And then it all came crashing down! After my blissful Christmas period, the past couple of weeks have been challenging. I’ve been unwell with a strange virus that left me dizzy and deeply lethargic, while my children were away on holidays. In that quiet, slowed-down space, familiar emotional patterns surfaced—self-judgment, frustration, and the desire for […]

Over the New Year period a friend of mine shared a practice she has seen on social media. The practice involved writing 13 intentions on paper, folding them and placing them into a container and randomly pulling one each day to burn. On January 2nd, one intention would remain and that would be your intention […]

I have recently been experiencing an ongoing depressive episode. It has been challenging in many ways. For me, this time, depression manifested as a bombardment of relentless negative thoughts, rolling through my mind from constant self degradation to fear and anxiety about a terminal cancer diagnosis from every ache and pain I was experiencing in […]

I woke with a migraine. It’s only been two weeks since the last one. I was annoyed as it did not ‘fit’ with my plan for the day. It especially did not fit into my work schedule for the day or the busy life I generally like to lead! I took some pills and went […]

Last night I had dinner with my ex-husband of 4 years and my three sons who are nearly 18, 15 and nearly 12. I say nearly to highlight the fact that we were having an informal dinner to present my nearly 18 year old son with his birthday gift a few days early.  It all […]

It was a normal Wednesday morning. I had a huge pile of washing to get through. The previous few days had been raining nonstop, but that day was bright and cold. I’d put on a load of washing but the machine stopped with an error message about halfway through. “For Fuck’s Sake!!” I thought, “I […]