ancestral wisdom

Tune In and Wake up!

Tune In and Wake up!

Am sitting in my mum’s cute maisonette as the headline “Activists Accuse Farm Club of Speciesism” leaps out of the Saturday newspaper cutting through the pulsing vocal throb of love longing and lost from the radio in the lounge and more plaintive human wailing of love loss longing and desire from the radio in the kitchen, “Senorita… I love it when you call me Senorita….” “When your body has had enough of me….” “When you are in Love with a beautiful woman….” “I’m in love with the shape of you”

Who is Herb Robert?

Who is Herb Robert?

Hello dear friends, I had a serious blip in March (alcohol poisoning from too much free champagne at the Savoy Hotel – I kid you not dear reader) that took me off track and impacted quite extremely on my mind body and spirit throughout most of April. I was pretty depressed and lost sight of […]

2019 Has Fully Arrived

2019 Has Fully Arrived

  The capacity for illness to render time nonfunctional is powerful business at the best of times. A time out of time where the markers of human existence warp, become half speed, double speed or just suspended animation in the context of body functions. At the end of last year looked like history was going […]

Connection As The Key To A Healthy Life

Connection As The Key To A Healthy Life

  I have a new drum. This is a drum I made, with the guidance and help of two dear friends to be used for trance and otherworld travelling purposes. A shamanic drum if you like. My daily practice – its been three weeks now – with it renders a plethora of sounds, intervals, tones, […]

The Psychology Of Persistence. How to Survive and Thrive

How to have persistence in the face of adversity is a question I am often asked about. How do you maintain your unwavering belief when things you do don’t seem to work or you fail at them? This question whilst relevant in all areas of life seems particular fraught around the subject of cancer, or living […]

Cleavers Time Again

Cleavers Time Again

Once more the wheel turns and my garden is bursting with bluebells, violets and lilac. The lush blues and purples enticing me out to play and discover the baby nettles that make the best nettle soup, the beginnings of Herb Robert and of course the most prolific greenery of cleavers. I cannot think or see cleavers […]

How To Deal With Negative Thoughts When You Are Ill.

  It is the truly the season of the lurge! I came down with flu on December 25th 2017. After 2 weeks in bed and a week recovering I thought I was done! Went to the gym, got a sauna, made a daily exercise plan, relieved that I could now get back to oxygenating my […]

2018 Swimming In Source

  For some people the phrase “they fought a lengthy and courageous battle with illness” implies a journey of many years navigating cancer, the treatments, timelines and pharmaceutical helpers. When I die, which I hope will be in some 30 years time I would hope that sentence will no longer be applicable to me but […]

What To Do When Taking Down A Tumour?

What To Do When Taking Down A Tumour?

  If you see me, you will see that I have lost a stone and a half, but I have to say I am feeling better than I have done for years. Physically and mentally. Working. I have a good feeling and a quiet glow. I don’t know if that is because I have been […]

Holding It Together. Hope In The Darkness.

New Years Eve 2004 I felt ill.                                                                                                 […]