I can’t remember the last time I looked in a mirror and loved every single-little-large-gorgeous-thing I could see. I can’t remember the last time I saw a magazine or television show which featured someone with an illness or disability without them looking sad/brave. I can’t remember a time when that doesn’t hurt. I have enough hurt. I want liberation. I want to feel beautiful.  I want to relax within my skin. I want to exhale. I want to shout and celebrate. I want to pick my clothes based on what I feel like wearing. I want to live the shining I feel inside. I want to fly in the face…

“See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence … we need silence to be able to touch souls.” – Mother Theresa of Calcutta Oh, dear-heart do you see? How the next struggles of our world will be not scarcity? The global challenges, summits and politician promises will cease to revolve around poverty. It is the very lack which we are all running from, which we are back lashing against, spinning to escape. This very fearful shortage is even now creating our next pain. We are setting it up right before us.   It is abundance. Always too much,…

Sick Chick to Trail Blazer Conference June: Creating a Conference Space for Women with Chronic illnesses/Caring Roles. Beauty and Health Challenges – the Waist Height and Wearing Conference. :: From Waist Height and Wearing – what it is and how you can get in on the project. :: Standards of beauty and our own self-image with illness and disability. :: Power of our own beauty and self-worth. :: Fashionable Practicalities. :: Guest Speakers Special Guest – Elissa Ashwood of 33Dresses.com speaking about being a cancer survivor in training, a 33 dresses superstar and a fulfilment instigatrix. And more to come… The conference will create community, solidarity, trouble-shoot practical challenges, instigate new realisations and…

Are the glitter miracles just not flowing as they should be? What is responsible for minimising your power and short circuiting your miracles? It’s lack.     Lack of intention and lack of trust. How do we prevent and circumnavigate this? Practice, and I don’t just mean your scales. Make trusting, allowing, surrender into a daily practice. Make intention, desire and determination how you begin your day. If you are busy it really just means that you need this even more. When you begin your day with intentionality then you are sending energy into the world and can watch the world respond to what you send. How, Brown Owl? Set…

* Imagining the sunshine above the clouds. * Music * Being warmer than I am currently, cold is sad. * Gratitude journalling. * Being outside if it is not raining, of course, here it is currently really really raining, hence the sad for many of us! * Actually playing with paints even when I don’t feel like it. * Forgetting the realism and believing in media magic again. * Fairy lights. * Hats – they change the mood. * Dreaming of Paris. * Translating – everything takes a back seat when you are translating. * Poetry. Just poetry. * Planning new things for date night. * Googling all the phrases…