Woman writing on full calendar

What plans do you have for 2022?

I wish I was a great planner, someone who had my five-year goal but I’m not. I enjoy taking each day as it comes, to a degree, and seeing where the wind blows. Read More →

What do you think of when you think of peace? Is it a desire for peace and quiet, particularly at this rather hectic time of the year! Is it taking a sip of a ‘peace’ pukka tea or a time of entering a state of neutral nothingness- when you have nowhere to go and nothing to think about… but what do we actually mean by the word peace? Maybe there are lots of other ways for peace to come into our lives… Read More →

How do you prove your self worth?

Maybe your someone who is driven by making lots of money – but does money really make you happy? Read More →

I was baking with a friend’s daughter at the weekend. She had an imaginary friend called Maisy. I started acting along and introduced my imaginary friend to hers. It got me thinking though, what if it wasn’t an act. What if imaginary friends actually existed? A person, a being from the past who we can see and engage with when we’re young but, for whatever reason, loose the ability to see as we get older. Read More →

I had a wonderful book reading session online with a School in Hampshire recently. One of the questions I was asked during this session was ‘are you famous?’ Fame, above all else seemed to be the pinnacle of many of these young children’s aspirations. I told them that they should focus on trying to find a career and occupation that they really love. How is it that as a nation we are breeding a generation of children who aspire to be famous. Read More →

‘I never have enough time’ is a common phrase we hear in our everyday lives but what, exactly, is time? It is, essentially, a construction that we, as humans, have devised to make sense of the world around us. It is an ephemeral measure of a day and how we structure what we do through it. Read More →

Music has an amazing power of recall- listening to one song can transport you back to a particular time in your life, indeed, music and songs can shape your life, they can teach you about the world around you and amazing emotions can be conveyed through a single note. Read More →

Do you ever think what you might have done differently if you had another life? Read More →

I am a creature of habit, like many of us are. I feel that lockdown has rather accelerated the habitual nature, certainly for me. I have got into my routine, albeit it fairly limited at present, and it is easy to forget that the rest of the big wide world exists sometimes. Lockdown has made many of us become fairly insular and while such a state was entered into with trepidation a year ago, it has now become the norm and the thought of venturing out of it again can feel quite a daunting prospect. Read More →

There was a lot of talk recently about going back to normal. But can we ever go back? We are different people from who we were at the beginning of the pandemic and even when things open again, we will not be living our lives the same way. Read More →