Lift You Up
Sometimes – when low or uncertain or frightened; when feeling stuck or disappointed or weary – I can find relief in the natural world. I took the photo above while on personal retreat a few months ago, near Lochinver in Read More
Relationship healing and recovery
Sometimes – when low or uncertain or frightened; when feeling stuck or disappointed or weary – I can find relief in the natural world. I took the photo above while on personal retreat a few months ago, near Lochinver in Read More
You know The One. S/he has appeared in countless books, movies, plays, songs, poems and rose-tinted fantasies over many centuries. A particular favourite of Western culture, The One is sometimes defined as ‘your great love’. S/he’s The One who owns Read More
Separation: the journey starts When a major relationship ends, and the foundations of our life tremble, then our emotions can erupt in all sorts of ways, choices can become unclear, and we can lose any sense of purposeful living. When Read More
Over the past few days, several people have each, independently, raised me with the topic of disconnecting (Healing 2 in The Essential Healings). It’s a subtle issue so I thought it might be useful to revisit it briefly, hopefully to Read More
Once in a while I come across a piece of writing that merits repeating in an unaltered state. What follows is once such piece, which I stumbled across on the net a few days ago. It was actually written about dancing, by Read More
We seem to be living in a time of perpetual crisis. Significant upheavals of every kind seem to surround us, starting right outside our front door and spreading outwards across the globe. Economic crisis, environmental crisis, political crisis……if we attend Read More
Suddenly, there are empty spaces everywhere. Some spaces you’d hardly even noticed before. And that awful silence. The sound of absence all around. Not even an echo. Everything feels a little bit less. Your son or daughter has moved out. Read More
There’s a scene in Woody Allen’s classic comedy ‘Annie Hall’ where Alvi (Allen’s stock, self-sabotaging New York Jew) and Annie (Diane Keaton at her nervy, witty, creative best) are on a plane, agreeing to end their relationship. Alvi describes relationships Read More
Caring for an elderly relative is usually borne out of love – we care because we care. But caring can also be one of the most demanding challenges we ever face. It asks questions of us in ways that nothing else does. If Read More
Bill is 97. He lives alone in a pretty bungalow in a Lincolnshire village. Anne is 94. She lives in a care home in the city of Lincoln itself. He is all-but-blind, very deaf, uses a frame to walk short Read More