Acceptance

It Was Never Just A Colour

Pink has always been my favourite colour. But for decades, paradoxically, it wasn’t. At some point in my childhood, I chose a different one. At the time, I didn’t realise

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When Trust Is Present

Scrolling through the blog archive, I came across an entry called It’s What You Say, Not How You Say It. It addresses a small element of a much broader experience

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Beyond Caring

I recorded the second episode of the Tile9 podcast this week. In each episode I read from my book, stopping to relate the entries to all Nine Tiles. During the

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One Instruction: Let Go

This post is an intriguing example of what happens when you let go. It reaffirms the old issues of how easily the mind can dominate; how convinced we can be

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Courage In The Darkness

Whenever I see something growing through a crack in the pavement, I remark on life’s incredible ability to flourish in places you might not expect. That thought occurred to me

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Astonishingly Simple

Standing on my head, looking across the room at the empty wall, I wondered whether I might put a poster there, upside down, to remind me of a few simple

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It Is What It Is

In 2001, during my recovery from back surgery, the physiotherapist explained, ‘You will have good days and you will have bad days. On your good days, don’t overdo it!’ There

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We Think We Know

We think we know, but we don’t. We think we have a good idea of how life should be – our own life, other people’s lives, life in general –

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Back Again, But Different

There’s a glorious moment of not-knowing first thing in the morning. Just on the edge of wakefulness, as consciousness beckons, life takes a deep, silent breath and waits. In that

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Life Is Unimaginably Large

Everyone at some point in their life – whether out of desperation or curiosity – has wondered about the meaning or purpose of life. It’s the biggest question there is;

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