Lucky’s New Home
Regular followers of my blog will know that when I moved into my current house I inherited a goldfish that the previous owners had left behind but not told me about. I named her Lucky because I didn’t know about her for ages, she didn’t get fed and she lived in a tiny, shallow belfast…
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Unconditional Love
Is there such a thing as unconditional love? Should there even be? Surely all love comes with conditions. When we marry we promise to “love, honour….. and keep me only unto thee” which are all conditions of the marriage partnership. And while most parents would say they unconditionally love their children, this changes as the…
Soul Food: Purpose
Most of us, when we’re young adults, are full of purpose. We may be studying, pursuing career advancement, building a home or starting a family. When we get older, however, it can become more challenging to find purpose to our days. The beginnings of middle age for me, when I turned 50, were stupidly busy.…
Wyrd Wednesdays: Mediumship
I had another fabulous Wyrd Wednesday at the Centre for Liminal Studies at Broughton Sanctuary last week. We were treated to an afternoon workshop by Penny Hayward, where we practised our psychic abilities and had a go at mediumship. At the end of last year I began to have some weird things happening in my…
The Narcissist’s Playbook docu-film
When I met my previous boyfriend I thought I’d found The One. He was highly intelligent, articulate, wealthy and successful. Vulnerable, a grieving Widower whose Wife had died suddenly, a doting Dad and Grandad, interested in spirituality, personal growth and longing for love. That was his mask at least and the persona he wore to…
Gratitude: Connection
Human Beings are wired for connection. When I was bedridden for a decade and spending 23, often 24, hours a day lying in bed alone I understood why solitary confinement is used as a form of punishment. It was tortuous and I honestly thought I would die from loneliness. But just because we are in…
Question Everything
As a child, I was brought up in the Christian Church. At 15 I seriously thought I would become a Nun and it wasn’t until I took Theology for one of my A levels that I ever thought to question my faith. Having spent 2 years doing so I decided religion was not for me.…
Soul Wounds: Infidelity
Trust is the foundational “glue” of human society, essential for our psychological, biological, and social survival. Historically, humans lived in small groups where relying on others for hunting, gathering, and protection was a strict matter of survival. In more modern times, we build trusting relationships with other nations to exchange food and other vital resources…
More Serendipity
I was in a village shop the other day and I got talking to the shop owner about ponds. Like most serendipitous events I have no clue how the conversation started, but I told him of the saga of Lucky my goldfish. “I didn’t want fish in my new wildlife pond” I moaned “it was…
Ear Worms
I can’t remember which post I wrote about this in, but I mentioned a few months ago that I had a song going round and round in my brain. It was ‘Sexy Love’ by Ne-Yo which isn’t something I would ordinarily listen to and I had no idea why, for some weeks, it was suddenly…
Vibrational Intimacy
Our romantic partnerships are different to any other relationship we have in our lives due to the fact they contain physical intimacy, and because of the physical intimacy there is an emotional intimacy which we don’t experience with anyone else. There is a difference between love, even the deep and unconditional love we have for…
Vibrational Harmony
What does it feel like to vibrate on the same energy frequency as someone or something else? Like the delicate fragrance of a Sweet Pea, it’s almost impossible to describe to someone who has never inhaled the scent. I was in the garden most of yesterday under a hot summer sun. I’ve never been so…
Say No…& Yes
We are bombarded with messages every day that we are not enough. That our life as we’re living it is not enough. We’re missing out on the latest shiny new stuff. Exotic travel. Wild adventures. We should give more to others and our communities through volunteer work. Our children need more interactions, more interests, more…
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