What I am starting to realise after one of the most challenging years of my life for myself, my friends and my family, is that the waves will keep coming, but I can learn to surf. I realise that it takes practice and training but with ongoing, sustained practice I can learn how to respond healthily to stress. We can't avoid stress, it's a part of life. But I can change how I respond to it. My default to stress was to run away from it, avoid it as much as possible. Sounds p

‘for anyone who ever felt their periods were divorced from nature or was made to feel shame for such a natural process’ - The Festive Period, by Karen Zipkas 2020 As the saying goes – ‘You are a child of the universe, no less than the moon and stars’. (This is literally true, with the stuff of our bodies once being part of the stars.) But it doesn’t always feel like it. No matter how hard we work on cultivating inner and outer health, sometimes the world, our experiences, oth