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04/08/2025

Trying to open up my super tight shoulders (yet again) using cow faced pose and my trusty yoga strap. I used to avoid props like they were a sign of weakness or something, but it turned out my ego just needed to open up too!

03/08/2025

Sunshine between storms today on my walk to try and clear my mood and clarify my thoughts. Been really lucky this summer to spend time with many of the people who have known me the longest and who I love the best. It’s left me feeling quite anxious and sad today though. Sometimes you don’t realise how much you miss people until you see them, or how much you’ve been carrying until you share the load. It’s been great to laugh, talk, console, reminisce, discuss the past and plan for the future, but it has also dragged up a lot to the surface that I have been busy ignoring and it makes going back to the ‘doing’ and the ‘coping’ with the everyday harder.

25/07/2025

It’s a yoga in your Friday fun pants kind of day 😉. Some sun salutations, twists and heart openers and a few attempts at finding the sweet spot in a yin posture with my bolster and block brought up the idea of adjustment for me today - trying to find the right thing at the right time for the right need. The place between resistance and acceptance, discomfort and release. So much about my body, mind, emotions, practice and life in general has changed and continues to change since I first began to practice. It’s all a constant recalibration of expectations against reality. As in yoga, as in life; I will continue to adjust accordingly.

18/07/2025

Can’t decide if you’re a trees and river or swimming in the sea kind of girl? Move to Moray and you can have both!

17/07/2025

Gorgeous morning at Findhorn attempting to blow some red wine induced cobwebs away. I blame I was clearly a bit over excited to see her again after far too long!

11/07/2025

How I’m looking after body and mind today: a few daily chores instead of the usual weekly frenzied rage clean; taking care of something that has been neglected during term time (today it was cleaning the stains on the carpet!); some good food and some time in the garden instead of being inside all day and eating whatever I have scavenged in the 5 minutes I have left before the bell goes; reading the books that have been slowly accumulating next to the bed all year that I’ve been too tired to read. Today I started this from one of my favourites and am already hooked. Now it’s time for some guilt free Wimbledon watching on the sofa before I head to the pub for a pint in the sunshine. Not even sorry 😉

10/07/2025

Finally felt like rolling my yoga mat out. Must be the holidays! Always have the fear about it when it’s been so long then within 5 breaths always remember a.) how much I love it b.) how the body and mind don’t forget all the years of pathways that have been put down even if I have and c.) how it’s only my own monkey mind that ever stands in my way.

09/07/2025

Week 2 of the summer holidays and Boston and I have escaped to literally and metaphorically cool off from the heat in the woods! The only problem with being a teacher when the long awaited summer holidays come is that you then have to spend all day with your own kids 😂

04/07/2025

Perimenopause is annoying. Here I am all healthy and happy in the sun, but this week’s new ’no you’re not dying, it’s just perimenopause’ symptoms to add to the ever growing list of panicked google searches include prickly heat and palpitations. Apparently 1 in 4 women experience palpitations in menopause but I had no idea. Why don’t they take women aside when they’re in their late 30s - like they did at primary school to tell you about your periods - and give you a heads up about what to expect? Yes I’ve done my reading, been to the doctors, taken my supplements, spoken to the wild women who have walked the path before me, and generally do my best to manage things. Yes I know it’s “just” fluctuating hormones, but that makes it sound like it’s something light and manageable that us lady folk need to stop moaning about, rather than something that makes every day life an unpredictable nightmare. It is currently proving to be physically and emotionally debilitating on a daily basis and it all seems pretty unfair after I’ve worked so hard to get my life to this point and want to reap the rewards. Instead I am frequently found lying in a dark room unable to interact with anyone or riding an emotional rollercoaster that I would quite like to get off. It’s not all day every day, but it is most days for some of the day (and night), and that in itself is exhausting especially when you know it’s going to last a good 10 years. It also rocks your sense of self belief and self worth because if you can’t even trust and respect your own feelings and reactions in the moment how can you ask others to do the same? No wonder depression, su***de and divorce rates all go up in the menopausal woman age bracket. I do not have the answers but I’m sharing the questions in case they echo with anyone else today. Like every other woman before me I’ll get through it, and yes I am privileged to be in a position where this is the worst of my problems, but as always ‘getting through it’ seems to me to be a sad way for women to live their lives.

25/06/2025

Some summer dinners never grow old. Think I got this recipe for halloumi, courgette, tomato and chickpea couscous out of a Good Food magazine when I was at uni and it’s still going strong (many) years later.

10/05/2025

Scotland on a warm day in May is pretty hard to beat. We do our winters long and our summers early!

20/04/2025

A weekend of fresh air, food and family was just what the doctor ordered. Happy Easter 🐣

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