ancestral wisdom

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?
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
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 […]
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
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 […]