Category " Personal Development"

Every year for as long as I can remember I have written a Christmas card list and sent many cards to family, friends, neighbours, etc. 2011 has been an ‘incredible’ year. Losing Clive so suddenly has changed me and my life in so many ways. I have done things that I never expected and had […]

Isn’t it strange how ‘life’ seems to bring us events in 3’s? How often are we in danger of a couple of things going ‘wrong’ and then we almost expect a third? We then anticipate the prediction which so often happens and we are then in danger of letting everything else drag us down! I […]

Last week when I posted about the fact I was moving out of the home I shared with Clive back to be near my family, I concluded by posing the question about making each day count. Clive often spoke about how we ‘only have today’. Losing him so suddenly really woke me up to that. One […]

Regular readers of my blog will have noticed that I am not writing as much as I did earlier in the year after we lost Clive. I guess I used the September holiday with my parents as a significant turning point as after those dates (which would have been when Clive and I were on a cruise), […]

My regular readers will know that I am a very kinaesthetic person and find great pleasure in the senses! Last week I had several such experiences. In recent years I have been honoured to speak at The Samaritans national conference, held in York. As a result I have then been invited to address other locally-based […]