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So we have survived the first weekend in the coronavirus lockdown here in the UK. How did you survive? How are you finding things?

I ventured out to the shops for the first time in a week. What an experience... Really positive at our local Aldi, and really grim at the local Co-op!

I'm not normally one to 'name and shame' but this really demonstrates the...

So here we are at the end of the first week in lockdown in the UK.

What have we learnt? How have we found the experience?

As we head towards our first weekend of Stay Home will the weekend feel different to the last few days, or do the days now merge into one long experience - a bit like being on holiday...

It has been marginally more positive for me. I...

The coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the globe and here in the UK, Monday 23rd March saw the announcement that we would be in "lockdown' for the next 21 days.

The reality of this has been such a rollercoaster of emotions...

Most employees were being encouraged to work from home (wfh in corporate diary speak ;)) from Monday the 16th March. Schools...

With all the news and media attention on the coronavirus covid-19, it is easy to spend too much time worrying and stressing about the 'what if'.

Our bodies are amazing instruments that work continuously to support us and maintain a state of health - mental, emotional and physical - despite all the abuse that we throw at it...

Now, more than ever, we need...

12 / 12 / 2019 and the final Full Moon of this decade of 'the teens'.

A perfect time to pause and reflect on what this last year and the last decade has provided for us.

Where to start…

So many thoughts in my head and so much I want to say!

This week, in the UK, it is National Work Life Week and Dyslexia Awareness Week, as well as National Curry Week, National Arthritis Week, National Dyspraxia Week, BackCare Awareness Week, National Braille Week. Monthly it is Seed Gathering Season, National Disability Employment...

As people we all need people. We need to connect. To effectively reach and meet with another soul. To interact. To communicate verbally, visually, spiritually. To share. To believe. To be heard. 

Communicate - to share or exchange ideas, news or information 

But sometimes we also need to ‘go quiet’ and just ‘be’. 

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Call it fallow time like Bonnie Tsui has in a recent New York Times article, or Thrive Time like they do at Thrive Global, taking time out to rest, recover and re-energise is key to success.

It is something we would ordinarily do naturally if living in tune with the cycles of the seasons. Shorter days in winter are the time where we should be doing less,...