01 Dec On being brave
Today started a bit tricky. I had one of those mornings where everything was fine until all of a sudden it wasn't.Usually if I am feeling anxious, or working up...
29 Nov Advent: Today and the search for truth.
On the way home from church today we found trees blown down across the road. Huge branches blocking our path, dangerous obstacles getting in our way, preventing us from continuing...
19 Nov When things get under my skin.
Yesterday, I took a deep breath and told Laura all the things that were on my mind.It took a while.I listed the disappointments and the complicated relationships. I told her...
16 Nov Be Alive: To Hope (when Everything is Wrong)
I had one of those thoughts last night, just before I went to sleep.Everything is wrong.The world is upside down and inside out.I drive around in my car, moving children...
10 Nov Be alive: to being open
When I was still really not well, and I was just focussed on surviving the days (and the nights), I had to close myself off. I had to live a...
04 Nov Practising Stillness 2: Meditation.
I am not good at quiet. And I have had a tough time making friends with silence.I am an extrovert. Okay, an extrovert who has suffered with depression, but an extrovert...
29 Oct for when you feel you will never be enough, some truth.
Today, I feel dull.Dull and tired.Like this feverish sore throat nonsense will never leave. Like I will never have enough energy to get everything I want to get done. Like...
23 Oct Practising stillness 1: Landscape
I remember a line I read in a novel once which described the city as 'humming with anxiety'. I pictured the cars sat at traffic lights, engines turning over, poised,...
20 Oct This year or, Who I was, I still am.
Matt and I have an ongoing debate about who is the biggest hoarder.(fyi. he is.)Whether it is books, or clothes or tins full of receipts from 1994, the conversation crops...