout the years I was determined to find answers on how I could change my body, mind and life for a better future. I steadily went from being a sick kid to an elite athlete, an angry boy who struggled to find his place in the world, to a happy, open and loving man. It wasn’t easy or fast but this journey fuels my passion to help others find their path, clear misconceptions of health & fitness, break through personal barriers and thrive in a life by design, not one lived by default.