This isn’t a post about astrophysics or even about the still silent space inside you. It’s about my favourite film. Today on the blogging challenge we are invited to write…
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In March, I spent two weeks travelling through Singapore and Malaysia, where I used to live as a teenager. I took my 18 year old son with me to learn…
Today, Spiritual Badass bloggers are invited to share a story. Something from our childhood or something more recent that has affected us. I love this topic because I feel story…
Today one of our topics is our favourite quote. I read so much and I am always changing and growing so my favourite anything also changes frequently, but at the…
One of the topics in our Spiritual Badass blog challenge today is: ‘What you would tell your younger self?’ I let this roll around in my mind for a bit…
Today our topic is perfectionism. Or thereabouts. Oh dear, perfectionism, what a trial that used to be! I allowed perfectionism, and its attendant functions of fear of failure, procrastination and…
Up to now, I have been an ‘off topic blogger’ in the Spiritual Badass blogging challenge. We get suggested topics each day but we can pick our own subject if…
We all know that decisions can change the course of our lives, and that sometimes we have to make brave decisions. I have been reflecting recently on a big decision…
Onwards and upwards with thinking less and being present. Knowing that my mind was very busy and this was causing stress and even physical ill health, I started to learn…
I was a serious child who grew up to be a serious woman. I used to think that serious was good and everything else was frivolous and a waste of…
When I was first a full-time bluestocking, reading English at Cambridge University, I had no idea about looking after myself. I had all the trappings – bike, books, cigarettes, bottle…
One of the most important things to know about thinking is that it takes us away from the here and now. Always. As my meditation teacher Sandy Newbigging says, the…