So, each year mothers day comes around and a flurry of activity takes place to celebrate the role, to say thank you to all of those mums who are there for their children no matter what, for the sacrifices they make each day and for the unconditional love they give…

The first book I read by Johann Hari was called ‘Lost Connections’ and it was life changing for me. He offered the most deeply researched, alternative and logical insights and solutions to our mental health crisis, that I had ever read before and by doing so, he helped empower me…

There are two things that attract me to Charles Bukowski (and several that don’t it has to be said, but let’s focus on the positives here): 1. He was completely and utterly unapologetically himself, which took some doing as he had some pretty undesirable traits, but I do love the…

I often see things on social media that enrage me — I try not to respond to them in the moment, because if I do my energy gets sucked down to the level of sh*t that I am reading and I end up using the word f*ck far more than…

Grief is our lifelong companion — she is beautiful and complex, teaching us all there is to know about love, loss and living a life that reaches beyond any human transactions, to that of a soulful existence that no death can take away. Grief arrives with our birth, for each…

There are approx. 5.87 million women of pre/menopausal age working in the UK. And the latest studies show that over a million have either quit their jobs, or are thinking of doing so. That’s a serious amount of brainpower, experience, knowledge and diversity being lost. Indeed, I am one of…

Prologue I have edited and pondered whether to publish this blog for many days now and the reason for this is despite my commitment to myself and others to always ‘show up and own up’, even I have wobbled at sharing such intimate and dark thoughts, for fear of judgement, prejudice…

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Charles W. Eliot We are losing the ability to read, really read. To escape into another world and become so deeply engrossed that we simply cannot…