ByAnthony Altman
While I was growing up in South Africa, and experiencing the challenges created by a dysfunctional family, I came to rely heavily on our pet dogs. During the fifteen years I lived in Cape Town, we had had several dogs which became my personal confidants, companions, support mechanism, and best friends. I can honestly say…
ByRobyn Harris
As some of you might know, my ‘other job’ is as a British Sign Language / English interpreter. It’s an amazing role and often teaches me so much that benefits me in my role as a holistic wellbeing coach. One recent example of a crossover learning came from reading the interpreting journal that I subscribe…
ByCatherine Green
The idea of leaving a legacy is partly why I continue to persevere with writing and publishing my novels. I know how proud my children are about the work that I do, and they both enjoy writing their own stories, so they can be authors just like mummy. My husband has just been made redundant…
ByJulia Chi
I have always lived a total lifestyle, one that feels like I am always on holiday… One that therefore I don’t need a break or a ‘holiday’ from… I have always worked and played at the same time, so play can be called work, and work can be play… There is no separation… I have always…
ByGiora Carmi
Discovering who you are is the main issue of life on earth. You can find yourself in many ways and in many places and things. Actually, in every thing. The best way is through doing what you love to do and taking this way as a trip to the depth of who you are. You…
ByGuglielminotti Trivel
I am redoing my website at the moment therefore it is reviewing time for me. Lots of questions come up and the only way to find answers is to look inside and see what surfaces … Sometimes no answer comes up or maybe not immediately, that is fine too, if one knows how to take…
ByJulia Chi
I have just been caught in a strange position on the floor by Fatima our dueña! I am writing in the riad, with luscious plants and a solid, sandy coloured, font like water feature in front of me… It is very tranquil – I am sitting on a velvety golden chair, surrounded by more beautiful…
ByGuglielminotti Trivel
As this month invited us to celebrate mothers I took this opportunity to do a bit of soul searching and thinking about the influence of my mother in my life and the many stereotypes of motherhood. In our Western society these occasions are commercially exploited to the umpteenth degree and it can be difficult to…
ByJulia Chi
We have just come back from wandering in the streets and even doing a little bit of shopping…! Our days seem to find a rhythm wherever we are in the world… Our food changes and the climate changes, the people, the energy of the land, the feel, the texture of our time is different… But…
ByRobyn Harris
I initially wrote this blog early last week, but then something happened on Thursday which prompted me to write this short edit. A friend that I deeply respect, told me that she felt I wasn’t being honest with myself about my responsibility in the situation I find myself with Dax, and that I was placing…
ByGuglielminotti Trivel
I remember how many times I felt inadequate when I was young: at school, with friends, at university, when I was studying as an interpreter, when I started working, etc. At the time what would trigger my feeling of not being enough tended to be a social situation, clothes I would wear, not having a…
ByGuglielminotti Trivel
Life recently has put me in a situation where I had the opportunity to really understand and feel how much gap sometimes there can be between me and another person. Either is with a friend, a family member, a colleague or simply an acquaintance, we might even have met virtually on social media, I am…