Being a conscious runner
I believe that running is a way to transform our lives. Not just to lose weight. Not just to give us targets to get fired up and enter races, and go the distance with our training… But these things too. […]
conscious living
Taking a tour…
…of the spine. Have you ever had pain in your body, and felt helpless to help yourself and limited with ‘what to do’?! Have you ever googled your aches and pains to better understand what’s amiss…and what you ought to […]
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 […]
What they didn’t teach us in school
When I was 18 or 19 one of my closest friends finished our friendship. It took me a long time for the confusion, and, to be honest, it was painful for me for a long while. Over the years I’ve […]
Unearthing some truffly delights
Each year has a different energy – we can feel it. If you think back to one of your favourite years –how did it feel? Full of lots of joyful events? A big move, perhaps, and all of its excitement […]
Everyone’s got an answer for us
My training partner and I are very different characters. For a start, he’s a guy and I’m not. Secondly, he’s all over, what I call, silly-long-distances (!), and I’m into shorter-sharper blasts. So our training coincides where his short runs […]
There is no away
‘There is no away.’ It’s a phrase that’s rattled around my head for the last few months. Not least, every time I’ve opened the bin to throw something ‘away’. There is now away. Where we throw our rubbish is not […]
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?! […]
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 […]
Individual or collective?
As awareness increases of the critical state of our ‘civilisation’s’ abuse of the earth’s resources, and how we’re living our lives within it and on it, huge swathes of collective effort are unfolding. The plastic effort. Animal welfare. And these […]