General News
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Demeter’s Story
Yesterday I released my retelling of Demeter’s Story to those who are participating in my online course Bloom by Moon. It’s a beautiful story that engages with the themes of mothering, grief, loss and the cyclic nature of things. It engages with issues of what it means to nurture another being, the empty-nest syndrome and the danger of over-investing our sense of self in our relationships with our children. However, it is not solely relevant for women who have birthed and raised children – I take a much broader view of the relevance of the mother goddess than that. As I stated in a post I shared over at Roots…
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Starting Afresh
It’s been a wee while since I posted here, and that because lots of things have been going on in the background. Lots of endings and beginnings, lots of changes and transitions. It’s all really positive, but it has meant that this blog has been rather neglected. So I’m calling this a fresh start. September has always felt like a time of beginnings for me. I think perhaps because this is the start of the academic year. Accordingly, I am changing the way I deliver my own Bloom by Moon course materials. Since I started developing and sharing this course, I have relied on Ning to help me organise the…
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Breathing Deep
I seem to be sighing a lot at the moment. Huge sighs that seem to rise up from the soles of my feet. I’m breathing deep and leaning in. I’m ignoring the inner critic, being kind to myself and I’m letting the tears flow when they need to – which is often. But in the midst of all this sighing, I’m keeping busy. I’ve put together the details for our summer read-along of The Time Traveler’s Wife. We’re going to start reading on the 20th June (next Monday) and I want to invite you to join in, share your thoughts in blog posts, on Twitter and FaceBook, and in the…
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The Time-Traveler’s Wife Read-Along Update
This is just a quick video to fill you in on where we’re at with The Time-Traveler’s Wife Read-Along. If you want to join in, check out this post, and leave me a wee comment! You may also want to subscribe to my newsletter to make sure that you don’t miss out on further info 🙂
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A Summer of Self
I know, it’s an opportunity that most of us fantasize about, right? What would it be like to not to have all our time and space and energy and attention taken up by our jobs, our children, and our partners? Just imagine what we could achieve! A regular yoga practice. A slow delicious morning routine. A sparkling social life. A clean bathroom… the list goes on and on. And then we feel the stirring of the slow-burning embers of a guilty conscious. After all, we’re good at our job, and, let’s face it, in this economic climate we’re lucky to have a job at all. We love our children and…
