This week, I am going to share some of the life changing lessons I have gained from my experience of relapsing so severely and life with a chronic illness for the second time. Going through something so profound, where your world literally crumbles around you, gives you no choice but to dig... View Article
Honouring the Darkness We hear so much about ‘thinking positively’ and as any of you who know me will agree, so much of what I share here is generally quite positive. Visualising positive outcomes, thinking lovely thoughts and making the best out of each day plays a huge part in... View Article
‘How are you?’ That short little question can sometimes be such a loaded one for me. It’s a sentence that we often use in everyday conversation, but it is one that so many of us struggle to answer honestly. As a society, we are so uncomfortable with pain (other peoples and our... View Article
How often do you allow yourself to feel? Actually allow your emotions to be there. All of them. Feeling them and moving through them. Expressing them. Always? Never? For so many of us, we push emotions down or away. We reject ones that feel ‘bad’ such as anxiety, anger or frustration.... View Article
As a society, we like things that are perfectly packaged – even healing/recovery stories or various stories of real life trials and tribulations. When you read these stories, you’ll often find that they (or us as a reader!) skip through the painful parts fairly swiftly, focusing on the neatly packaged... View Article
I’m going to let you in on a secret. Despite the external version that many people portray to the world, behind closed doors, I think each and every one of us have periods of our life where we find things really bloody tough. It took me a long time to learn... View Article