Overcoming the scary by hanging upside down…
We’re at Day 12 of my 21 Days of Transience, and I’m back at school getting to grips with fear… The day I conquered ‘swingy legs’ I felt I could conquer the world. Getting there had taken what, to a child of around seven or eight, seemed like...
The long and winding road towards motherhood…
Yay! Half-way through my 21 Days of Transience and for Day 11 I’m taking an unscheduled trip… This absolutely was not what I’d had in mind. No, I definitely hadn’t fantasised about being in the back of an ambulance as we made our winding way from Buxton...
Finding the answer on an Aberdeenshire beach…
Another week, another in my 21 Days of Transience — Day 10, to be precise, and I’m looking at how a transient thought becomes a reality… I’d already accepted the job at this point, so it was now just a matter of location and logistics. It’s November 1994,...
Spooked while counting down the miles to Milan…
For Day 9 of my 21 Days of Transience, I’m heading home from our annual holiday in Montenegro… When we decamped for our summer holidays in Montenegro — then part of Yugoslavia — it always involved trundling across a sizeable chunk of Europe in our solid...Where I am Making Waves…
This is where you get behind the scenes with me and find out what makes me tick.
There is another purpose, too: I want to help empower others — women in particular, and especially women over 50.
If that’s you, I want to help you discover — just I have — that you don’t need to be constrained by ideas you’ve had about yourself, about what’s expected of you, about what you may believe is and isn’t doable.
I want to share ideas, share my own story, and above all my passion for being physical, being at one with my body, whether that’s through my running, my open water swimming, through ski-ing, stand-up paddleboarding (my newest passion), yoga, or plain old-fashioned walking.
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PPS Just so you know, I don’t always toe the line around what makes for optimal health and wellbeing, and I can sometimes be a bit controversial…