Chloe, Author at Open Mind Hypnotherapy

It has been almost two years since I last blogged here, give or take a month. It’s not been an intentional break, it just… happened. I think I’ve needed it. Life and work and kids got busier, the grief of unexpectedly losing my Dad in February 2015 impacted on me far more than I realised, […]

I’ve recently been enjoying reading an awesome book – ‘Carry On Warrior: The power of embracing your messy, beautiful life’ by Glennon Doyle Melton.  I’ve laughed, cried, nodded many times in agreement and made a note of all the bits I want to go back and read over again because I felt them deeply in […]

You may have noticed that things have been a bit quiet on the blog recently.  There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, I’ve been really quite ill for a week now – I’m not even sure what with.  Horrendous headaches, a sore throat that feels like I’m swallowing barbed wire, an awful cough […]

A girl and her cat. Considering how terrified Ella has been of animals for her whole life, she has adapted to life with Pumpkin incredibly well and I am so very proud of her.  She loves him so much – I think this image, although technically imperfect, illustrates that love perfectly.   10/52: 3.46pm, Tuesday 8th […]

I came across this quote the other day (on Instagram I think) and it resonated with me, so I thought I’d share it with you:   “For a seed to achieve it’s greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, the insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, […]

A spontaneous last-minute goodbye cuddle in the playground as Ella went off on her very first overnight school trip. They have never spent the night in separate places before, and Mimi missed Ella terribly. 9/52:  9.00am, Thursday 3rd March 2016

Today represents TWO YEARS of #projecthappy!  *happy dance* When I first started photographing the ordinary everyday little moments that make me happy as a 100-day-experiment to see if it positively impacted on my mood, I never in a million years thought that I’d still be doing it two years later.  As silly as it sounds, I’m really […]

A sneaky kiss from her Dad.  We only get to see her in half terms and holidays, plus the occasional weekend here and there, and we miss her.  We love having her to stay and the girls are always devastated when she has to go home. 8/52:  9.37am, Saturday 20th February 2016

All the behaviours we do: drinking, smoking, eating too much, not eating enough, purging, drugs, shopping, self harm, gambling, sex, OCD rituals, over-exercising, binge-watching Netflix, zoning out in front of the TV or Xbox… we do them to numb ourselves. We get feelings we don’t want to feel and thoughts we don’t want to think and […]

We’re now officially halfway through the school year and the February half term seems to have flown by. We deliberately didn’t do anything special as I think we all needed a relatively restful week, so our days were slow and our time together was unplanned and unstructured. Here are my happy moments from the last […]