Musings, Meanderings & Meditations

In November 2019 I flew to Austin, Texas for my first overseas trip away from my family for 17 years. I won't lie - I was incredibly nervous about going. Only something genuinely important would have been enough to make me go to a whole different continent, too far to...

We're now at the end of the first week in February and I'm curious to know how it's going for you. Have you been weaving in little bits of extra self-care into your life? Are you noticing any differences, subtle or big? If you're struggling to make changes, that's...

I've never liked labelling any emotion as negative. Sure, emotions can be scary. Emotions can be overwhelming. Emotions can result in self-destructive behaviours. But emotions are also incredibly useful, yes, even the negative ones. When I started my treatment for...

At the beginning of a chakra dance meditation class, I usually pull an oracle card for everyone there. We might dance with the energies of the card or we might simply take it as a message we need and let that shape our movements in whatever way we need - or not at...

When my second child was born, my oldest was fourteen months old. I noticed a definite change in his behaviour and put it down to his not liking being the only child any more. I figured he didn't like someone else getting attention, but I was wrong. It wasn't that he...

Yesterday couldn't have gone any better. It was the first time my child and I had visited a university and I'm not ashamed to say that when it came to checking in, I was way too emotional to speak without crying, so I gestured at my child to answer the question of...