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 […]
conscious living
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 […]
Give yourself 24 hours
“If I’ve got a big decision to make, I respond by saying ‘give myself 24 hours to think about it.’” A sound idea I was once told. There’s a balance isn’t there, between action: ‘stop procrastinating, and get. it. done.!’, […]
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 […]