Category: Inspiration for Life
Food/Recipes

In Search of Balance

I have never been very good at doing things in moderation.  I am an all-or-nothing-kind-of-gal!  If there are chocolates in the house, they get eaten.  If the bottle of wine is opened, it gets drunk.  If I fall in love, I jump in with both feet.  You get the picture!  I have a pretty addictive personality and, up until recently, the only way I could really manage my addictions was with abstinence.  But, for me, living a good life is really all about finding and keeping my balance. How to do that when surrounded by so much temptation?

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February 10, 2018 2 Comments
Inspiration for Life

A Shift in Perspective

The practice of acceptance has been hugely transformative in my life over the last decade.  The beauty of this process of acceptance is that you can apply it to any aspect of your life with which you wish to make peace. 

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January 21, 2018 2 Comments
Garden

Home Sweet Home!

After 6 months looking and 3 months extremely focused and intensive (15 hours per week) house-hunting we have finally bought our new home in the Dordogne!  Voilà ‘La Girouette’…

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December 30, 2017 2 Comments
Inspiration for Life

Avoiding the Void

As I sit here in my dressing gown in front of the fire, loaded with a nasty cold, surrounded by used tissues and with the rain pouring down outside this Sunday morning, it would be easy to start to feel a little sorry for myself.

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December 17, 2017 6 Comments
Inspiration for Life

New life, same old me!

It is so easy to think that you will be fundamentally changed as a human being just because you make a big life change like moving to another country, ending a relationship or changing a job.  However, of course, just because the external circumstances of your life are different does not mean that you are different.

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September 9, 2017 2 Comments
General

The Freedom of Simplicity

We have now been on the road for one week and are gradually settling into our temporarily nomadic lifestyle.  So far we have spent nights

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September 1, 2017 No Comments
Inspiration for Life

Happy Birthday to Me!

A bit like when I started writing this blog, I have a big blank page in front of me and I can make the next seven year cycle into whatever I choose.

So, what will it be?  What will I create now?  What next?

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August 30, 2017 4 Comments
Inspiration for Life

Chaos and Reorganisation

I have had to keep reminding myself that chaos always precedes reorganisation.  Everything has to go to a point of chaos before it can reorganise at a new, higher level and that is exactly what is happening in my life right now.  But chaos is not comfortable and I am not so good with it. 

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August 28, 2017 2 Comments
Inspiration for Life

This could be my last day

When I become very conscious of this fact – that everything passes, nothing is permanent and this could be my last time – then my present moment becomes much more vivid and much more alive.  Because I want to remember it.  

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August 15, 2017 6 Comments
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