‘Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are’ - how much does our past shape our present or our future? …
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I’m here in Wales in a place that holds so many happy memories for me. My family holidayed in this small fishing village every year in May...
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If you felt ill would you tell someone? Had a pain or a strange ache? We so often regard our mental health differently to our physical health, but thankfully the conversation is finally changing…
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I’ve been doing a mindfulness challenge for the past few days. Recently I had noticed that I was spending so much time planning for the future that it was sparking my anxiety more than I would like, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity…
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I had the most brilliant call this morning with my mentor and it’s brought me back into my body. Sometimes I get so in my head, through excitement, fear, planning, passion, anger, inspiration...
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An interesting question arose recently in an internet group that I had just joined. We were asked to introduce ourselves and I had written about the periods when I have some anxiety and that they are usually attached to my people-pleasing patterns raising their head…
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I have a slight addiction to leopard print at the moment - my most recent addition to the leopard pack in my closet were these babies, highly reduced in the sales... I can now dress head to toe in leopard print, complete with scarf! I’ve always loved texture, a look, a feel, the suggestion of something beneath the surface. A layering of sorts…
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This week really felt like the start of spring. It’s been a long hard winter for many of us but we all must remember that without the winter we wouldn’t appreciate the spring; without the dark we wouldn’t appreciate the light. The shades of life are what makes it so engaging...
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This street name always makes me chuckle, but as I parked my car here today it struck a chord with me... It’s the 5th anniversary of my wedding day and parking in The Wilderness made me think back to my separation and how I cast myself into my own wilderness by choosing a different life.
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I know you've been that person, sat in a meeting/job interview/on a date and thought to yourself, "I really have no idea what I am doing! And now this is it... they are going to find me out; that I have no idea what is going on!"...
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My mum's suicide when I was 26 threw my world into total disarray. Without her I was lost, set adrift on a wild and savage sea of indecision and pain. The impact of her death was manifold, grief for her loss and the subsequent loss of my grandfather (her father) shortly afterwards... but there also became a secondary tier to the loss...
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Freedom from codependency has been the biggest piece of my own personal development journey. Some years ago, my coach gently but firmly pointed me in the direction of book that changed my life; "Codependent No More" by Melody Beattie blew me away...
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