And yes, I do mean financially. How much are you spending on nutritional supplements to ease your exhaustion or treat those niggling undiagnosable symptoms that just won’t go away? Herbs to help you sleep? How about rushed purchases to make your life easier? More expensive food, clothes that seemed to offer a solution but are …
Are you a high functioning coper, like me, hiding the fact that you’re often close to tears and not sure why? It felt to me like living on a precipice between achieving masses and it all coming tumbling down with shame, that actually I couldn’t cope – and in the end didn’t want to anymore. …
Wow-what a difference! Walked around London this weekend so happy to feel well. The more I move out of overwhelm, the more I realize what it robbed me of. I’ve never enjoyed the Christmas lights as much as this year – so happy to have the energy to walk for miles, unbothered by the crowds …
These are my three steps: Tune into and listen to your body Pay attention to what brings ease to your body In laughably tiny steps start creating a life that works better for you Step 1: Tune into and listen to your body So, your body has the information you are looking for tofeel better. …
I love writing but I can quickly become disembodied. Until I get up quickly to let a dog in or out and whack my thigh, yet again and in exactly the same place, and the pain reminds me that I do indeed still possess a very real (and sensitive) body. I’m convinced that this ability …
I’ve noticed an extraordinary amount of fungi this year. Apparently there’s been extra. So many different types – so exciting! Like a whole ‘nother world, a miniature world. I’ve been entranced. And yet I nearly stood on these guys in the photo. We were at the marvellous Westonbirt Arboretum and I was mesmerised by a …
Quote for the week in all my classes. Letting the words wash over my students whilst they dare to lie still in the middle of the day, cosied up in blankets, resting and resetting their nervous systems. It’s from a great little book I keep coming back to called ‘The Kaizen Way – one small …
There’s a lot of shame associated with my burnout. The shame of quitting a career I’d worked hard for – a rather the fact that I’d worked really hard to make myself that miserable. The shame of not being able to find a better way to cope with the demands of the job. Others seem …
This is the richest autumn I have known. The colours of the trees seem to call to me, to blaze at me. Magically golden glints of amazement. I am here! I am here! I am here! Overwhelm prevented me really being here, really experiencing, really seeing these colours. And it wasn’t from lack of effort. …
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Do you relish time alone and love waking up to days without any plans on the calendar? I do, but for some reason I’ve spent most of my life cramming too much into my calendar. Actually, it’s not for ‘some reason’ it’s because I didn’t want to be an introvert, I wanted to be far …
