You’ve got the look*
I’m the kind of person who gets asked if I’m vegetarian. All the time. I seem to have ‘the look’ – you know the one; the vegetarian look. (Well, actually, I think that I have ‘the energy’, and this is […]
Nourishment & Healing
My life with hummus
I have a long relationship with hummus. I’m still not entirely sure of the correct spelling, some spell it hummus, others spell it houmous. And it’s curious that I haven’t got a definitive on this one, because usually I’m rather […]
Conscious consumption
As the festive period rapidly approaches, one question I’ve been asking myself in the run-up to the holidays is ‘how consciously am I consuming?’… This question clearly has two, related, but separate strands – one is about the material goods […]
Green on my mind…
Green has been on my mind for a good long while… It’s such a potent colour; and it has such beneficial ramifications for us…. It’s healing; everything about green is healing. Take the plants from the outside and give them […]
A new model of medicine
The old model of medicine says, you’re in pain? Here, take some pills. Got a sore knee? Let’s take a scan. Then off you go for surgery. Feeling sad? Let’s drug you up. Can’t sleep? Let’s knock you out. Running […]
Our brilliant breath
Where are you breathing? Where are you breathing…? Take a moment and check out where your breath resides. It’s not a facetious question either, by the way. Maybe your chest rises and falls? Maybe your ribs lift up and sink […]
Meeting our own needs
We all have base needs. Yes, we need shelter, food and water, clothing and warmth. Of course, we all require these basic things – basic nourishment. Yet there’s more…There’s another way in which we need to fuel our being…another way […]
Brave enough to be free
I talked about healing. Ingrained desires Last time I talked about letting go from the grip of an old story with which we were defining ourselves. But I said that firstly, we need to heal. But what does that mean? […]
Puppy love on the ground…
Ah, Valentine’s Day…and more importantly, a New Moon tomorrow and the Chinese New Year the following day! That’s quite a week! I talked earlier in January about the Chinese New Year perhaps being a better time to initiate all of […]
Have you ever noticed…
…that when you make a banana bread, the baked cake has fine little dark brown flakes in it? Have you ever wondered about that (especially when the pre-baked mixture almost certainly won’t have any evidence of them)?! Maybe you have, […]