Third Culture Kids & Hidden Loss

I know I’m lucky. I know I’ve had a very privileged life, full of wonderful experiences. In fact, I sometimes describe myself as a collector of experiences, like others collect precious gems. But I have collected one experience along the way that weighs...

Becoming your own best friend

I’ve not blogged for a while now (read: ages!) and that is largely due to being busy with lots of exciting things, and simply not taking the time to sit and write some of it down! I want to share a concept I’ve been playing with recently – hopefully...

Your Story Makes Sense

One of the most painful things I’ve felt myself, and heard expressed to me, is the feeling that “I’m crazy”, “I shouldn’t be feeling this way” or “I don’t make sense”. To feel you are incomprehensible,...

Three Ways to Bloom in Place

I’ve had the opportunity this week to do one of my favourite things; tidy up the garden. I noticed how much my spirits lifted with the presence of dirt under my fingernails, and a sense of mastery over mess. What is it about digging about in dirt, and tidying up...

Longing for the Life We Don’t Have

Do you find yourself easily overwhelmed? Are you teetering on the edge of ‘holding it all together’ and ‘fitting it all in’, all the while remaining painfully aware that one more demand, one moreĀ  ‘good idea’, and the whole thing...

Chronic Pain & Medication

How do you manage your pain? Meditation, counselling, pacing, massage, physiotherapy, exercise… medication? We often seem to flinch at long term medication, reacting to it as a necessary evil. And it’s certainly true that popping a few pills to ‘take...