Mapping the Way Home

Mapping the Way Home: the Sufis and the Three Stages of Spiritual Awakening Food, body image and self-acceptance have run like a royal road right through my life.  Food is and was my safety, my comfort and my security, my north star through a difficult childhood adoption spent in fear of abandonment and fear of…

Reading Matters: Warming the Stone Child

“Whenever there is adoption, there is its corollary, abandonment” Meredith Resnick, Psychology Today This sound book ( I can find no written word copy) is extraordinarily powerful for those of us ready to listen. Depth When we drop a small pebble into the river, the smooth, unspectacular surface penetrates down, down, down beneath the surface…

Epitaph, Footnote: Jo Cox, MP

Vibrant, courageous, compassionate: three words to describe a life. Another tragedy another mother lost in the battle against hatred. How devastatingly cruel to lose such a character as Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire someone who could and was making a difference for her community. The Daily Telegraph describes her as…

On being a Mum

Yesterday, Alison asked me what I wrote about on my blog. And I couldn’t answer. I froze. And then waffled. And sold myself short (again). It struck me as odd that’s all and I merely write and observe upon this experience below. Why do I write? I write here because something in me compells me…