The Pain Collection
The body is a messenger The body is a messenger. Our body tells us exactly what is and isn’t going well! (You may have noticed – especially if you’re a runner!) It often uses pain as its means for delivering […]
The Body-Mind Interconnection
A different perspective
Depression is disconnect. From a whole lot of things. From nourishing, wholesome, real and living, fresh food. From exercise, from moving and stretching and freeing our tension, and from deep replenishing sleep. It’s a disconnect from nature, from nurturing community […]
In love with the chores
There are two chores that I actually really really enjoy! Here’s why they’re so beneficial for a creative life – And we all live a creative life, by the way! We might not paint, draw, knit or write poetry, but […]
How’s your motivation holding up?
How’s your motivation? Are you still feeling fresh as a spring chicken, or are you starting to flag..? Is the long haul from the summer to the winter break now starting to take its toll? Or maybe that’s just me?! […]
Everything is temporary
I have an adage which I use variously. Actually it’s a little mind-trick, and it’s called ‘everything is temporary’. That physical ail – it’s temporary; it’ll ease, it’ll resolve, it’ll pass. That bad mood – it’s temporary; it’ll blow over, […]
What reconnects you to yourself?
Stress. Stress disconnects us from ourselves. Grey, detached and unrecognisable It takes a normally effervescent, smiley, fun person & sucks their life force out of them. Quite literally too – as the breath shallows to a barely re-energising, apathetic exchange […]
Talking surfing
I’ve been talking about surfing a lot recently. More talking than actually doing though, to be honest…sorry if that disappoints! I’ve been talking about the powerful connection with nature at its most raw…in that moment when you catch a wave. […]
The feel of September
In some places around the world, the school year starts in January. But there’s a feel in the air when September starts, which is more than just about the kids going back to school. The summer heat has seared its […]
Constricted energy
A picture keeps coming to me. It’s an image of all the people in the world – all the individuals who are here. It’s not actually an image of our physical selves, it’s a snapshot of our energy. I keep […]
That there rug under your feet
Have you ever had the proverbial rug pulled from underneath your feet? And I mean, wholly and categorically whipped from under you? When something happens and you end up feeling totally and utterly emotionally depleted and all-round empty, and well, […]