I have a birthday coming up and as ever, I struggle with this. So much so that in my blanking out of birthdays I failed to ring one of my...

I was woken by the sound of my husband knocking over a glass which smashed, in the bathroom last night. I realised what had happened, it...

Lots of steps forward over the year, downgrading my fears into more childlike forms. 1) Fear of not being good enough Learning to be less...

I’ve been finding lots of alternatives to use when I wake up with a strong fear or difficult emotion. I recently reexperienced my...

I’ve been busy doing some printing, we are going away fairly soon and creating my xmas cards is a job that I would rather not have on our...

Well it actually went very well, the family visit. And I have to give myself a big pat on the back for that because the difference was...

with quite a lot of the answers worked out, but not all of them, and that’s ok. I have now had over a week of a huge step forward. I’m...

This week has been a roller coaster of emotions. I have made huge leaps forward, experienced happiness and contentment that I thought...

I’ve been reading a couple of interesting books on fear. Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker Embracing Fear by Thom Rutledge. I was looking...

So how has this year gone?(I need to reread this in the run up next year.) I think I was RELATIVELY peaceful in the run up. I remember...

I had an email in my inbox this week from Sarah Woodhouse( https://sarahwoodhouse.com/about-me/) Those of us with relational trauma often...

So I had a good day starting to get stuck in. Just getting my hands dirty again. And in a huge life parallel, there is so much internal...

I’ve mentioned the book “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel Van der Kolk before, about how the body displays outward manifestations of...

Busy old week with two very different enterprises. So a few weeks ago I had mentioned my continuing preoccupation about the cello. The...

I recently was sent an email from Sarah Woodhouse https://sarahwoodhouse.com who is a trauma specialist and psychologist. She was...

It’s that time of year again, my second worst day after Xmas, birthday time! Sometimes I find just being me is so....tiresome! I’d like...

The big clear out makes me think about getting rid of stuff in general. I like Marie Kondo’s ideas and in the past read a book on Swedish...

I posted a few weeks ago about what I might do in the future and then an email dropped into my account with a newsletter from LDComics....

Quite apart from real life problems, I’ve been working on Zine 4 and it has brought up lots of pesky emotions which just get in the way!...

A follow up to last week is that I had to put a ban on myself getting fixated on an issue which I had no control over, no say in and...