I’d had a pretty tough couple of weeks, months in reality. I’m as resilient as the next woman and also a coach so should know about talking my talk. However, I was curious as to why I was feeling so down. Having suffered years of depression I knew the signs and thankfully recognise the signs,…
Believe me there is nothing more ageing than having a tall, blonde, beautiful, leggy 18 year old daughter. Gravity’s relentless journey has begun to take hold, What more can I say? No will in the world, no daily positive affirmation, no exercises dished out by toned Personal Trainers will help reverse the downward movement of…
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” Katherine Mansfield Is this something that comes with age? With wisdom? Or is it just me? Surely we are now of an age where we should no…
This poem by Dawna Markova speaks very powerfully to me, an anthem for midlife. How we choose to live the second half of our life is up to us. We can live it in fear of decline or we can live it with anticipation of great things to come. I will not die an unlived…
There comes a point in the evening – late afternoon some days it has to be said – when it’s time to open the fridge door, take out the chilled bottle that’s been waiting there, pour some into a glass, take a sip and sigh! Or is that just me? And then there are evenings…
How do you allow your life to spiral out of control? Do you live your life on a playground see-saw, one minute or even one day high up in the air and the next down on the ground? Or do you live on the merry-go-round, spinning ever faster and becoming more and more out of control…
So do you or don’t you? Are you someone who makes (and keeps) New Year’s Resolutions? Today is Day 4 of 2011 I wonder how many resolutions have already been broken? Don’t you just feel that these resolutions are just another way for us to beat ourselves up about not being good enough? I do,…
How much drama do you want in your life? What would your life look life if you turned the volume down a little? Do you thrive on telling stories of the chaos that runs your life or in listening to the stories people so love to tell? I like most other people could talk for…
What crazy pressures we pile on ourselves at this time of year. I don’t know about you but in the past I have felt completely run down and exhausted by Boxing Day. The fantasy Christmas we read about in magazines with gloriously dressed Christmas trees and tables groaning under a veritable feast of goodies, smiling…
I’m learning a lot in this new single life of mine. Having been off the market, so to speak, for over 20 years I’m finding the ups and downs, pros and cons of the single life a novelty and have begun to formulate my own ideas on why some people are never short of a…