The starting point of getting everything you want: YOU Welcome back! How do you feel about yourself? I’ve had an interesting month, re-evaluating what success means to me and what quality of life looks like. More on that and “soul-full goals” next month… I get asked regularly how I have got through all the many difficult things…
Something I will always remember: a freezing cold November day in Reading train station, on route home from Borneo to my grandfather’s funeral. I couldn’t feel my hands or feet, but there was comfort in that discomfort. Better to concentrate on the hurt in them than the unbearable loss in my heart. Something broke…
When we meet new people, it is not long before the usual questions are asked, “Where do you live? Marriage? Children?” and yes the old faithful “What do you for a living?” I’m a Counsellor. Out of all the jobs I’ve done, including in Child Protection, this is the one label that attracts the most…
The small things… the smell of freshly brewed coffee, a bath with candles, a sunset, a smile from a stranger, a belly laugh with friends, a hot day and submerging yourself in the ocean, kicking your shoes off and walking bare feet on grass, that feeling when you wake up and realise that you don’t…
Previously I was never really that interested in learning about my ancestry; feeling that was then and this is now and that was them and this is me. They had outside toilets, heated water on a fire and bathed in tin baths. To me that had nothing to do with my laptop and central heating existence.…