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Five weeks ago I attended the gorgeous Regents University in London for Questival – a biennial get-together of graduates from The Quest Institute. Well, I say get-together.  It’s a lot more than that really.  It’s primarily a learning experience consisting of three seminars throughout the day, delivered by both Trevor Silvester and a keynote speaker.  Each […]

A couple of weeks ago my middle daughter, Mimi, was trying to draw a picture of something and it wasn’t turning out how she wanted it to look. She was getting more and more frustrated and upset with herself until eventually she wailed “Oh Mummy, I’m rubbish at EVERYTHING!”, and burst into gut-wrenching sobs. My […]

I’ll be honest – this block of days for my #365happydays project has been much more tricky to post than usual. Some days it’s been hard to find the happy moment. Really hard. There have been some not-so-good days over the last couple of weeks – days where I’ve struggled to see the good bits, […]

It’s Friday!  It also happens to be World Smile Day. There are many things in my life that I have to smile about – I’m incredibly lucky. Despite all of these wonderful things, over the last couple of months I’ve felt that I’ve lost my smile, let my light dim a little bit.  I’ve had lots of things on my […]

Another ten days have already flown by – I don’t know where the time is going at the moment! Here are my happy moments from amongst the chaos of everyday life:                      

The word ‘brave’ has been going round in my head for several weeks now.  Months even. Confession:  I don’t feel very brave a lot of the time. A brilliant friend of mine (who also happens to be an excellent coach-and-therapist too) posted a question on Facebook the other day: “What are you afraid of?” My […]

Wow – I’ve reached 200 days of capturing happy moments! Here are the most recent ten days from my #365happydays project (a day later than planned thanks to having tipped a glass of water all over my laptop on Saturday evening, and needing to let it dry out again before I could use it):   […]

I’ve been thinking about suicide a lot recently. Not committing it myself of course I hasten to add, just in case you were worried.  I know I’ve been going through a bit of a low patch recently but I haven’t been so low that that has ever been a possibility.  It’s just been on my mind in […]

The most recent ten days of happiness in my world – part of my 365 Happy Days project:                  

On Saturday I’m heading back down to London for the second time this week in order to attend Questival – The Quest Institute’s biennial conference and I CANNOT WAIT! Firstly, it’s a chance to get together with friends and colleagues that I haven’t seen for a long time, partly due to geographical separation but mainly because of […]