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It Started with ‘Om’(Post)
Of all the experiences I had on my ‘big trip’ to India, staying in an ashram in the remote Himalayas, it was the many hours of chanting which turned out to be the most lasting and transformative. Of ...
Why Wild Swimming Is Worth Your Consideration(Post)There comes a time in every woman’s life where she needs to take her clothes off and get into the water. I’m not talking about taking a bath, I’m talking about the invigorating thrill of slipping in ...
Weekend Read 9 January 2021(Post)As the global situation on the pandemic takes a harsher grip, I welcome you to the Weekend Read knowing that the trauma has deepened and we have to address this as best we can. That said, we have to ...
Owning The Room(Post)If you’d told me as a young woman that one day, I would be able to stand in front of an audience of 14,500 women, deliver a keynote speech and love every single minute of the experience, I’d have lau ...
Weekend Read 13 March 2021(Post)One year of writing weekly. One year of listening. One year of taking your lead. And I am very clear that the single most profound circumstance, in one of the most difficult and heart-wrenching of ...
Under Our Skin – Inner Beauty(Post)For me beauty has always meant beyond the superficial. Of course, we can see it as a commercialised industry – and it is. In 2012 in the UK, we spent nearly £8,438 million on fragrance, make-up, ski ...
Sarah's Health Notes: A Safe Space To Share Your Story(Post)After Lockdown 1, there was a phase when people asked ‘have you had a good lockdown?’ That seems pretty unlikely for anyone suffering with poor mental health but for one person with a diagnosed anxie ...
Sarah’s Health Notes: Supporting People With Dementia(Post)Talking to people with dementia can be a huge strain. I felt inadequate that I didn’t know how to hold a conversation with my father, who was diagnosed with non-Alzheimer’s dementia in 1999, and was ...
Restless Legs Syndrome(Post)Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is a neurological disorder which causes an awkward sensation in the legs along with an uncontrollable desire to move the limbs for relief. This uncomfortable sensation us ...
Sarah’s Health Notes: Music And Memories(Post)Music is one of the most powerful ways of bringing joy and calm to people with dementia and a new free radio station m4dradio.com, from the wonderful charity Music for Dementia, tailors tunes to diff ...
Sarah’s Health Notes: Beating Winter Blues(Post)Trawling articles about winter blues, medically called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or winter depression, I found opinions from psychiatrists saying the condition was a myth or hypochondria. The ...
Weekend Read 5 March 2022(Post)Hello and as I welcome you to this Weekend Read, I just need to say that because I changed the last Weekend Read at the very last minute, I hadn’t read it through properly and I realised, after it ha ...