Hello beautiful,To be human is to have our heart hurt in multiple ways over our lifetime. The obvious heartbreaks of losing a loved one or experiencing injustice. To the more subtle ones, like the ache of the heart as our child leaves home, the hurt we feel when we sense we don’t belong, the heart-sting […]
Hello beautiful people,How are you today? This morning I woke up with the sensation of fear gripping my heart. An urgent, unpleasant sensation that something was terribly wrong. My first instinct was to get up and start ‘doing something about it.’ My fear usually wants to either run away and hide from everything or it wants to do […]
Hello beautiful,When I get a whiff of feeling unworthy, I feel like my body deflates and I become like a piece of dirty tattered material on the floor.I feel like someone who is not only totally undeserving, but also to blame for my undeservingness. And it feels both breathtakingly awful, but also incredibly familiar and […]
Hello beautiful,Yesterday I was talking to a friend and we stumbled onto a subject that brought up a lot of feelings for me. And I thought to myself – oh wow! These feelings are still hanging out, I wonder why?It was related to a several-months’ long experience that had happened earlier this year where I […]
Hello lovely people,How are you doing today? When someone we are with is in the depths of some emotions, what do we do? How can we navigate tricky emotional explosions? How do we support our loved ones? I’m going to share some short and simple ideas that are important when someone we are with is in the […]
Hello beautiful people, How are you today? This morning I woke early when it was still dark, enjoying the fresh morning air as I got my day ready. Making breakfast and packed lunches. Organising work things for the week. And then I left for a long walk and a swim. As I walked up a […]
Hello beautiful people, A few years ago I wrote a piece about how for over a decade I was stuck in a frozen world of Grief in the days before the holidays and all the way through it. How the whole period was wrapped in a blanket of bleakness, and the days were riddled with […]
Hello Beautiful, Happy New Year beautiful one. How are you? One of the challenges we often face on our emotional healing journey is that we survey the world with adult eyes, but often within a body that contains much unhealed emotional pain from childhood. With our adult eyes we wonder why we still get upset […]
Sometimes I think I don’t have time
Hey beautiful folks, How are you doing? How is life with you? I am an even mix of English and Irish, so Thanksgiving isn’t something I knew much about until I moved to California 27 years ago. It was there that I met my American husband, and after a few years we moved back to […]
Hello beautiful people, How are you? This morning I woke up and I felt scared. What are you scared of love? I ask myself. That I am not really good enough. I am just a pretty useless human being. I am not going anywhere or doing anything valuable. Oh yikes, I say, that sounds like […]
Hello beautiful people, For a long, long, long time my life was one long story of overwhelm. And it was reflected in the choices I made – the short term fixes, the holding my breath, the ‘it’ll be ok soon’, the urgent pushing/doing, the sensations of just ‘hold on until it gets better’. I am […]
Hello beautiful people, A few weeks ago, after arriving in London, my husband’s glasses were stolen at the gym. With his spare glasses in a box somewhere in a cupboard in our apartment in Spain, our only option was new glasses. A few mishaps with prescriptions followed, and so it took over 2 weeks to […]
What procrastination and overwhelm really need How are you today? Productivity experts say to break big tasks into little pieces. Work the 25 minute pomodoro method! But what if you can’t even get yourself to sit down and do the task? What if you are an expert in avoidance mode? What if breaking it down […]
Hello lovely people, How are you today? I wanted to share a few thoughts with you about approaching the movement we need for shifting, changing and making significant steps in the journey we are on with ourselves. Change doesn’t always feel good. In fact it can feel scary and impossible, we can feel intense aversion […]