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Letting Go(Post)
I like to collect quotes and one of my favourites is this, by Rudyard Kipling. “Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.” It is such a hilarious image but so undoubtedly true; perfect for ...
The Aunties(Post)You know the way Gill gets over excited when she loves something and immediately turns into a happy lunatic? Of course you do. Well, this month I’m going to join her. Not about the cutting-edge healt ...
What Not to Say(Post)Words are powerful. We should not be careless with them; yet we fling them around like so much confetti. My darling dad died last week. I am in pieces but my heart is broken into yet more fragments e ...
I Don’t Know(Post)One of my favourite phrases is “I don’t know”, which might be considered as a form of fantastic stupidity until you consider this. If I say I don’t know, then somebody will tell me what I need to kno ...
Lists(Post)Anybody else out there a lister? Not an A or a B lister (unless it’s buy milk) but every damn letter in the alphabet right down to “take trousers to dry cleaners to get Zipper mended.” I found a list ...
Sarah’s Health Notes: This Book Is Important – Please Read It (Post)I don’t say that lightly. Over the course of my 30+ years writing about health and wellbeing I’ve huffled and puffled my way through skim-reading stacks of ‘personal development’ tomes promising to h ...
The Happiness Factor(Post)Ever wanted to know the exact age of maximum human unhappiness? Economists can be relied upon to translate complex phenomena with unparalleled precision and last week, a US National Bureau of Economi ...
The Importance Of Self Reflection(Post)One of the more extraordinary and wonderful things that happened to me in the last decade was – as some of you already know – appearing as Lauren Laverne’s castaway on Desert Island Discs last summer ...
How To Improve Your Energy(Post)Where to start on an article about energy? I’m referring to the good vibes that flow on a sunny day when everything just clicks into place and turns out better than you might ever have hoped for. It’ ...
The Things I’m Glad My Mother Told Me(Post)I never got round to writing either of my daughters a baby journal, celebrating their first smile, steps or words. As a full-time, working mother, I am lucky to rarely feel “the guilt,” but oddly, no ...
The Power Of The Pause(Post)Two years ago, my life took an almighty pause. All the more almighty for being totally out of the blue. One minute, I was hurling myself at life hell for leather, leaping out of bed before dawn, and ...
Why We Need To Stop Being So Youth Obsessed And Embrace Ageing(Post)“There’s nothing tragic about being 50. Not unless you’re trying to be 25”- Sunset Boulevard. A curious thought struck me the other day. I thought of all the women who genuinely excite me and I real ...