The end of April arrived with the shock news of my auntie’s death, and the end of May came with a funeral that was a heart-felt tribute to her life. And all around me, the lush green, the fennel and dandelion and plantain and nettles that I pick from the garden and...
Lots of people (myself included) have started to choose a word for their year, as a January ritual to set our intention for the months ahead. (Susannah Conway started it, I believe, with her ‘find your word’ course.) Last year, my word was TRUTH. And just in case...
You know how when you receive certain compliments you almost brush them off – “yeah, yeah” and yet there are certain other words that have you welling up? Well, it’s the same with what we DON’T want people to think about us. Think about it. Have you ever been called...
I’ve started asking a really specific question to women who come to me to talk about self-care. Most of us understand that there are often psychological blocks to taking care of ourselves – a fear of being seen as selfish, for example (yup, I know that one very...
Sometimes, when we start to change, it feels like everything is collapsing, crumbling around you and you think it’s going wrong. “Hang on, I thought life was supposed to get better!!” But what if we need to implode? To let collapse the old ways? If we were...
