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 …
How to create a safe vessel to write from
Feeling Frazzled
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 …
Hope
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 …
Letting go of Knowing
Since last week’s blog I’ve pondered the question of wether I can truly let go of knowing, of control, of being right, even if it’s …
Connect before you React
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 …
Not OK
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 ‘wait’ …
Charity – The Gift of Giving
In 1910 Wallace D. Wattles wrote; “The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep …
The True North of Memoir
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 …
Illness the New Normal
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 …
Mormor and The Queen Mother
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.
Why Don’t you like me?
I always thought there where two kinds of people – those with and those (like me) without confidence. Those WITH confidence seemed more genuine. I …
The art and science of achieving goals
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 …
Getting in sync with the teenage brain
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 …
A Good Enough New Year Resolution
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 …
Even Writers . . .
You know, when you go to write the ‘homepage’ of your website, the homage of yourself and the light you want to shine in the world, …
Flow
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 …
Writer’s Block
Light a Candle
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 …
Egypt ⛵️ Nile Cruise Aswan – Luxor
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 …
Coffee Break & Ignite Video
Dear Ones, You’re all invited to my next Coffee Break in Maadi 🙂 I know some of you would be here in a heartbeat was it …
The Captain’s Island
Dear Ones, As you may know, my Dad died in July and I went to Norway for his . . . . . . . …
Karl Ove’s Struggle
I’m reading ‘Some Rain Must Fall’ by my fellow countryman and memoirist Karl Ove Knugsgaard at the moment. It starts with his student year at …
Fear
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 …
Judging Without Why
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 …
A day of imperfection
My god, what am I like? So yesterday I wrote about showing up on time for our Write-In’s and today I turn up late for Ruby’s …
Reliving The Hardest Parts of Our Past
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 …
The Shitty First Draft
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 …
On Writing Memoir
I don’t want to write a memoir. It’s too raw and scary. Too ‘laying it all on the line,’ too vulnerable. I’m afraid I won’t …
Turning anxiety into self-awareness
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 …
