Motivating and Inspiring
Why gratitude helps you find inner peace
Feeling gratitude for the life we have, despite all its darkness, can be difficult to achieve. But if you do, you will feel the healing energy gratitude can have. [READ MORE]
gratitude
Motivating and Inspiring
Decluttering clothes and memories
When I saw my old clothes in the second-hand charity shop my heart cried. Old memories and feelings started flooding back, and I even felt disloyal. Had the decluttering gone too far? Are you good at decluttering or do [READ MORE]
Coping with loss
Body Donation – a gift with emotional hurdles.
We all benefit from medical training that includes the study of real bodies. Yet the emotional hurdles of body donation for donors, their families and medical staff are not insignificant. Nevertheless, I consider donating my body and here is [READ MORE]
Family & Relationships
Why the most important friendship is with you
Friendships come in many shapes and sizes, are short or long, continuous, start and stop and resume. The most important friendship is the one least acknowledged and often the hardest to achieve and maintain. Why? Important friendships are rare. [READ MORE]
Thought for your day
Hope and Trust
HOPE AND TRUST
Coping with loss
Your death touches my mortality
The death of people we do not know personally can still affect us in many ways. It can touch our mortality. The death of the BBC’s Komla Dumor, aged 41, in January 2014 affected me in many ways. And [READ MORE]