It’s true. Ever since I can remember I have been a water baby. They had to drag me from swimming pools and beaches and it was all I was really ever interested in doing as a kid. Friends with swimming pools in their backyards became my best friends…I’m sure I was really annoying! But I …
I’ve been being a hermit these last couple of months. No writing and no social media (ok, a few peeks at what’s happen over there, but no interaction). I’ve needed to step away from things and try to be with myself, let a few things shift and settle. And the main thing that is shifting …
Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay ‘Mummy?’ It was Benjamin calling out to me early one morning this week, ‘Ya? I’m here, in my room.’ I could then hear him shuffling and moving in his bed, shortly followed by his baby elephant stomping on the landing and into our room. He’d had a nightmare, I could see it …
‘I’m doing a bad drawing’ said the boy ‘Are you enjoying it?’ asked the mole ‘Yes’ replied the boy ‘Then it is a good drawing’ – Charlie Mackesy In these uncertain times, chaos, fosters creativity. Everyday there is potential for life to be something new. Being thrown into homeschooling has taught me that! That newness …
Awhile back I mentioned on my Instagram page that I had participated in a Family Constellations workshop and that it had effected me in a profound way. Somehow, it shifted something within me about my miscarriages, the loss of Luna and how they’ve shaped on my motherhood. I haven’t written further about it, because what …
Sllllllooooooooooooow down. Just stop. Listen. It’s not easy, I know, but our lives depend on it…and not just because of a virus. Two years ago, almost to the day, I had back surgery. I had debilitating sciatica. It had originally been brought on by doing one of those mum and baby exercise classes where you …
I find myself missing my parents a lot right now. There’s something about a crisis that heightens the feelings of their loss in my life. I’m craving the sound of their reassuring voices, especially my dad’s. I feel slightly adrift, but it’s a familiar feeling that’s always there, somewhere inside me. If I sit quietly …
I’ve been finding it difficult to find the words to write lately. There seems to be so much content out there, so many people writing about what is going on and how to get through it. I’m finding it difficult to describe what I’m feeling, or maybe it’s just too overwhelming? Could be. I’m going …
We had another big death discussion a couple of weeks ago and it got me thinking about the things that Benjamin has asked or said about death over the last 3 years and how his understanding is growing and changing. I thought it may be helpful to others to see what sorts of things he …
“Fear and Love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want. By choosing Love more consistently than Fear, we can change the nature and quality of our relationships.” – Gerald G. Jampolsky I’ve been giving away pieces of my heart last week, …