Self-Care
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Introducing The Soulskin Readings
Last week I launched a very special new service to my mailing list, and, lucky for you, I still have a some spaces left. So I’m opening the opportunity up to you, sweetheart, because I have a feeling that it will sing to your heart, just as it’s sung to mine. The Soulskin Readings is a really unique offering. I can honestly say that I’ve never ever seen anything quite like it before. The idea for it just dropped into my head, fully-formed, and before I knew it, I’d prepared all my materials, written up the details, launched to my mailing list and started work on my first client’s soulskin.…
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I See You
This is for you, dear one, for when you feel rejected, unappreciated, unseen. For all those times when you feel like your light has been overlooked, your specialness unacknowledged, your worth ignored. These words are here to remind you that you, my sweet, are luminous, cherished, and yes, loved – loved beyond all measure. Shine, baby girl. Shine! For too long now you’ve been content to live in the shadows sitting in the back row, blending into the background, believing that this was where you belonged. But you were meant for so much more. Your voice which you keep so small and contained, barely breaking above a whisper, was made…
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Why I Write Morning Pages
I write morning pages. Every morning without fail. Even when I recently had a pressing engagement through in Glasgow that required I leave the house at 5.30 (with 3 fed, washed & dressed children), I was up at 4.15 in the still quiet of the early morning dark, writing my three A4 pages of longhand stream of consciousness. My pen travelled fluidly across the lined paper and I struggled to keep my eyes open. A part of me is surprised at myself. I didn’t know I had it in me to be so dedicated to a practice. Give me a challenge, set me a target and I will respond with…
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Reading Resistance
This is the final post in my Summer Read-Along series on Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife; it was supposed to go up tomorrow, but due to weekend plans, I’m posting it a bit early! To post a comment or add a link please scroll down… It’s funny, because this isn’t the final post I envisioned for this series at all. I had thought that I’d probably write something along the lines of long-lasting love, or maybe the pain of grief and loss, or even a meditation on patience. But instead, I find that I am writing about resistance. My own resistance, to be exact. You see, when I first…
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5 (Early Day) Summer of Self Lessons
So, the family has now flown to Australia, and I am sitting in a very quiet apartment with none of the usual hustle or bustle that ordinarily surrounds me. It’s been an interesting couple of days since they left, and I wanted to share with you some of what I’ve learned in my Summer of Self so far… 1. I have no idea how to do a food shop for one person, let alone how to cook for one. I visited the supermarket today to buy supplies as my kitchen looks like it belongs more to old Mother Hubbard than to myself. And I must admit that I got a…
