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...

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...

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 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...

Today in meditation I went deeply into my own darkness, into sadness and fear and rage.  It made me remember starting out with my meditation practice, when almost every session brought with it tides of immense emotion rolling through me.  Grief, sadness, the darkness...

What if our lives our defined not by what we do but by the questions we ask ourselves?  Today I am alone.  I am alone.  In a tiny hotel room with tartan curtains and a view of the fire escape.  It is 5.30 in the morning.  And yet the first question to enter my mind is...

Yesterday I did a coaching session with a client of mine who is also a dear friend. He described himself as feeling really connected to his higher self and to God, yet somehow disconnected from life. As we explored more deeply we came across a young part of him that...

I am annoyed.  Pissed off.  Angry.  Wow, I can say that these days “I am angry”.  I’m a Mum, a wife and someone who yearns to MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.  That said in capital letters because the light inside me that yearns to burn brighter is strong and powerful...

Today I am exhausted.  My throat is sore, my glands are swollen and every part of my body is aching and tired.  I know these feelings of old.  This is a path I have travelled so many times that it has become a clear, wide track.  That pattern of go, go, go; do, do,...

I recently enrolled in an online course with Hand in Hand on Parenting by Connection. One of the key tenets of their philosophy is listening both to our children, to ourselves and to each other.