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My inspiration this weekend is Mary Oliver’s The Journey. Wishing you a weekend enlivened and uplifted by your own journeying. One day...

Sometimes there are no words. Awful things happen to those we love and we simply do not know what to do or say. This can be a very...

There is a truth I learned way back in my training that has stuck with me and I wanted to reflect on today. It is the reflection that if...

“Introversion is not something you fix via extroversion. You fix it by seeing it as something not to be fixed. Let introversion exist. ...

I remember coming across the idea of your heart smiling in Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat, Pray, Love, at the time it really lit me up. ...

I had an interesting insight the other day as I spotted an old pattern that had popped up and taken root unnoticed. Sitting with a...

"We all need freedom and security, which is why when the world doesn’t feel safe, we often don’t feel as free." Esther Perel At first...

“Don’t fear the dark: it's a natural part of the journey. The most beautiful butterflies emerge from the darkness of the cocoon; the...

Take time to see the sky, find shapes in the clouds, hear the murmur of the breeze and touch the cool water. Walk softly and peace will...

Now we're into September, families country-wide will be back into the rhythm of school and working weeks after the different pace of the...

I love meditating in company, I experience such a resonance in the collective energy, just remembering brings tingles and smiles. Here’s...

Here’s a poetic offering for the weekend, about the insights that can come from therapeutic work and the way just one revelation...

I watched Hannah Gadesby’s show Douglas recently, and along with the many, many laughs she provoked, she spoke of a truth that resonated...

“Be humble because you are made of earth Be noble, for you are made of stars" Serbian Proverb As above, so below. I love this proverb...

When I planted my new garden last year, I put a row of floribunda rose bushes along the back fence, anticipating by this year I would be...

look at you. still standing after being knocked down and thrown out. look at you. still growing after being picked and plucked and...

I popped into my kids school this week to talk to the Early Years and Key Stage 1 children about Spiritual Practice and Meditation. We...

“Healing does not mean wallowing in or identifying with injury. Nor does it mean defensive inaction. It means having the courage to...

Out walking a few weeks ago at Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire, my companion wished the trees could tell us the stories of all they...

I have a gnarled old piece of wood that sits on my desk in my therapy room. I picked it up years ago in some woodland near Durham, I...