For each of us who has walked through the door of a fertility clinic it is a momentous moment that carries so many complex emotions. Embarking on the process of fertility treatment requires trust, resilience and hope. We walk through that door and into a world of numbers and percentages where the odds are much … More Day 1 of the Poemathon
Turning Creativity into a Sponsored Event Hello lovely friends It’s late Autumn – a time of luminous spiders’ webs and rich colours and here in the UK, National Fertility Awareness Week is nearly upon us. Between 30 October and 5 November, the media will be promoting fertility initiatives ranging from educating young people about … More National Fertility Awareness Week
On many levels this has proved a difficult post to write – technically, professionally and emotionally. It is tricky to write about something that wasn’t: a non-fictional person who never existed. I say ‘non-fictional’ because a child is created before it is conceived. I don’t know who said this (please let me know if … More The Presence of Absence: learning to live with my potential child
Hello lovely people In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman presented a ‘thought experiment’: what if you go on holiday and you know that at the end of the holiday all your photos or videos would be destroyed or deleted. How would that change your experience of your holiday? It’s a thought-provoking question … More The Art of Not Sharing: maintaining creativity in a connected world.
Hello lovely friends. This month’s post (well, I just squeezed it into July!) is longer than my usual. Nevertheless, I hope it will be helpful and perhaps will shed some light on the power and the potential tyranny of hope and how we can find inspiration, in unexpected ways, to transform a stale hope for … More The End of Hope: How a cake helped me let go of my dream to have a child
Hello lovely people Well, the season has finally turned and we, in the northern hemisphere, are entering early summer with (we all hope!) the promise of warmer days ahead. Despite my horticultural ignorance and negligence, the plants in my garden are sprouting, springing and flowering again and, at the risk of breaking into song, … More Moments of Emergence
Mother’s Day blah blah *##%&$##!!!… …for a long time this was my reaction to Mother’s Day. I dreaded it – all the seemingly self-congratulating smugness of it. I would write my cards to my mother and a great aunt and reflect on the fact that I felt unworthy, excluded from an exclusive club and that … More Bold, Defiant and Glorious: Surviving Mother’s Day
The Big Questions Two very small domestic things occurred this week that started me thinking about trusting our instincts and how we can access our inner wisdom. First of all, my husband and I hung a series of pictures along our staircase wall. Not, I admit, the normal route to spiritual awakening! But what … More Inner Wisdom
It’s a phrase we’ve heard so often: ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’’. Indeed it can be very freeing to escape the minutiae of life, to simply step over that distracting little detail in order to focus on walking towards your goal. But at the other end of the scale, the small stuff can … More The Beauty of the Small Stuff
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