What is your purpose in life? Taking the road less travelled.

I'm so pleased to have participants already starting to embrace themselves with presence, awareness and love. The gentle transformation has begun! Why I wrote the Therapy Toolbox Course.

Choosing a word of the year can set an intention for the year, in the simplest form.

I chose the word ‘grow’ because I intend to grow myself, my Therapy Toolbox course, and help other women to grow too. It will be a slow-grow.

I find it enlightening and freeing to let go of the old year before looking into the next so wanted to share this simple process with you. Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions and duality and who gives January its name, has two faces. One looks forward, and one looks back.

I have always loved the joy of Christmas, though it is also a painful time of year for me. It brings into sharp relief who and what I have lost in my life. This, with feeling pressured to ‘have fun’ and ‘be jolly’, well, let’s just say my emotions could run riot.

This poem is always popping into my head, since I learned it at school as a child. He is right, don’t you think?

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

Auguries of Innocence

An inspiring poem, filled with gems.

BY WILLIAM BLAKE

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

A Robin Red breast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage …

Learn how to write a therapeutic journal. Think of the journal page as your therapeutic space. A place of reflection and insight shared only between you and the page. Writing your thoughts and feelings gives them a voice, the page is a container for the swirling mass of thoughts and feelings inside.