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Making Memoir

by VigFebruary 23, 2023March 8, 2023 No Comments

I can’t believe I’m here, that I’ve made it this far. It’s been seven years! Seeing ā€˜The End’ at the bottom of that page, three weeks ago, […]

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AI art for writers

by VigFebruary 22, 2023March 5, 2023 No Comments

I’m having a bit too much fun playing with Artificial intelligence (AI) today. I wanted to see what it comes up with as suggestions for […]

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āThe Burning Light of Two Stars.āž

by VigFebruary 28, 2022March 1, 2023 No Comments

Meet the Author In her 2003 book, āI Thought We’d Never Speak Againāž @laurasaridavis Laura writes about how it went, when she interviewed her mother, […]

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Turning anxiety into self-awareness

by VigSeptember 10, 2021February 22, 2023 No Comments

I’m living in a turbulent time right now. Aren’t we all you might say and if you do, then you are right and I hope […]

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How to create a safe vessel to write from

by VigAugust 31, 2021March 5, 2023

I’m trying, I’m really trying to get on with revision, transcribing voice notes and rewriting, while the drilling continues upstairs. our Athens building block is […]

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Feeling Frazzled

by VigFebruary 25, 2021February 26, 2021 No Comments

I’m eating chocolate and feel lazy and fat, her message said, I hope you feel better than me.  Nop, I’m not doing any better than […]

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Hope

by VigJanuary 18, 2020February 25, 2021 4 comments

It’s re-write time and from the muddy pool of shitty drafts, a small jewel appears – at least I think it’s a jewel. I rinse […]

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Letting go of Knowing

by VigNovember 4, 2019March 5, 2023

Since last week’s blog I’ve pondered the question of wether I can truly let go of knowing, of control, of my need to be right, […]

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Connect before you React

by VigOctober 28, 2019February 26, 2021

I adapted this from Dr Shefali, who says ‘Connect before you Correct’ as a parent. I love that woman and I’m so grateful for how […]

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Not OK

by VigSeptember 13, 2019February 26, 2021

Not ok is ok Don’t be okwhen it’s not okLean into the pain in your heartwhen it breaksfor the smallest things;a mum who says ā€˜wait’ […]

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Charity – The Gift of Giving

by VigJune 19, 2019February 26, 2021

In 1910 Wallace D. Wattles wrote;  ā€œThe poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep […]

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The True North of Memoir

by VigMay 5, 2019February 26, 2021 6 comments

I didn’t realise revising my memoir would be this hard or take this long, but now I see what I’m here to learn.  As I […]

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Illness the New Normal

by VigApril 24, 2019February 26, 2021

In 2013 a study by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) found that over 95% of the world’s population has health problems. Lower back pain […]

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Mormor and The Queen Mother

by VigApril 9, 2019February 26, 2021 2 comments

On this day (April 9) seventeen years ago, the most nurturing and positively influential woman, to me, took her last breath and left this life.

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Why Don’t you like me?

by VigMarch 31, 2019February 26, 2021

I always thought there where two kinds of people – those with and those (like me) without confidence. Those WITH confidence seemed more genuine. I […]

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The art and science of achieving goals

by VigMarch 1, 2019February 26, 2021

Apparently, most new year resolutions have fallen by the wayside by February, so what can March offer us? Is it better to sit back and […]

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Getting in sync with the teenage brain

by VigJanuary 31, 2019February 26, 2021

How brain research helped me be a better parent to my teenage daughter.  This week I had the great fortune to attend a keynote talk […]

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A Good Enough New Year Resolution

by VigJanuary 17, 2019January 17, 2019 No Comments

Whenever I struggle to keep up with my plans I ask myself; – have I broken down the steps into small enough chunks?’ I’ve been […]

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Flow

by VigNovember 26, 2018February 26, 2021

There is nothing quite so luscious as getting lost in the FLOW, where you forget that you haven’t washed your hair in 3 days and […]

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Writer’s Block

by VigNovember 5, 2018February 26, 2021
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Light a Candle

by VigOctober 30, 2018February 26, 2021 2 comments

I light a candle, defusing healing incense into the space around me, and settle with my writing. It feels like I’ve been gone forever. I’ve […]

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Egypt ā›µļø Nile Cruise Aswan – Luxor

by VigOctober 7, 2018February 26, 2021

It’s been 12 years since the last time we went on holidays, just the two of us, without the Awesome Kid. We tingle with excitement […]

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Coffee Break & Ignite Video

by VigSeptember 26, 2018February 26, 2021

Dear Ones, You’re all invited to my next Coffee Break inĀ Maadi šŸ™‚ I know some of you would be here in a heartbeat was it […]

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The Captain’s Island

by VigSeptember 6, 2018February 26, 2021 1 comment

Dear Ones, As you may know, my Dad died in July and I went to Norway for his . . . . . . . […]

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Karl Ove’s Struggle

by VigAugust 30, 2018February 26, 2021

I’m reading ā€˜Some Rain Must Fall’ by my fellow countryman and memoiristĀ  Karl Ove Knugsgaard at the moment. It starts with his student year at […]

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A week before The Funeral

by VigJuly 25, 2018March 1, 2023

Dear Ones, This is one of those strange times in my life, when all I can do is lean into love and be ok with […]

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Fear

by VigMay 28, 2018November 13, 2018 2 comments

Today feels like starting all over agin. The surge of fear swells up from my gut like burning indigestion. Halting my breath as if I’m […]

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Judging Without Why

by VigMarch 29, 2018May 16, 2019 No Comments

Last weekend, having lunch, I saw a good mum feeding her 10 year old daughter. It wasn’t a very healthy lunch and the daughter could […]

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A day of imperfection

by VigMarch 8, 2018November 13, 2018 No Comments

My god, what am I like? So yesterday I wrote about showing up on time for our Write-In’sĀ and today I turn up late for Ruby’s […]

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Reliving The Hardest Parts of Our Past

by VigFebruary 4, 2018November 13, 2018 1 comment

One of the hardest chapters for me to write was about what happened in a blue Volvo when I was about 5. It’s one of […]

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The Shitty First Draft

by VigJanuary 14, 2018February 26, 2021

Donna’s Book on Fire module on the Shitty First Draft really pissed me off. I know that every time I have a strong emotion around […]

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On Writing Memoir

by VigDecember 29, 2017February 26, 2021

I don’t want to write a memoir. It’s too raw and scary. Too ā€˜laying it all on the line,’ too vulnerable. I’m afraid I won’t […]

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