Hello! I haven’t forgotten about you but to say I have over committed in August would be an understatement and I am just coming out of the pointy end now. August has kicked my arse like a mother fucker. But I think anything is bearable if there is an end date, so as I limp …
What’s happening? Well… I watched a video about a young mum who was diagnosed with post natal depression and was afraid of germs and microbes. Part of her therapy was a slow breaking down of these beliefs and exposure until one day, the therapist, who was an avid gardener brought in some home made compost …
Hello Lovely, What a busy time we have been having. I always think the weeks will ease and they seem to stay the same, with the level of commitments and tasks and errands to run every day. I thought of you when I was out and about on Saturday morning. I had a long list …
I have over 50 plants in my house but apparently that’s not enough. According to studies, you need 10 plants per 5 x 4 room to get optimum wellness benefits from them. These benefits include: Lower blood pressure Improvement in mood Cleaning the air of cancer causing compounds According to research from Harvard University, women …
When I had children, I wanted them to understand magic. I wanted them to have their childhood interspersed with rhymes and symbolism and possibility. One of my earliest memories is one of my grandmother’s holding cowslip under my chin to see if there was a yellow reflection. Apparently, if there was such a reflection, it …
The idea of freelancing as a writer is good in theory. You can do writing work and write your novel but the reality for me was quite different. To make the money required for living, I had to do good quality jobs with clients who were prepared to pay good amounts of money and it …
I started therapy when I was 26 years old with a baby who was born dead and bought back to life with a broken wing. She had had two operations by the time I started therapy. One of them went for 12 hours and I went home and slept because I didn’t really know what …
I have been doing a lot of work around the enneagram lately. It has been an incredibly insightful too for understanding myself and why I do or don’t do things. Growing up, we learn to cope with the emotional wounds we receive in childhood. In order to protect us from pain, we “place a mask …
Hello Friend, I have been thinking of you but I haven’t written because I thought it would be best if you consolidated what you have been learning lately. I see you have been responding to my Positive Challenge on Facebook and Instagram. It is hard sometimes not to default to the drama and the negative …
May kicked my arse with jobs and commitments and then I became ill and so did my son and all bets were off. My house was like it had been ransacked and found wanting, and I kept putting off the deep clean it needed. In despair, I went onto a Facebook group called Mum’s Who …