Category: Tough Times

Using Movement & Food to Lift Your Mood During Lockdown
When we feel low, moving our body and eating for nutrition are two of the simplest, most beneficial practices we can commit to. They’re also often the most challenging.

Lonely, Isolated, Alone? Move Through All The Feelings
If there’s anything I know first-hand, it’s tried and tested ways to do being alone well.

Appreciation: The Key to Fulfilment & the Path Through Pain
Showing appreciation, being thankful and having an attitude of gratitude are features we increasingly see on wellbeing and personal development sites. It’s borderline #trending but why do we need to be reminded to say thank you – aren’t we all already doing so?

The Four Creatures Of Wanting
At the beginning of Lent this year, I decided to take a break from alcohol.

Surviving Separation
Seven years ago this week, my daughter and I left our family home and life as we knew it and started over, just the two of us.

This Is The Cost Of What You Want Most
It’s what makes the best novels great, the most captivating movies sell-out, the scenario in which the main character must pay the unthinkable cost for what they most desire. You lean in, hoping they don’t choose the option that means if the same were true for you in your current situation you’d be screwed.

8 Powerful Practices For Surviving Uncertain Seasons
Have you ever had the feeling you’re on the cusp of something new but there are no clear signs as to what that ‘something’ is?

What would it take for you to feel OK?
Have you ever considered how many things need to be ‘just so’ in order for you to feel you’re having a good day? Is it you have a long list, or does it not really take that much?

How to BE in the moments you don’t want
Have you ever been in one of those situations where your body was there as your representative but that was about it. You were there in person but completely absent inside? It could’ve been a one-off event you endured or maybe it was a more painful experience which lasted a few weeks or even years.

When change screws with the balance of life
Have you had seasons in life when everything went just as you thought it should? Perhaps it was something you planned which worked out really well, or maybe it wasn’t even that deliberate – life just bobbed along nicely for a while… Aren’t those times great?!

When the struggle is real
When Adele collected her third Brit Award, we saw her ‘have a moment’. Struggling through tears, she said, “I got really lost for a while… and I didn’t know if I’d come back”. The global, best-selling, multi-award-winning success of the record album that is ’25’ was almost never made, and the world would never have known about it.