Dec 14, 2022 | bereavement, death, grief, my journey
In 2020, like so many people, I suffered a bereavement during the coronavirus pandemic. We had to face difficult decisions as a family around shielding and visiting, trying to get the balance right between seeing and supporting my mum in her final weeks, seeing and...
Dec 7, 2022 | family, identity, money
Christmas time can be a stretch for everyone financially with presents to buy, extra mouths to feed, decorations to buy and power, meals and parties and drinks and shiny outfits to pay for. This year though it is even worse for many people who have already been...
Nov 30, 2022 | book recommendations, Coaching, gratitude, mindfulness, tools and models, wellbeing
The best way to win me over is books. Recommend me a book, loan me a book, ask me for a recommendation, or tell me you read something I recommended and I’m yours! So when I met someone earlier this year who recommended that I read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, I...
Nov 23, 2022 | bereavement, grief, my journey, relationships
…is connection. As a very sociable person with many friends and an often exhaustingly jam packed diary, I have still experienced awful loneliness. I remember one time in particular when I was struggling and didn’t feel anyone understood or cared. I knew deep down that...
Nov 16, 2022 | career, Coaching, family, home education, identity, my journey, parenting
A year ago, I was at the end of my tether, completely burnt out and unable to find anything in my life that I could change to make things better. Following Covid, work was busier than ever, my Mum’s birthday was coming up which I knew was going to be difficult, and my...
