Midweek Mantra: Gathering the Minutes
My diary is a tumultuous place. Full of weeks of blank pages that suddenly become months of flurried activity and then settle again into blankness. My relationship with this dichotomy of diary states...
View ArticleTwenty-Seven Thoughts for Twenty-Seven Years
Fair warning: this post is long. Read it in chunks. Read only a little. Read the whole lot. Let me know what you think. Yesterday I turned twenty-seven. That’s only three years away from thirty, and a...
View ArticleMidweek Mantra: Do it Every Day
When you have a dream, a vision, or a soul-shaking idea of what you want your life to be you are awakened to the gap between your current location and your planned destination. We are bombarded with...
View ArticleNourished Life: Small Great Things
All of my life I have wanted to do great things. I have felt that somehow my life was only worth measuring by impressive feats and grand achievements. I felt that I needed to ‘make something’ of myself...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Nineteen
As I write I am sitting in a patch of afternoon sun with the bay breeze blowing through the window. I should be working on my uni dissertation, and this it the plan for the rest of the evening, but...
View ArticleThoroughly Nourished Finds – Inspiration and Escapism
Things in the world are getting really real at the moment, and because I don’t listen to the radio, or watch the news I find out about them on the internet, or through friends (and then end up trawling...
View ArticleTime for a Break
My dearest blog readers, This is one of the hardest posts I’ve ever had to write. But after much consideration, I have decided to take a break for a few weeks. Don’t worry – I’ll be back as soon as I...
View ArticleMy Journey to Intuitive Eating: June – Cookbooks
Today, I’m going to be a bit vulnerable with you all. I’ve started thinking more about the ways and whys of how and what I eat lately, and I thought I’d share some of these thoughts with you. If this...
View ArticleMy 12 Favourite Self Care Practices
Self care has become one of the most recognised and important elements of working towards a healthy relationship with yourself and maintaining and increasing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual...
View ArticleWellness Wednesday: How I Deal with Meal Anxiety
Last Friday night Chris organised to take me on a surprise date. He picked a restaurant, booked a table, and didn’t tell me where we were going until Friday morning. He’s a keeper. Sitting down at the...
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