Happy Beltane

Beltane (1st May) is the Celtic summer festival. A time when we enter the bright half of the year. It’s seen as a time for feasts and fairs, and travel between the worlds. A time of fertility and sexuality. The land is fertile and a time to plant seeds. Could we be planting seeds? Doing […]

My Vision Quest – 9 months on

9 months ago, I went on a Vision Quest.  A time out of your daily life “We must all follow our vision quest to discover ourselves, and to find our relationship with the world around us”. It was truly life changing.  Whilst on the solo fast you can write in a journal and every 3 […]

Be kind to yourself when working from home

I’ve been trying too hard to treat days as normal days. I work from home, so what’s changed? So much. These are not normal days. Our social contact has changed. We can no longer meet with our friends. We have to be wary of people we meet, I’m forever zigzagging across the road as I […]

Rites of Passage: Strengthening our Communities

I’m recently back from a 10-day course: Rites of Passage: Strengthening our Communities held at the Asha Centre, Forest of Dean. I should have been in Nepal and Tibet. I was going to go on retreat and enjoy time with the Nepalese people. But with no longer being able to visit Tibet, I decided to […]

A new year – a time to look back and look forward

This is not just a new year, but also a new decade. Have a think back to when we entered 2010 – how far have you come? What were you doing this time last year, and how far have you come? Did you set yourself goals and create plans for what you were going to […]

New Year Resolutions

I regularly get asked to comment on the radio, and don’t say yes to them all. But talking about new year resolutions was one I said yes too. Today I was on ‘The Wake Up Call’ with Anna Cookson on BBC Radio Kent. I’m used to the process – I’m usually on later than arranged, […]

The Benefits of Being Grounded

You can literally be grounded, by walking on earth/grass/sand. And I love to do this as much as I can. When on my Vision Quest, without food, if I felt spacey, I was told to lie tummy down on the floor, to get back in touch with me. Being grounded means being present and at […]

Thinking topic: Life and Death

I’m a host for the Cheltenham group of Meaningful Discussions. Each month we cover a different topic. This week was – Life & Death We are sent links to a number of videos, everyone watches at least one, and then we meet up, buy a drink and something to eat and I divide people into […]

How authentic do you want to be?

How authentic do you want to be? If you’ve been following my blog posts, you know I’ve been writing about my need to be true to the person I am. One of my top values is authenticity. I’ve written about bring true to ourselves at work: Be You. Also on how I want to write […]

Be you …

Talking with a friend yesterday about how easy it is to be true to ourselves and how much we need to adapt to fit in with others’ expectations. We talked about work. Trying to be the sort of person you think an employer wants is hard. We must hold back on authenticity and present an […]