My week

Where I’ve been this week

What an amazing week.  I’ve been to the Battersea Barge to see gorgeous NATALIE GREEN, a young 22 year old talent that has a powerful voice like LULU with a theatrical twist. She sang ballads, jazz, swing and gospel.   I have known Natalie for many years and I felt bursting with pride as she received a standing ovation.  First of many I feel sure, as she strides towards an amazing future and is next appearing in Godspell at the Union Theatre.

I also attended “What Every Woman Should Know About Successful Relationships”, with Francine Kaye.  She is one of the most experienced relationship coaches in the UK, Francine is the relationship expert for the Channel 5 programme The Wright Stuff appears on The Trisha show and GMTV and is featured in and writes for national magazines, the press and is a guest on national radio. Francine is also the author of The Divorce Doctor published in 2009 by Hay House and Time to Live. Divorced 16 years ago with two small children, Francine has experienced the challenges of an uncertain future as single parent. She has overcome financial adversity and in the past 14 years has transformed her life to become one of the UK’s most successful relationship coaches. Francine says “As a direct result of accepting my new life instead of resisting it, I have regained my identity, healed my heart and learned to love again. Now I am helping others to do the same”

All I can add to this is that I love her passion and charisma!

This coming week



There will be so much energy shifting this week, it may feel a little overwhelming.  It’s the equinox following a super full moon, the year’s biggest energetic vortex as we continue to move forward on our journey of re-birth and re-newal.  Make a commitment to create the highest potential for yourself this month as the energies will support it.

To remove “blocks” or “negativity” to your full potential, book a spiritual response therapy session with me, (90 minutes).  Can be done via email for anyone or anywhere.

Natalie, Sue, Jade and I

The Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

As I look outside and admire the blue sky and spring sunshine, I count my blessings that I have a home and all my family are safe.

I have to blog today about the recent earthquake in Japan because I know that it's on our minds right now as we watch the images of total devastation on tv and learn about 10,000+ people found dead. As I chatted to my daughter this morning it was very difficult for us to take in the vast death toll as it’s as huge as our home town!

This catastrophe could happen to anyone and I feel a twinge of guilt that we go about our daily lives in the same way today as we did on Friday, worrying about such small things.  This gets everything into perspective. Nothing has changed for many of us but everything has changed for them. Are we just lucky or is our turn coming soon?

There have been many earthquakes recently including Chile this weekend and there will be more. Is this the end of the world and will it be taken apart a little piece at a time? Attention has now turned from the earthquake and tsunami to the threat of a nuclear meltdown in Japan's nuclear power plants. Given the recent revival in the use of this as a power source, we are being asked to pause and consider the future results of these choices and make different decisions.

Can we do anything to prevent this and why are some people spared while others become victims of disaster? In reality, no one is spared because whether it is our homes that are destroyed or we are watching it on TV, we are all part of what happens to others as we’re part of the human family. It is heart-wrenching to see the victims and their families as much as if they were our own family because as humans, they are.  We can pray for them and while it feels like so little it’s really a lot.

Compassion vortexes are openings for us to reconnect and remember ourselves as a human family, to remind us that we are all one, from a single Source and all part of each other. When this kind of event happens, we are further reminded to love one another, to have compassion, to be mindful that life is precious, our earthly home is a living being that we must love, honour and protect, that we are most powerful when our hearts beat as one than we can ever be when we use our lives in competition with each other.

Animal friends

I own two dogs.  Bella is a 3 year old Doberman and Vito is a 8 year old large Yorkshire terrier; or maybe a mix of something... we're not quite sure! 

Bella has her name because she is “beautiful” inside and out , but she’s very much a typical dog- she loves chewing bones, playing ball (when she eventually drops it!) and most importantly, eating. Vito has his name after the “Godfather” and he believes he’s in charge! He yapps in the car; at people; when guests arrive and when they leave! But I wouldn't change them for the world.  They're by my side through good times and bad, giving unconditional love.

I love the Irish Proverb “A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied” and this reminded me that most of us have SO MUCH- homes, food, clothes, warmth, light and many many possessions, but we still find even the littlest of things to trouble us. Another person’s opinion doesn’t match our own, so and so hasn't rung me; worrying about the family; discontent with our job; the rain hasn’t stopped all day, we wish we could be on holiday instead of working away all the time etc etc etc...

Bella and Vito don’t go on holiday, they don't care about what other dogs think; they face as much rain as we do, and sometimes they want to do things which we won’t let them do (more than sometimes- quite often in fact!) like eating biscuits constantly or sleeping on the couch when they’re covered in mud, but they wake up every morning, leap on my bed wagging their tails expectantly with a happy expression.

No day is the same, the sniffs in the garden each morning will have changed, and they don’t know where they might go on a walk. Each day is a whole new adventure for a dog; especially on Saturday when Bella cut her back leg in the garden and had to have an emergency visit to the vet, for 3 stitches! The mean looking doberman suddenly was a shivering, fearful animal, wondering what an earth was going on!

Let’s take a few lessons from our animal-friends Another perspective on life is never a bad thing, it helps us to reconsider and define our own thoughts so that they are truer than ever to the right that lies within each of us. Love.



Vito




Bella