A Miniature Expedition
When the outside world is too big to face and you don't have the energy to re-connect with nature outside, a cheap microscope opens whole new avenues of connection and beauty to lift the soul.
Healing Through Growing Blog
Spring in My Steps
Recovery is a frustrating business with lots of twists and turns. Today a bumblebee helped me to navigate a corner.
Baby Steps Towards Recovery
Should I be resting or moving? Learning how to take baby steps and manage frustration is a huge challenge in the early stages of recovery or after a relapse. Sowing a few seeds is a manageable activity that gives a sense of achievement and anticipation.
Healing my Inner Library
OK, so this has nothing to do with the natural world and growing, it is all about the inner world and healing the damage that fibromyalgia et al do to your mind and mental capacities. Sometimes when you sit down to write surprising things happen.
Into the Woods
The recovery ‘journey’ may be a cliché, but there are few better ways of understanding the ups and downs, the twists and turns, involved in finding one’s way back to full health. The journey is a hard one, but sometimes the most difficult part is not looking too far ahead, learning to focus on the path under your feet and to find companions to share the highs and lows along the way.
A Corsage of Runner Beans
There's a difference between learning about recovery and understanding. Sometimes it takes a set-back to help the penny drop and grasp what being guided by your body really means.
Cold May Gardeners
Gardening folklore is an endless source of fascination. Do you know who the Cold Gardeners are and why they matter in May?
Resilience
In uncertain times a garden can be a source of food security as well as emotional well-being.
Cold!
Being cold and exhausted is a common part of fibro/CFS/ME. Don’t accept and learn to cope, learn why you’re cold and how to deal with it.
Feathered Friends
It's easy to become caught up in destructive moods and thoughts, brought on by past experiences, and to miss the calm and beauty around us now. Birds have a wonderful way of catching my attention and bringing me out of these dark places into the beauty of the present moment.
A Pruning Meditation
Pruning on a cold January day can be an exercise in mindfulness and a breath of fresh air after the warmth and indulgence of the Christmas holiday.
Super Fruit
Berries are extremely nutritious, tasty and easy to grow in small spaces, even for people with low energy levels.
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I have categorised my blogs by the 8 segments of the wheel of life, as identified by The Chrysalis Effect. These need to be addressed and balanced for effective healing and sustained good health. Click on the Categories tab to search through these, or the Tags tab for more detailed searches.
All of the photos that accompany my blogs are my own. I find that taking a camera out with me helps me to notice so much more of the beauty and detail of the world around me. When I've taken a photo I try to stop and watch whatever I've been snapping, so I appreciate it in real life and not just through the lens.
