I sit down at the start of every month and write down a few things I'd like to achieve or do over the coming weeks. Last weekend, I was thinking about July, I realised that every set of monthly intentions I've written so far this year has been centred around getting through the month while I was unwell or recovering from surgery.This month, though, they're not.That's when it suddenly dawned on me that, physically, I feel better than I have in well over a year.Looking back, I've spent so much of the last year feeling unwell, waiting for appointments, having surgery and then … [Read more...]

The last six months has been far from ideal but now that I’m feeling so much better, I can appreciate the things that I’ve learned while I’ve not been very well and one thing I’ve really come to understand is that the quiet, calm moments in life are what makes me happiest 😍The run up to moving house was stressful and chaotic and if you add that to the fact I wasn’t well, you can probably imagine what that period of life felt like. And then when we actually moved, with the house being an old Victorian that needs work doing in every room, I had list upon list detailing all of the … [Read more...]

When the kids were younger, I used to really look forward to September when they would go back to school after the Summer holidays because I loved the fresh start that September gave us all. New school year, back to work after time off over the Summer, the change in weather from Summer to my favourite season and the promise of the last few months of the year which happen to be my favourite few months. I always felt super motivated to make positive changes in my life in September and I still get that feeling today so September is still a time for me to make a few changes (even the end of … [Read more...]