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The term ‘breaking the rules’ seems to be coming up a lot in conversations I’m having at the moment – with clients, with my girls, with my husband, even with myself…  It’s appearing often enough that it seems important that I write about it.  And so here I find myself, late on a Thursday evening, tapping […]

And so another ten days of finding beauty and joy in the ordinary comes to a close. Does anyone else think that time seems to be going incredibly quickly at the moment?!                    

From a very young age I knew that I would become a mother and that I would have daughters.  There was no question about it – I was having girls and that was that. Fast forward through the next fifteen to twenty years, via a serious eating disorder, depression and lots of soul searching, and I am a […]

The most recent ten days of finding joy in the ordinary moments:                      

A client emailed this video to me yesterday.  I found it powerful enough to want to share it with all of you because it got me thinking…. If I could change one thing about my body, what would it be? If I’d answered this question fifteen years ago, just before the eating disorder started, you’d […]

When I’m working with clients, we talk a lot about voices.  Specifically, the voices in their head. I bring it up as something to discuss fairly early on – within the first 2-3 sessions.  It’s usually met with a variety of reactions – everything from surprise (that I know what they are thinking), to guilt (they think they must […]

It’s half term, so I have had plenty of joyful moments these last ten days because I’ve had my girls home with me 🙂  Here are the best ones:                      

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you’ll have noticed that for the last 230 or so days I’ve been dedicated to taking part in a personal photography project I call ‘365 Days of Happy’. The intention behind the project was to capture those little moments of joy that happen on a daily basis, but […]

The last ten days have been easier – there were almost too may happy moments to choose from. I think it helped that I took action – I decided to sit down and write, and managed to publish three blogs in just 12 hours – frantically scribbling down all the stuff I’ve been trying to write about […]

I’ve probably mentioned in recent blogs that it has been a tough month for me, both personally and professionally. At the moment my world is filled with ongoing health worries for various family members, a major operation in the pipeline for someone who is incredibly important to me, an old friend committing suicide, suicide attempts from clients, […]