As we step into yet another new year - this one celebrated by my Chinese friends - I feel so grateful for new learnings and new understandings I bring into it. These days I feel more settled within myself and so have the time and emotional capacity to connect with others. Connection has become a … Continue reading Healing Myself
Make Mistakes
'I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. So that's my wish for you, and … Continue reading Make Mistakes
Good Intentions
As the year, the decade (!), draws to a close I have realised how many good intentions I've had, goals I've set, over the last however many years, that often never see the light of day or are often discarded by the end of January. For me this is because it just becomes another to-do … Continue reading Good Intentions
Women’s Business
AKA Shedding my modesty in Marrakech This post was written back in 2016 on our family travel blog Where R the Williams which was brought to my attention today. Reading it took me back to that place again - a place and time where I found myself shedding all the protective layers I wear because … Continue reading Women’s Business
Just Exhale
Why this obsession to be good enough for other people? To be seen as 'acceptable' even if it’s not the YOU of you? One of my earliest memories is of my grandmother saying 'good girls don't do that' and ‘what will people think?’ and those two statements became a recurring theme throughout all my growing … Continue reading Just Exhale
Love YOU
Everywhere I scroll on social media, on every other page I turn in a magazine, people are suggesting that I practice self love. But I realised that I don't actually know what that means. I can't suddenly start loving myself! Can I? Surely there's far too much baggage there for that (and it's heavy ya'll!)! … Continue reading Love YOU
Breaking out of the box
Last week I heard an acronym I have never heard before... BAME ... mentioned during the launch of a diversity and inclusion study completed recently. I found out that it stands for 'Blacks, Asians and Minority Ethnics'. Great, yet another set of criteria that I need to find my place in. 🙄 And by the … Continue reading Breaking out of the box
On Being Kind
'In a world where you can be anything, be kind.' When a news article was written about me in the local paper in 2016, I railed against the adjective 'kind' being used to describe me. It seemed such a soppy word, soft and spineless and without substance. I wanted to be called independent, friendly, funny, … Continue reading On Being Kind
Share your brilliance
'I will not make myself small to be more palatable.' I read this quote recently and it made me want to live my one little life as magnificently and as brilliantly as I was intended to. Enough with putting myself down and the self deprecating jokes. Here I am. #thisisme With all my faults and … Continue reading Share your brilliance
Only Love
Today I don't want to hear about your petty annoyances. I don't want to hear your small minded musings of another's failings. I don't want to hear how someone made you angry. Because yesterday we saw what misguided anger towards another can result in. Death and the breakdown of a peaceful community. And whether it's … Continue reading Only Love
