THE PEAT BLOG

Author: Gillian Maddigan

June 2026

Death has come to knock for a one of my oldest friends and he embraced the timeline with a living wake tour. Getting together with friends and family with a 6 city tour of connection and remembrance. 

In spending the time with him it made me remember the death...

Author: Gillian Maddigan

August 2025

When doing a face reading or face analysis, we break down the face into its individual parts, its framework: how the bones, ligaments, muscles, and tissues come together. We examine how the features are arranged, their development and expression, how the left...

Author: Gillian Maddigan

May 2025

Sixty, A card and a Shift

I’ve just turned 60. A couple of weeks in, and it already feels different—quietly, but unmistakably. I’m not in my 50s anymore. I’ve stepped into something new, and I’m starting to think of this as my third life. Not in a dramatic way—...

Author: Gillian Maddigan

March 2025

Body language is a powerful tool that influences how your audience perceives you—either reinforcing your message or working against it. While you may have a clear verbal message, your unconscious body language—what I call body gossip—is telling its own story.

Author: Gillian Maddigan

March 2025

Understanding the Power of Non-Verbal Communication

Every time you interact with an audience and every interaction has an audience—whether on stage, on camera, or even in a one-on-one conversation—two conversations happen simultaneously. The first is what you...

Author: Gillian Maddigan

January 2025

“What is Body Image?” Perhaps the real question should be, “What is your Body Reality?” If we break it down, ‘image’ is something imagined, not yet in existence, while ‘reality’ is already present. Through the lens of Psychosomatics, body image is the manipu...

Author: Gillian Maddigan

February 2025

The accumulation of past experiences shapes our bodies and minds. Every moment of joy, pain, stress, and relief is imprinted within us, influencing how we move, think, feel, and react. The tissue of our body carries these memories, sometimes as tension or d...

Author: Gillian Maddigan

January 2025

Investing in the Same Old Story

For almost half my life, I’ve worked with people deeply invested in their stories. These weren’t just tales they told themselves; their stories were woven so tightly into their identities that it was almost impossible to sepa...

Author: Gillian Maddigan

December 2024

When I was first asked this question, it deeply intrigued me. For some time, I had been asking myself: “How did we become so disconnected from the unity of mind and body?”

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by people. Initially, I observed...

Author: Gillian Maddigan

December 2024

I’ve been mulling over the differences between identity and personality lately. As often happens when I muse, I found myself tumbling down the rabbit hole—grabbing at rising balloons of possibility, only to watch them pop, replaced by new perspectives.

Eve...

Author: Gillian Maddigan

October 2024