“I think I am finally a zen master! Or at least, something monumental has shifted, and I’m loving the possibility that it opens within me, because even if the inner calm is gone in another hour, I know it is a place that I can inhabit.” Driving back from my yoga class last night, I […]

I’ve been in a procrastination rut; overthinking things. I’ve been trying to be perfect again and it’s just making me stagnate. I’ve seen it happening and yet I’ve been feeling this way for weeks; frustrated because I’m not doing the things I want to. It’s so ridiculous because once again I am the only thing […]

“In this, my old corner of the world, I am oddly safer than out there. Here, I know I am disgusting and pointless.” I’ve crept back into pain and suffering. Slowly, I’ve crawled back into this familiar, dark, dank nook. Everything here hurts. In this place, I am cruel to myself. On repeat, I tell […]

“The old paradigm said people have one job and do one thing. Maybe the new one says ‘I do what I like and I reserve the right to multitask and change what I like at a moment’s notice without explanation’.” It’s a bit of a mouthful, but this week I have learnt that I am […]

“As I look around our world, I think ‘all or nothing thinking’ has become endemic in our society and flavours our everyday life. We are constantly driven to be one thing or another thing in a world in which ‘othering’ rather than honouring our differences is de rigueur.” I used to be a big fan […]

“The stories I have been telling myself about this decision and role have been so powerful that it’s taken me months to admit to myself what I want. My imagined narratives are wide ranging but all have a familiar whiff of not enoughness and concern for external validation.” When you start feeling feelings and not […]

“In a moment of uncharacteristic vulnerability, my husband asked me last night, “Why do you love me?”. “Well, because you are You.” I easily answered. Crest-fallen, he humphed a sad, slumped-shouldered, “Oh..”. Recognising his disappointment, I reassured him, “That’s absolutely the best thing I could have said.”.” In a moment of uncharacteristic vulnerability, my husband […]

“Growing up, women of my generation were taught that our cycles were little more than inconvenience. It was more a case of managing the problems that could arise rather than learning the power of our biology.” Without a whisper, it is back. It has crept in without ceremony yet again. It’s grip vice-like round my […]

“Even the most familiar subject can be elevated, enlightened and born again with a delicate, loving lexicon. I love exploring how other people see the world through reading and listening to them speak.” I am fascinated by words, or more accurately combinations of words and how individuals craft their sentences to share their thoughts. My […]