I dug deep recently and found the courage, motivation and energy inside of me to move to beautiful Beara. Having followed an intuitive thread, invisible yet insistent, the change of scene has done me the power of good, and even my little dog Pudsy, despite her disability, seems to have been […]
As children and young people, some of us are very attuned to our surroundings, to gut feelings and hunches, dreams, and so on. But over time, life takes over and this intuitive aspect to us can be dampened down, either by ourselves or others, and is often not encouraged in […]
“You can’t make it perfect. Life has a habit of popping up to remind you of impermanence. Be graceful in letting go, in releasing that perfect dream. Let yourself come gently down to reality, to how it really is and to the constant change that happens whatever we do…” The phrase […]
There is a softness in the air today as I contemplate this month’s topic, soft rain outside and a real feeling of softness inside. Having been lucky enough to have had almost two weeks of heat and rest on holiday with beautiful friends, I am fuelled and resourced with a […]
“One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day”. I spotted two swallows one morning this week, one swooping low near the bridge in Skibbereen and the other on the road to Union Hall. Both filled me with mixed emotions, first a deeply instinctual, primal, sense of joy […]
Can you sense Spring in the air? The promise of it, the feeling of hope it can elicit. Are you aware of a changing energy in your body? A felt sense in the body of playfulness, mischief or maybe even foolishness? We are moving forward with the longer days, brighter […]