Football frightens me
I have sons who love football and so for years I have stood in mud and cold by the side of small pitches watching kids kick a ball. Then they grow up and want to keep on kicking a ball. None of this do I have any issue with. Health, fitness, being part of a … Read more
Playing Big and Taking Fear Along For The Ride
Over Christmas I read a great book by Tara Mohr called Playing Big . It’s subtitle is: ‘A practical guide for brilliant women like you’.
In the book she points out how women play small:
- We use words like ‘just’ which has the effect of minimising what are going to do. I do this on
From Love to Fear and back again
Fear
The other Saturday night we watched Lost Land of the Volcano on BBC which showed Steve Backshall, Gordon Buchanan, a giant rat (as big as a cat) and a cuscus (a tree climbing marsupial)l in a crater of an extinct volcano in New Guinea.
The cuscus was first ever seen on camera by Buchanan and … Read more
‘Fear is the mind killer..’ (and how we scare ourselves)
Youngest son asked me to write this one…about the praying mantis….seen above.
Youngest son and Praying Mantis have spent a long moments of intimate contact together on the beach since we’ve been here. I don’t know if it’s the same Mantis we’ve met twice, or two different ones, but both are big friends with Youngest.… Read more
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