• Get Connected! With the World At Large…and Our “Secret” Vlog

    Have you seen my Wellness Provocateur Vlog? If not, what are you waiting for? Check it out. (You’ll be glad you did!) But I’ve got a secret. Vlog, that is. And it hasn’t been public…until now. It’s the L & B WALK VLOG! You see, Linus and Bertie go for a walk every day, and although we love our wheelchair ride adventures, I can’t always go with them. Not wanting me to miss out on this very special time, Linus created the L & B Walk Vlogs to share the joy. And there is so much joy to be had out and about with my husband and pup! Seeing the…

  • Trailblazer Interview: Christina Rasmussen & Falling Away Then Finding a Way

    To know illness is, unquestionably, to know loss. It’s not easy. It hurts. And yet… I lost a future (but I gained a new path). I lost friends (and found a Trailblazing sisterhood). I lost possibilities (then created new ones). It might look like things falling away but it can feel so much more visceral than that – like the people, dreams and self-images have been wrenched, painfully from us. Being forced into a new ‘sick chick’ identity can seem an all encompassing, dangerous trap with no perceived way out. But there are ways. And people who can help. Christina Rasmussen is one of them. The founder of Second Firsts, a global…

  • The Desire Map Book Club

    So excited to share with you all that I’ll be leading a Desire Map book club event as part of Danielle LaPorte’s World’s Biggest Book Club! The event will be held on Friday 31st Jan at Newport Clinic of Holistic Health and I’d love for you to join me! We’ll be opening up some dialogue — from the sacredness to the practicalities of core desired feelings, goal setting, gratitude as a practice… wishes for the New Year – and it would be great to have you be a part of that. If you’d like to get a feel for what Danielle’s message is all about, you can check out her…

  • A Hundred Thousand Dreams

    This Earth, all its birdsong, orchids, teacups, and toffee is already a living paradise. Perhaps we incarnate to experience sheer joy. For ourselves and for the Divine. After all, God/dess cannot run through a field, play with a puppy, paddle in the sea, enjoy a foot rub, savour freshly picked broad beans or make love. But we can. And through us, God/dess feels the delight. We need to feel joy so the Divine can experience these treasures. The world is meant to be beautiful. It is beautiful. In the Celtic traditions the world has good and bad equally alike; where curses are blessings and the bitter pain gives life its piquant sweetness. I cannot…

  • Changing and Loving Yourself… At The Same Time

      Changes often begin with dissatisfaction. You’re tired of struggling. You need to get fit. You want to stop doing that and start doing this. Ideally, this dissatisfaction spurs the positive changes needed to move things to a new, better place. But what happens when you are dissatisfied with your body, your whole body? When you love your body already, but due to chronic or severe illness, your control over actually changing that which is causing you such distress is something that is out of your control? When getting up and working out isn’t actually an option for you, no matter how many Pinterest boards claim “disability is just an…