How I let the pandemic change me – work
My mum studied with the Open University when I was a child. I remember her being moved by the poems of Heaney and Ted Hughes. She read us the poems and who knows whether it was her passion that led me to my literature degree. She didn’t finish hers, the demands of single parenting in … Read more
Living differently 2 – the difficulties and reasons for living your own way
It isn’t always easy to build a life on your terms, but here’s what I’ve learned from some of the blocks I have faced.
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p.s
I’ve added some new online courses to Teachable so I would really appreciate it if you would let people know about them.
Thank … Read more
Addiction
When I was growing up addicts did drugs.
They were the 1980s posters of heroin before it was fashionably chic, sunken, grey, skeletal with dead eyes and pin marks in their arms.
It wasn’t until later I saw that addicts also drank and smoked. I had been confused as these two drugs were so easily … Read more
Climate emergency – how our health depends on a healthy planet
Without a healthy planet human beings will struggle to thrive and possibly thrive as we are already seeing in some parts of the world. We need clean air, clear water and nutritious food and so how can focusing on our health also be good for the planet? How supporting our health also supports the planet’s … Read more
Talking about the menopause
It feels like a long time ago that I was writing blogs about the menopause in 2015/16:
A positive take on the menopause
and female hormones:
To be honest, I don’t really think about the menopause much these days … Read more
Herbs and healing
This week I had a chance to talk to Sami Blackford who I first met at a Red Tent I ran a few years ago. She told us her story, of how she had acne as a teenager and how nothing worked to clear it up. I had also had awful skin at that age. … Read more