7 Emotional Life Hacks to Save Time and Pain

My life hacks are a bit different to some. They won’t make you into an efficiency robot, but they will save the time and energy you expend on these daily activities:
a) beating yourself up
c) ruminating on all the times you forgot to follow life hacks
d) beating yourself up, yet again

How I Developed a Daily Yoga Practice

I do yoga every morning. It wasn’t always this way. For years, I wanted to be doing yoga more frequently. I thought it would be good for me, for my stiff shoulders and neck as well as aches from an accident decades ago. I felt virtuous when I did yoga and guilty when I didn’t. I liked feeling virtuous. When my kids were … Read More

An Experiment in Positivity on Social Media

Okay so, though I am not a celebrator of New Year, I have made an intention to post only uplifting, positive, compassionate and/or healing stuff in 2017. This will not always be easy, but it matters to me that we treat people and the world with kindness and if I want others to do it, let it start with me. … Read More

New Year – Time to Celebrate or Reflect?

I might be alone in this, but New Year never seems a huge deal to me. Just because we switch the calendar from one number to another, why does that give license to burn thousands of pounds (or dollars) of fireworks? And what is the deal with getting so drunk you don’t even remember seeing those fireworks? Okay, so I’m … Read More

How To Be Your Own Friend Through Sadness And Disappointment

Be your own friend

When things are going well for us, it’s (mostly) easy enough to feel good about ourselves, and to feel compassion towards others. But when life throws us those old curveballs every other day, or several times a day, it’s not so easy. Yet that’s when we need compassion the most – both to feel it for others and to feel … Read More

How to Weather Emotional Dips and Negative Feedback

Focusing on compassion and blessing should automatically lead to feeling more gratitude and seeing the good in people, not to feeling irritable or getting into arguments. Or so I imagined. Um, no. In life, a few things are certain. We are all born; we will all sometime die. After a wave washes onto a beach, it pulls back again. Spring and summer are followed … Read More

When Someone You Love is Suffering – Be Real

A person I love works hard, against difficult odds, to achieve a goal. It doesn’t happen. This person feels disappointment. I feel it too, and regret: perhaps if I’d followed up on an idea I had months ago the odds could have been reduced, this sadness prevented. I allowed others to dissuade me, wasn’t sure. I’m still not sure, and … Read More

I am who I am because…

More and more these days, I’m not sure who I am. I don’t mean I’ve forgotten the name written on my birth certificate (not even the middle name I’d rather forget.) I even (usually) manage to remember that I have another name for the Health Services – the same surname as my husband and kids, which I never use for anything … Read More