On becoming a trainer
Towards the end of 2024 I was awarded the honour of becoming a Hakomi trainer! This feels such a precious experience to me and my amazing trainers and mentors Vicky and Trudy came to Liverpool to celebrate and we went to my favourite restaurant to eat and share together. Last month I joined with other […]
Deep space
Following on from the last article, I wrote the following in December 2022, continuing with the theme of space and rest… I wrote an article back in March 2021 on space being perhaps the first frontier we need to travel to, rather than the ‘final frontier’ as referenced by Star Trek (you can read the […]
Space… the final frontier
This piece was originally written in March 2021. Three years on and I seem to have developed some digestive reactivity around gluten which is a sad development for someone who loves bread the way I do! I also still have difficulty with taking time to rest, although I continue to schedule regular breaks and have […]
The Death of George Floyd
I originally posted this after the murder of George Floyd in June 2020 (he died on the 25th May 2020). He was at the time the same age as I am now. It seems like such a pivotal point for many, including myself, in our journey around awareness of race and privilege. Since then it […]
Bilbao 2019: A time of transformation
This blog article was originally written after a wonderful experience in Bilbao in September 2019 with the international Hakomi conference. Reading back over it is moving, especially the poem. To re-remember that experience and how it felt to be with people I know well and others I didn’t know at all and yet felt familiar […]
Finding help
This article was originally written back at the beginning of 2019 when I first started writing my blog. If you are here, it is likely that you are looking for help of some sort. I often describe my own journey as finding pieces of a jigsaw that help me make sense of things. Sometimes I […]