Category: Blog posts

  • Life Lessons

    What lessons is life trying to teach you right now? Are you receptive to learning? For years, life tried to teach me self-care – I wouldn’t listen until hit with Chronic Fatigue. Now life is trying to teach me patience (I wish life luck with that one!!!), and at least I am willing to listen,…

  • Chill Out

    Time’s might be tough, there may be lots of things to worry about and fret about, but how does that fretfulness help you to survive the tough times? It doesn’t…it makes it even worse. Remember always that you are a resourceful, wonderful human being and you can cope with whatever life throws at you. And…

  • Love’s Labour’s Lost

    Last week I treated myself to a trip to Stratford to see Love’s Labour’s Lost. I had a standing ticket, but queued with the returns people to see if I could get a nice seat. This also turned into a fabulous experience! There were about a dozen of us (I was last!) to begin with…

  • Hold Your Dreams Gently

    Our dreams, goals and ambitions are enormously important to us, so sometimes we hold on too tight and burst the bubble! Treat your dreams as the precious, fragile things that they are. Don’t expose them to criticism too early from cynics, and believe in them. If you have the dream, you have all you need…

  • Love’s Labour’s Lost – YAY!

    A couple of months ago I went to see Dr Who (David Tennant) in Hamlet at the Crescent Theatre in Stratford. I discovered that he was also in Love’s Labour’s Lost – a Shakespeare play that is rarely performed (at Stratford at least). It was sold out, but you can sometimes get a ticket if…

  • Count Your Blessings.

    The happiest people on earth realise how much they have (even when they have ‘nothing’ in material terms). How often do you count your blessings? Make a point of listing 5 things daily that you are grateful for – especially when you feel there is nothing to be grateful for! For example, you have the…

  • What is it about gigs that always leaves me hoarse?

    Well, the obvious answer to that question is that I sing and cheer along and don’t stop talking even though it is LOUD! Tuesday night Feeder were playing at the Academy in Birmingham…and they were pretty ordinary! I have seen them a few times before, and seen them BRILLIANT most of the time, so for…

  • If you had 100% self belief…

    I came across this question a week or so ago “If you believed in yourself 100%, what would you do differently?” – at the time I was working on my ebook project, and the first answer to spring to mind was that I would start asking people to look at the first draft and give…

  • Let’s Get Happy.

    Don’t wait for the circumstances of your life to be ‘perfect’ before you’re happy, get happy now. How? By noticing the little stuff that makes you happy, and consciously enjoying yourself. So the next time you are in the bath, or enjoying a meal, or reading a book, or out with friends, notice your happy…

  • Releasing the Pain

    The first anniversary of my uncle’s death has just passed…I can hardly believe that it’s been a year already – where does the time go? In an attempt to finally process what happened, I’ve been looking at my diaries and blog entries for this time last year, and finally writing about what happened. I’m letting…