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Happy New Year
Received this Happiness Calendar for January which I’m going to try and follow. Thought I’d spread happiness by sharing the link to it here too! Let me know how you go with the challenge x Here’s to a happy and healthy new year xx https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/happiness_calendar/ic
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2022
2022 was the year we moved and climbed mountains. It was the year we climbed the tallest mountain in the UK. It was the year that the mountains moved and we finally got the ASD diagnosis after many meetings, appointments and letters during a two year wait on the (deliberately underfunded by the Government) NHS.…
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Winter Solstice Vibes
I started writing this post for Black Friday- something that didn’t even exist in this country ten years ago – a day dedicated to ramping consumption, consumption of products designed to be obsolete by the following year’s Black Friday – but alas procrastination set in and I never finished it. But here we are six…
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Short listed
Very pleased to share that I was short listed for The Royal Society of Literature Sky Arts Awards for Playwriting 2022! This year has been such a rollercoaster for my writing journey (and life) that I haven’t really taken a moment to take stock and give thanks for all the opportunities and lessons. Since gaining…
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Morons
The current module on my course talks of the importance of NVC – Non- Violent Communication when holding conversations with people of differing views. There are four stages to NVC communication: 1) Making observations 2) Describing feelings 3) Identifying needs 4) Making requests So for example, instead of projecting what you are feeling onto what…
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Empathy
So I have been completing a course with Berkely Greater Good Science Centre (Might as well make use of insomnia). In one module, I was asked to complete the empathy test below: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/embed/empathy The summary of my results included suggestions on how to be more empathetic. Rather than swimming in neurosis on whether the tips…
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Truss Us
She is appalling. And Kwasi. Oh Kwasi. He is appalling too. But have you noticed the relative ease the media has had at pointing this out? Where was this energy with Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson? The man who broke his own law and partied as people died. Literally. 330k deaths from austerity, 208k Covid.…
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Long live the people
In the trenches of blighty, the enforced mourning is exhausting. Across billboards and headlines we are told that we must feel deeply devastated about the death of an elderly women who lived a very long, comfortable and privileged life at the expense of the general public. For those of us in genpop who are generally…
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She’s a good sport
With the England women’s football team making headlines for winning the Euros there is much talk of how to nurture and encourage girls to play football. I was reminded of a recent poetry submission I wrote for a BHM television special celebrating black sports personalities. Part of the submission included answering if any sporting heroes…
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60km 60days
❤️💥We did it! Skating 60km in (a lot less than) 60 days! My legs are absolutely exhausted and I’m done with skating (for a while at least lol) but my heart is full of pride and gratitude! Big up bubs who skated his heart out and clocked up the KMs and thank you to every…
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Bridge
a meeting point between two borders a chance a hope a tipping point up in flames or over turbulent waters a starting point a chance a hope a bridge
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Probably Autistic
I’ve had to say that phrase quite a lot over the past couple of years. Whilst my son attended nursery school the possibility was raised that he may be on the Autistic Spectrum. He had advanced verbal skills but other traits suggested that he may have ASD. As time progressed it became more evident that…
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