So as the rest of the world is trying to speed up every moment I am trying to slow it all down. As many are readily inviting digital and AI and instant hot water taps and robot typed messages and automatic everything, I am inviting analogue and using my brain and waiting for the kettle to boil and letters and manual everything.

An unexpected consequence of learning to handle the alpacas in a gentle and respectful way, was that it was teaching me how I can ask for the type of handling I need as a survivor of abuse and how we, as humans, can learn to accept each other as we are.

Most kids tend to have imaginary friends. I had imaginary animals. Three of them; a bird, a horse and a dog. If I could, I would always choo

The most sensitive of our animals have often been the most poorly handled and often carry an inaccurate label. A label that describes who th

Last week I was setting up the central altar for our Wild Woman Yoga class. I popped on a playlist and found myself dancing, singing and...

I adore a good book. I could write a bibliography of my life through books. I love the journey they take you on, the way they make you...

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My heart breaks when I see photos of us like this. The ‘before’. Then I remember how easy it is to only remember the good bits. Before I...

From addiction to obsession Before I discovered yoga I was in survival mode. I went from work to ​sleep to work and from addiction to...

The Shy Child Sent to Stagecoach I wasn't a naturally expressive person in the sense that as a child I was incredibly, painfully shy and...

Every year I get braver and braver in meeting my emotions and it seems the more resilience I develop the more challenging the emotional...

I used to think January 1st was a funny time to start a year but as I've more closely observed nature I see that it is less arbitrary...

If my heart and I had a status it would definitely be 'it's complicated' but in recent times I'm starting to feel that we're actually in...