This morning after walking my son half-way to school I did some shopping and decided to treat myself. Just because. Just because I never give myself enough credit for the huge challenges I face. Just because it’s been a tough two weeks and it’s been a roller coaster of emotions. Just because I deserve to…
As my son grows older and more independent, I’m struck by the painful realisation that the world out there isn’t always kind. In fact, it is very often not. A lesson I don’t want him to learn, yet he has to and he will. I find so much kindness here, on this blog, from people…
I need to keep reminding myself that the place, this very place and point in time, is where I was always meant to be. It’s not an accident. My son has just started high school and it’s been an incredibly emotional journey for us both. He holds all his feelings in and then, in the…
A sad feeling creeping up from my stomach; the seat of so many emotions. A palpable yet elusive sense that something is amiss and off-centre. And when I look more closely it’s made up of a cocktail of anxiety, sadness, fear maybe a bit of disappointment splashed in. All the uncertainties around my work situation,…
Have just returned from a trip to Athens where I was steeped in history and have been reflecting on the importance of the past in relation to the present and the future. What better time to do so than the moment you are standing with both feet firmly in a brand new year full of…
This hasn’t been an easy year by any stretch of the imagination. As I lay curled up in bed with the flu, I am finally listening to my body. My body is saying, ‘Stop, no more!’ and I am finally listening. If you told me of a woman who teaches 6 hours a day in…
I remember how my first counsellor tried to gently show me how so much of my life had been dedicated to pushing myself really hard to be perfect. To work hard, get the best grades, grab all the opportunities that came along, push to be better and better. She implied that I was pushing so…
Imagine your inner child waking up to a message that your soul has ached for. My mother usually sends me a weekly text message. This is the extent of her mothering and our relationship. I haven’t seen her in years nor spoken to her on the phone. Today, along with her perfunctory message which always…
Am at home this week for the start of the school holidays and I feel like I have returned home to myself. It’s been a crazy few weeks with huge challenges both at work and home and at times it felt like there was no respite. But today, the quiet outside and inside , like…
I am most beautiful in the most hurt places. I took the day off today because I needed to. Have been feeling so much anguish recently. If only we lived in a world where it’d be ok to phone in and say to your boss, ‘I can’t come in this morning because I have terrible…
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