I didn’t realise how tired I was this morning until my Mind Calm Sitting. Being still in awareness, I saw how my racing thoughts, my eagerness to ‘get everything sorted,’…
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There is a blank space on this page. And here is an invitation: see if you can rest with the blankness for a while. Don’t try, don’t resist. Just see…
If you are a woman, how do you feel about your monthly cycle? Frustrated with the ups and downs, irritated by PMS? Inconvenienced by bleeding? There is another way. I’m…
Yesterday I came home from running my Mind Calm Meditation workshop to go straight into a 24 hour period of being on call for my job in the criminal justice…
This morning my alarm sounded at 5.30. I needed time to meditate before getting ready and setting off for the Mind Calm Meditation workshop I was running in Colchester. It’s…
You know those days when you get so chilled that you have to have a hot bath in the middle of the day, just to get the cold out of…
I read in one of Pema Chodron’s books recently that sometimes you have to create boundaries so that you don’t have barriers. I have been thinking about this for several…
This photo is from the ‘events’ page on my website. I use it to represent the power and beauty of a group of people. A cornfield appears to be a…
This is what I would like to be doing right now but I’m not a daytime sleeper. If I manage to fall asleep during the day, I go so deep…
We all need someone to turn to when we feel stressed, overwhelmed, sad, confused or lonely. It helps to have an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on, a…
Most people know me as quiet, calm and reserved. So, when anyone finds out a little about my taste in music, they are often surprised or even shocked. I do…
Big day for me today; I went to collect my first ever varifocal spectacles. Life was getting very complicated. I had nine pairs (yes, nine) of prescription glasses, including reading…