This week has been surreal and traumatic on a level that cannot be comprehended, nor articulated and the effects of which have not yet even begun to sink in. I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel bouts of…
Tag: perspective
Fair Weather Writing
Firstly I must apologise for the array of spam like emails that found their way into my respected and dearly appreciated subscribers inbox last Friday. I was hoping to very quietly and inconspicuously upload my “Hitting the wall series” to…
Tog bag teachings in failure
It’s 7.40am on a Thursday in April and I’m sitting in my car outside school, clutching Aiden’s swimming tog bag in my lap. I had illegally messaged the school asking if I could drop it off for him. This was…
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…
Gifts of Growth & Gratitude
Two years ago, I was burnt out, broken and basically bedridden. I spent a week cocooned under the duvet, feeling the effects of a perfect life imploding in a year long spiral of stress. One year ago, I was brave…
Thank you 20/20
Usually, at this time of year, I am frazzled beyond recognition.Usually, at this time of year, it’s a downward spiral of stress from October.Usually, at this time of year, I’m overstretched, overcommitted, overwhelmed and over it. Usually. But 2020 has…
