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Drawing on Art This month I was lucky enough to go to the south of France for a 6 day art course. Our main focus (apart from eating) was lino cutting. The picture is some of our efforts, mine is middle bottom row. This illustrates something about my relationship with drawing. It’s always uneasy and a bit of a trauma and has been since an encounter with … Read More

When did you last feel suspended in a hammock of happiness? Where were you, what were you doing or not doing?  You know the feeling where you feel part of everything caught in the warp and weft of life. Almost timeless, you are pervaded with a complete and utter happiness and content with the world. What are you thinking as you read this?  … Read More

I walk regularly, mostly a quick trot around the village in the morning. I usually go early and the time I go will dictate who I see. 7am or before (not often 🙂 ) practically no-one, after 8am dog walkers and the early visitors to the local shop. There are several regular walkers like myself who don’t have dogs and I am … Read More

Building from WithinInto something rich and strange? As you know from today I have moved my practice back to where I used to work previously. Although then I ran the practice and well as working as an osteopath.Mercifully, now I only have to work as an osteopath. I don’t know what is happening in the stars this week but my yoga class has ended, … Read More

One Step Beyond I often see clients who are in pain or discomfort and they have no idea why; nothing seems to have changed in their lives, no injuries/accidents, illness or sudden increase in stress. It’s really frustrating!  We can cope with things better when we understand what is happening or at least have some notion of why. It is really easy in these … Read More

One Enchanted Evening A couple of weeks ago I was in London for a conference with Liz Gilbert (author of Eat,Pray,Love amongst other things). The venue was the Royal Geographic Society, a building at the top of Exhibition Road in South Kensington. This is one of my favourite places in London; the RGS is a lovely, light and graceful Victorian building. Big enough … Read More

What are your intentions? If you have ever read a Victorian novel you may be familiar with a young man being asked “What are your intentions?” Usually in relation to a naive young lady who will go into a decline if he has no fixed intention to marry her. I had a birthday last month and there is something about approaching a decade change … Read More

Growing Pains How many of you have had children who have been given the fairly unscientific diagnosis of growing pains? A fair proportion of you I would imagine. Non-specific aches that don’t really seem to be connected to anything (other than wanting a day off school!) I started to consider growing pains mainly because I had an attack of global achyness last week. It was … Read More

Spending Time As you know I engaged on a life coaching course and one of the things we do is coach each other. I was saying to a fellow student that I can get very rigid about how I manage my time. I feel as if I am in a box with lots of compartments each allocated to some task or other. It … Read More

Symptom Free? During the holiday week I developed a stiff and painful back (physician heal thyself!). Naturally I have given some thought as to why, there was no incident or injury.  I had a wonderful week with friends and family; which also involved more sitting than usual (pantomime and a play); couple of long drives, plus eating differently, a little alcohol and later … Read More

What would the world be once bereft,Of wet and wildness?Let them be left, O let them be left,wildness and wet;Long live the leaves and the wilderness yet.Gerard Manley Hopkins I have been lucky enough to be staying in the depths of Devon for a few days. This morning was a particularly beautiful one; frosty, cold and sunny. A mixture of fields covered in … Read More

Circles of Life In the west we tend to see things in a very linear ways; you go to school, pass your exams, maybe go to university, get a job. You start at basic level in your work, you learn new skills and make your way upwards.You date and gradually find your life partner, eventually you may settle down together.  All very satisfying. But … Read More