I am a list writer. Things I need in my wardrobe, food we need in the cupboards, to-do lists every day. I must have read that if you write it down you will make it happen. Plan the life you want and how you aim to get it and it will happen. But this isContinue reading “Procrastination”
Author Archives: Rani
What do you see?
What do you see? The menacing dark clouds or the beauty of the sun rays tearing through? Or do you see the weeds at the bottom that despite their low position reach tall and grow despite the adversity of not being wanted nor beautiful, reach high and proud to bathe in the sunlight and warmth?Continue reading “What do you see?”
Best Friends
I had a best friend once. She and I had so much in common at the age of 11. Her father was absent, I wished mine was. Her Mum was a resilient matriarch who made everyone feel welcome. Everyone was welcome at her small, damp and basic house; built before the freeway that roared trafficContinue reading “Best Friends”
Consumer Nutritional Experts
Women are experts. We shop for our families, we devotedly list every food we eat on MyFitnessPal when we have hit that ‘rock bottom’ of weight gain. And so we are, without doubt, consumer nutritional experts. What woman doesn’t know that cake and bread are ‘bad’ carbs and that brown rice and wholegrains are bothContinue reading “Consumer Nutritional Experts”
Exam Stress Time
Why are school children still judged on their English Maths and Science grades – who decided this? Why and when? I love this letter from a Headteacher to his student’s parents. There is so much depression and anxiety amongst our teens that exam scheduling and methods seem to be so antiquated, stressful and cruel. Isn’tContinue reading “Exam Stress Time”
Yes I Can
Opportunities rarely just come along. We create them. By putting ourselves out of the comfort zone and taking a moment to allow opportunity in … it really does just happen. Faith in our own ability waivers so badly. As women we are born questioning our own selves: can I? Am I? Why me? I haveContinue reading “Yes I Can”
Mindful Body Check
Do you ever do a mindful body check? I do this at the end of teaching a Seated Strength & Stability classes for Seniors asking ‘if we don’t know how each part of our body feels right now, then how can we know if it is better or worse than last time?’. Take some timeContinue reading “Mindful Body Check”
Vital Ingredients to my Recipe of Life
I have recently seen the same GP a number of times for insomnia, which, ironies of ironies, is caused by stress and causes me more stress (go figure). She rarely takeS the time to look me in the eye, and the last time I visited she walked ahead of me into her office without holdingContinue reading “Vital Ingredients to my Recipe of Life”
What do you to clear your head?
I live in a flat and have done for nearly two years. I can see outside, I can step on to a balcony. I can hear, smell and see the town. But it does not bring me peace. For all of us it is something different. A couple of years ago I hugged a treeContinue reading “What do you to clear your head?”
