January, 2023 – Happy New Year

Resolutions: To continue to mind my own business.  I’ve been practising this for some years now and it is extremely liberating.  Only get involved in other people’s business when I’ve been invited to do so.  That doesn’t mean not being concerned for other people.  I can still look out for people, be aware of them …

Podcast in April ’22 with LoveSober

Link to a thoroughly enjoyable chat I had with Kate Baily from LoveSober, an AF resource set up for women and run by Kate and Mandy, providing support and guidance for the newly sober and the sober curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=237kDd3YAnE&t=826s

Inhabiting the body – Meditation

Most of the time we live in the mind, which is made up of everything that has ever happened to us throughout our incarnation on the planet. This has been likened to having a large house of several stories and inhabiting one little private room in the loft. This meditation takes you into your body, …

GROUNDHOG DAY

Yesterday (2nd February) was Candlemas for some of us, and Groundhog Day for others. I received this email from Seth Godin, a marketing guru with a mindfulness/spiritual approach to life: "Every day is the same if you let it. Of course, spiders, dogs and walruses prefer if the world doesn’t change. But humans are different. …

Hello and Happy 2022

https://youtu.be/OXM5gxLlHhI

DRY JANUARY 2022

The word “dry” is unappealing isn’t it?  Arid, featureless, desert.  We’ve seen way too much of this sort of thing in the past couple of years. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Here’s the good news, you can call it what you like.  Dry is just a word that has become associated with not drinking alcohol.  …

What brought me to Soberistas, Part II

This second part of what brought me to Soberistas turns out to be the most difficult to write.  I had assembled all of the ingredients for the life I hadn’t even dreamt of yet, the makings of a dream that was still in gestation.  At the point when I met my husband (of 33 years …

Be gentle with yourself

We say this often to people who have had a relapse and are back to day one, we say “be gentle with yourself”.  One of the reasons for this piece of advice is that, if you beat yourself up and focus your energy on how ashamed you feel, what a weak person you are, a …

No-one Escapes the Wilderness …

"No-one escapes the wilderness on their way to the promised land." [Annie Dillard]   I have been seeking for a long time now to speak (write) in my "authentic voice" . This is something I picked up from listening to talks aimed at discovering your "real self" and I took my authentic voice to be …

Learning to love yourself …

"Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all." (Michael Hasser, performed by George Benson, 1977 and Whitney Houston (1985).     “There’s nothing you can do than can’t be done, Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung, Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game, It’s easy …