Today I said goodbye.
I wrote a card and bought a gift of my favourite book (Siddhartha by Herman Hesse). And I wrote a letter that said something like this…

So I am Here.
I have slept well. I have walked on the cliffs and witnessed the sea. I have eaten well. I have made fleeting contact with strangers. I’ve spoken at length with family from home. I have messaged friends…

I couldn’t find my car this morning . . .
I had a big night last night.
I woke at five in the morning and all the voices rushed in.
Did I listen?
Was I drunk? I should give up alcohol…

I have lots to say around Consent.
I have been an actor/singer my whole life, and an alternative health practitioner specialising in mental health, and the way our emotions can affect our physical health…

It is only safe to engage with the world when you know how to disengage. There is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre called huis-clos – or No Exit. It describes a few people stuck in a room together who can’t get out, a kind of claustrophobic confrontation or stand-off. They…

Money Matters: Money for JAM. Money is not a four-letter word. Only those who have never been without, can say that money isn’t important. To create, a women needs A Room of One’s Own a £5000 a year (Virginia Woolf) These days, 100 years later, I would set that amount…

108 things that I have done to feel better and go back to sleep – that you might find helpful too. The mind, like fire, is a fine servant but a bad master. Train it lovingly like a puppy…