If you have your health, you have one of the biggest treasures there is
I have spent the last 2 months lost down a rabbit hole of illness after one or two nasty viruses (probably Covid and then flu) gave me a nasty case of usual antibiotics resistant pneumonia which was hiding from the usual tests so went untreated for weeks leaving me...
Man Flu- could women learn to suffer from it too?
As I sit here snuffling with some sort of virus (no, it’s not covid), I’ve been in indulging in some sick bed reflection. Now when I get sick, I’m unable to continue with daily life as if I’m not. I watch everyone else carrying on when ill as if they’re not, sounding...
Your Place in the World
When culture does not nourish you the Soul’s food can only be gotten by standing apart away from at the edge of the forest, solitary when the sense of Belonging, that arises from kinship with the world around you, crumbles when the places and faces you find yourself...
Permission
You have permission to inhabit your own life. To say no To say yes. To inhabit your own knowing Your own body, And all you allow or do not allow within it. To love who you love. To feel. To inhabit anger, contentment, joy. And heavy sorrow. To be full of strength, and...
Ways to get some rest with children at home
We are now several weeks into the summer holidays in the UK and you may now be pulling your hair out after having children at home 24/7 for that long. Or perhaps this is now a doddle after so many months of lockdown and children at home! I myself struggle with the...
The Unfair Impact of Covid on Women
You only have to put ‘impact of COVID-19 on women’ into google for it to come up with endless articles and research and surveys showing how the pandemic has unfairly impacted women. According to Laura Turquet of UN Women, globally only 8% of all the social protection...
Reducing the Stress of Homeschooling
One of the things that parents dread most about lockdown, is the prospect of home schooling their kids for the next however many months. If you’re trying to homeschool and work at the same time, you have your work cut out even more. The amount of stressing that I see...
Savor the taste of slow
With news of another lockdown, we’re all feeling a bit fed up, frustrated, and deflated. Especially those of us with kids who once again take on the task of home schooling. For me this means two children at home 24/7 as a single parent and it would seem, harassment by...