I had the great good fortune of sitting as one of 10 women around my dining table this Sunday. It was a collaboration which lit up the room and our hearts. It signalled what is possible when we gather and combine forces, minds, hearts and vulnerability. The plate of food contributed by each person at …
Who knew that watching a tennis player scream abuse at his team and loved ones as they watch him play in the Wimbledon Finals could be so personally educational! Stunning tennis; physical movement and psychological command at its best. But, Woah! Have you witnessed the outbursts of Australian player, Nick Kyrgios? We get close ups …
As I was writing my previous post, Dreamer, this Goethe quote popped into my mind and the encouragement, “begin it”, would not let up. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Poet I sat for a while, as the …
I would have been only 9 when I first heard the track, Dreamer, on my brother’s Supertramp album, Crime of the Century. We listened to that album over and over sitting on orange, faux-velvet sofas, feet in the brown, shag-pile carpet, looking out at sunsets or rain over the Welsh hills. That particular track still …
Blossoms burnish bark Pruned branch flowering from scars says bloom where you are. EmmaJ I was struck by the “pom-poms” adorning this old cherry in Clifton Village, Bristol during my trip last month. I have never seen anything quite like it and admired the effort and enthusiasm! This poem started to take form as I …
After surviving winter and getting our extremities frozen, here comes spring and all her demands for growth. In the past few days I have watched as these buds have grown, and with a little more warmth and refreshing rain, they are now fluffed out, broken free from their sticky casings and so the tree grows. …
We were primed for this pandemic. We who have lived through the explosion of normal into shards of incredulity and horror. We who remember the day of diagnosis, life’s seismic shift when lofty dreams switched to, I want to live!
EPISODE TEN: Embracing Social Support So the very last piece of the 10-part puzzle is in recognising that we need others. We need support. “One of the paradoxes of healing is that the body is fully equipped to heal itself, and we can’t do it alone.” Dr Lissa Rankin. Kathryn Alexander was diagnosed with Stage …
EPISODE NINE: Following your Intuition What is intuition anyway? Cynthia Li MD admits to having been very reluctant to entertain intuition as a factor in her healing from Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. She was highly skeptical of it, but that got broken open by her disease; “Intuition was not something that I had sought out to develop. …
EPISODE EIGHT: Using Supplements and Herbs Would you swallow 24,000 pills per year for 10 years? You might if you had been given a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and only 12 months to live, with a feeble promise of 18 months if you did chemotherapy. This is Reggie Pierce’s story. He is still here to …