January 26, 2019
When I was young I wanted to be an actor. I dreamed of going to drama school and living a life in which I could permanently be someone else, a fact which was part of the motivation and the problem which prevented it from happening. Sometimes I have regretted the decisions I made. Predictably others […]
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January 20, 2019
Marie Kondo, author of the endearing and practical guide to de-cluttering your life, “The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying”, has a new series on Netflix. But somehow the commercialisation of simplicity makes it complicated. For someone who built a reputation on minimalism, she has become annoyingly difficult to get rid of. Then Mary Oliver died. The […]
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January 13, 2019
Waiting for a train, someone once asked me how, as a therapist, I deal with emotional disturbance in my own life. I replied that I generally have a good idea about what I need to do, but that it doesn’t necessarily mean I do it. When the human and the professional collide there is usually […]
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January 6, 2019
The Christmas tree is beginning to show signs of age despite my continuing ritual of emerging from the gloom in the early morning and switching on the fairy lights before the kettle. As we rose from our heavy festive slumber and returned to work this week my phone and email worked a little harder than […]
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December 29, 2018
These days between Christmas and New Year are the ones I find more peaceful and nourishing than almost any other. Something is at an end and nothing has yet begun. It is now that I try to create simplicity. Stripping away, recycling, disposing of. Establishing order where none previously existed in preparation for another year. […]
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