I am continually surprised by life’s hurdles..it often feels like one hurdle to jump over then another comes up so fast! Some people call these stages and trials in life ‘seasons’, yet in England our seasons are not so clear cut as Spring,Summer,Autumn,Winter! We can have all four seasons in one day. Today on one […]
Rest Rest Rest Put on some beautiful music Turn off your phone Light a candle Rest Rest Rest You’ll be better for it Everything will be better from it Rest Rest Rest “Ask and it will be given to you Seek and you will find Knock and the door will be opened to you. For […]
Tonight I was at the memorial service of a lad who should have been celebrating his 21st Birthday. Yet sadly instead he was remembered by family and friends in a beautiful way as we all let go of 21 balloons in his honour. I feel quite surrounded by grief at the minute. It suddenly hit […]
My Lion is now 9months (I know! Already!?), he has been a bit poorly over the last few weeks. Saturday night on one of his coughing episodes I went into his room to soothe him back to sleep. I needed him to not know I was there so I was glad it was dark so […]
I read of a terrible crime today. I read of a ‘sex-worker’ who has done a terrible thing and will be in prison for a very long time. If found guilty she deserves to be in prison for a very long time. The pain for me is that I know this woman, I have been […]
On Monday I was unable to run my session and once again came close to the realisation of the pain that is experiences by those in prison. The latest figures by ‘women in prison’ have shown that; In the year leading up to March 2013, six women died in custody. There were 94 self-inflicted deaths of women prisoners […]
‘Depression’ seems to be a word thrown around these days and has such bad connotations. It makes me think of someone trapped in their room unable to come out without poppin pills. Recently however I feel I have found a secret underground world of people who are struggling with depression. People I would never have […]
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