• Trailblazer Interview: Sue Ross, Strokes & Achieving Results No Matter Your Circumstances

    Sue Ross, the founder of Lifegeta, is a pretty fabulous woman. Sue is a fellow UnLtd Award Winner and is changing the lives of people struggling with an acquired disability every day. She won the National Life After Stroke Award for Courage from The Stroke Association and speaks at the UK Stroke Assembly and other conferences.  In this Trailblazer Interview we talk about: – Sue’s experience with acquired disability via a stroke – Working with your emotions during challenging times – Why a jumper can be your top tool for joy!

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    Your Fraying Edges and How to Hem. Reflections on Money.

    There is society in England called “The Society for the Assistance of Ladies in Reduced Circumstances”.  Really. They do wonderful work, often with women asylum seekers nowadays, but any woman, living alone, without other income can apply to them for payments and help with buying appliances or big bills. I was reading a book recently called ” Lovely Things to Make for Girls of Slender Means”. Based on the novel Girls of Slender Means “For the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years, who are obliged to live apart from their Families in order to follow an Occupation in London”.  …

  • The Adventuress Manifesto.

    This will be your only warning. A wake up call to live now, live loud and celebrate your life. Do it now, or perhaps you won’t wake up from the next one. Life has a way of getting our attention, but when we don’t listen and the alarms just get stronger….we don’t always come back from them. It is not my job to shake your from your stupor. I shook off mine.  <Let this be your call to action. You are alive, now. You can read this, now. You have access to a computer to be here now. A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back. You have been…