Last week I had a dilemma. My usually perky precocious enthusiastic daughter little Miss Janey was tired, tearful and quiet. Quiet. As in no chatting. No words. No singing, not even a hum. In between her sobs, while lying curled…
Category: Anxiety & Depression
Knock knock. Whose there?
What happens when hopelessness starts to creep in? The soft, low grade, vibration that is there in the background getting louder and louder, so slowly that you hardly notice. But it’s there alright, and starting to make itself known. The…
Lockdown Level up: Part 1
Life as we know it will never be the same again. I have read these words often recently. The new normal. Unprecedented times. Surreal. Apocalyptic. It’s all very dramatic and panic-attack inducing at the very least. While we are now…
Taking one’s own
Today I am grateful that I am here. Alive, breathing. Today someone else is not. Today someone is not here. Yesterday someone lost a loved one, a husband, a wife, a father, a mother, a brother, a sister, a son…
Climbing the ladder
This morning I got up early without snoozing.But I hadn't been.I meditated for 10 minutes, which I still find incredibly difficult to do and stick to.But I hadn't been.
D Day
If feels like forever. It feels like a minute ago..... And that was that. A marriage dissolved. Divorced.