Self-Help: For The Truly F*cked Up … Or The Vaguely Discontent?
It’s so embarrassing to admit I need help….. Well that’s the position of anyone remotely ‘normal’ confessing that life isn’t turning out quite as expected. We feel lost, our love lives are ‘complicated’ our heads stressed, our hearts disappointed and our work meaningless (or so it seems on Blue Monday 17th January). So why are we … Read more
Marianne Williamson: A Return To Love
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate….. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your … Read more
Frankly, I Do Give a Damn (via Confessions of a Love Addict)
Love, relationships and feelings don’t fall into tidy boxes. They’re messy, marvellous, distressing and delightful at the same time. Love is complicated, too complicated at times …. but as a self confessed romance junkie I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love this post on ‘Giving a Damn’ – a small reminder that one … Read more
W.E. Henley; Invictus
Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath … Read more
Rudyard Kipling’s IF … (or mettle detector)
IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being … Read more
