Courage and how to love your inner fear

Courage and how to love your inner fear

The other day I went to a wonderful local cinema; with armchair seats, tea and cake. You might be forgiven for thinking that would be an easy, pleasurable thing. In the end it was, but if you could only have listened to the dialogue in my head and the feelings in my...
The Tooth Fairy and the Nature of Reality!

The Tooth Fairy and the Nature of Reality!

My youngest daughter Lottie lost another tooth this week.  It was a moment of celebration for the family but also a lesson in how we each see life through our own individual lens.  At 8, Lottie still lives in a magical world with fairies and unicorns being just as...
The Quiet After The Storm

The Quiet After The Storm

Today is a back to school day.  After a long, wonderful, challenging and life affirming summer I am once again able to sit at my desk with the house breathing a long quiet sigh around me.  I have an opportunity now to focus on my own needs as well as those of the...
The Edge

The Edge

I am on Iona.  It feels like the end of the known world.  The beginning of the unknown.  What is the risk we take when we take those first tentative steps from the known into the unknown?  What does it take for us to remove the masks which we believe to be whom we are...
The Language of the Heart

The Language of the Heart

The language of the heart speaks softly, like a whisper in your ear.  It can be the soft caress of a warm wind on your skin or the sound of birdsong on the wind.  We can only hear it when we are still and quiet enough to tune in.  When we are open to finding meaning...