I feel, sometimes, like September is a little bit like the beginning of a new period. Almost like the start of a new year, or the turning over of a new leaf. And here on the south coast the weather has dropped a little and...
I hope you are lapping up the beautiful weather today. As I write I can feel the warm sun on my arms, filling me with a sense of optimism and joy. As we're emerging (kind of!) out of lockdown in the UK I know for...
Last week I didn't send out a blog post. It got to Friday afternoon and after working my way through a number of different tasks I felt exhausted and without ideas for content to share with you. And so I took a step back and...
Happy Friday! As you know every week I write this blog in order to offer a little pause for thought and reflection. The blog is ever so useful for me too, it offers me the chance to gather up thoughts I've been having over the week...
This week has been a strange one for me. I've experienced a bit of a change in circumstance which has involved some loss. It's been uniquely hard, given that it has taken place within this bizarre pandemic. That emotional rollercoaster has been particularly dramatic for...
It can be easy to get stuck in overwhelm. We can spend our whole day feeling like we've got a never ending to-do list and working hard to keep all the plates spinning. Sometimes we get to the end of the week and we feel...
Throughout the pandemic I have been working on surrendering to the experience, and trying to stay present and be self-caring from one day to the next. I have not always succeeded at this for sure, I am still very much learning. More recently I realised one...
Every so often Baz Lurhman's 'Sunscreen' comes on the radio and I have to stop everything I am doing, turn up the volume and feel the joy of the song. I love what he says about advice: 'Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient with...
For today's blog I wanted to share a poem, I tapped 'poems on resilience' into google for some inspiration, and immediately my eyes were drawn to an incredible piece that I'd been introduced to back when I was working in the not-for-profit sector. We had been...
One of my values is aliveness. I love experiencing new things, people and places. For me it's what life is about and when lockdown began I became aware pretty quickly that I'd have to re-evaluate my approach to this value in order to keep honouring...