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April 26, 2025
Making a Decision - Why More Time Might Be All You Need

If you're feeling overwhelmed about a decision you have to make what about trying something different. Why not have a listen to this poem, or even better go out into nature and do what I did and observe a landscape and notice how much more you observe over time and then apply that insight to […]

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March 21, 2025
Hey Confidence, Where Have You Gone?

If you're struggling with your confidence I thought I'd share this poem for world poetry day - see what you think and do let me know what insight you get from it. Hey confidence, where have you goneI need you nowDon't turn wayDon't run in the opposite direction just when I need you Hey you, […]

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November 15, 2024
How to love and accept yourself (poetic insight)

Here's my poem I reclaim all my parts inviting you to love and accept yourself I reclaim all of my partsThe parts I’ve lost along the wayThe parts whose existence I’ve deniedThe hidden partsThe unacknowledged and unappreciated partsThe forgotten partsThe parts I’ve found it hard to loveI reclaim all of my partsI give breath to […]

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November 9, 2024
If your life was a landscape

In this video I ask you consider what landscape represents your life and how that insight may help when you're struggling - If you like this poem and the use of nature to help provide insight on situations or problems in your life I'd really love and appreciate a subscribe over on YouTube - thank […]

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October 30, 2024
Time for a change (pushing the same boulder up the same hill?)

If the daily grind is getting to you, you’re stuck in a rut with every day feeling the same, if life feels like hard work and joyless and you want to break free of the daily struggle this metaphorical and poetic exploration of “pushing the same boulder up the same hill” may provide some insight […]

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April 9, 2021
Work's mental - the nature of workplace wellbeing

On 20th May I facilitated a workshop for Headtorch on the subject of “Paths & destinations – how to get from where you are to where you want to be for your wellbeing” using my poem paths and destinations as the basis for the exploration. You can find the recording of that session here. Here's what […]

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March 14, 2021
The Earth cried the day the mist set in

The challenge back in 2015 was set by Visual Verse and was to use one picture, and to write less than 500 words in less than an hour. On Mothering Sunday here in the UK here's what I wrote then about mother earth using a collage I'd recently developed as its inspiration. The Earth cried the day […]

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February 14, 2021
The Wave

The wave had traveled the globe in search of something more than the life it had. Surely there must be more to life than rising and falling and being dictated to by the bright glowing circle in the sky. It had tried to ask other waves if they felt the same, but they never stayed around long […]

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