Living the Life you Love

  There are so many amazing things in my life that I can be grateful for it would take weeks to list them. Take any one of them away and I know I would be devastated. I am an extremely fortunate human being and yet still, my day-to-day life recently has been leaving me feeling empty […]

Resistance to your Art

It’s been too long, unbelievably eight months too long, since I last blogged about anything. Where did the time slip away to? How is it possible that in so many weeks and months I couldn’t sit my arse down at a computer and write something, anything?? Well, I recently read this book that pretty much […]

coffee and scribbles

The 2016 Project: my little happiness-ritual

For Christmas, one of my brothers gifted me a small beautiful book called a Five Year Memory book.  On each page is the date of every day of the month from January through December, with five mini sections in which you are meant to write one interesting memory from that date over the course of […]

It’s not always easy, it’s not always fun, but it’s always, always worth the effort!

“Inhale, raise the arms up…” I don’t want to be here – I don’t want to do any of this – I hate this bloody routine!!! “Exhale, fold forward…” Man, I just want to go for my breakfast or relax over a cup of coffee, actually pretty much anything if I could just not have […]

Gratitude

Gratitude She sits on a small, wooden chair in the hall, a silent, knowing smile on her soft face. She exudes an air of being comfortable, self-assured and confident while simultaneously gentle, accepting, respectful. Sometimes I forget she’s there, she never makes any fuss either way and I can get so busy and fretful. But […]