Grateful for this moment. It is peaceful, nothing awful is happening in close proximity, it’s warm enough, and there’s a … More
Category: addiction
Surrendering back into Love
Working away on my irritated reactiveness to noises, noticing that crucial tension point of decision…. ….to ally myself with the … More
Hello again Sadness and Anxiety
How unpredictable life can be ! We never know what life will present us with, or where the next challenge … More
Undoings
Feeling low this morning. Yesterday I had a magnificent woodland walk, lunch at the park cafe….and saw the men on … More
Starving thoughts of Attention
Back at the kitchen table. Another sunny one and quite a lot on today, relatively speaking. A new client at … More
Hungry Ghosts – Addiction Dropping
This is a little personal congratulations and an acknowledgement of something that is of significance to me, and that is … More
Nicotine – having a go at stopping
I haven’t smoked actual cigarettes for about 7 or 8 years but I replaced it with vaping. I think I … More
No added Sugar – Day 2
Since I’m on a roll of tolerating inner disturbance, I’m edging on further. I stopped caffeine a month ago and … More
Encountering the Psychiatric System
Yet another client who is so cognitively impaired by the multiple psychiatric drugs he is on that I’m not sure … More
Hello Wellbeing, and welcome :-)
I have experienced a couple of days of heightened wellbeing. I’m consciously allowing it in, and noticing fears and discomforts … More
Alcohol Free Experiment – Day 51
So my hairdresser challenged me to join her in the 30 day alcohol free experiment going around just now. So … More
You Get What you Feel you Deserve
And that doesn’t apply to being struck by a random childhood disease and the likes. I have noticed how challenging … More
Well and Happy!
After so many many months of daily managing of anxiety, it has subsided for the last few weeks. And wow … More
How to be Happy, even if it Scares you.
And this is one big note-to-self here. I feel fear just writing this post. I’m scared of being happy. There, … More
Ups and Downs
And I keep on falling and picking myself up, falling and crashing and then up and out of these slumps … More
Sameness
Getting to accept this stability, calmness, quiet, aloneness. Drama will appear no doubt, but for now it is lacking though … More
More Peace, less Strain
A few days more have passed of living without my favourite bad habits, alcohol, sugar, overeating and Facebook. And all … More
Hungry Ghosts – Addiction
Today a bit about my personal struggle with unhealthy addictions. I was listening to Tara Brach’s podcast all last week about addictions and … More
Learning to Rest with it All 