I haven’t really spoken much about my mental health after Luna died. I did write something else (click here) about it quite a while ago now and with everything going on lately around the world, I thought it might be worth talking about again. I have to say, I’m very reticent to put grief and …
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 …
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 …
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’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 …