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Category: Mental Health

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sunrise

Vintage DahlingSeptember 17, 2022September 17, 2022
sunrise
It’s been a while. Things have been………difficult. For a while, unseasonably quiet, or so it seemed, and whilst I knew we weren’t out of the woods I was happy for a while to rest inContinue reading
Family

empty chair

Vintage DahlingMarch 27, 2022March 27, 2022
empty chair
Last weekend there were fleeting glimpses of the old AJ, just for a few hours, like a rainbow appearing momentarily between sunshine and rain. Reach out to try and grasp it and it disappears throughContinue reading
Family

heart on my sleeve

Vintage DahlingJanuary 30, 2022January 30, 2022
heart on my sleeve
“Hope is such an underrated characteristic, don’t you think? Perhaps because it sounds a bit flaky. Like you’ve not prepared and you’re winging things. “Hoping for the best” is something we do when we reallyContinue reading
Family

exhale

Vintage DahlingJanuary 15, 2022January 15, 2022
exhale
“You feel so much, you feel nothing at all” David Ross Lawn July 2021, Sunday morning, the sun just thinking about creeping into the sky. A sudden sharp hammering on the door shattered the otherwiseContinue reading
Family

held by tender mercies

Vintage DahlingJanuary 1, 2022January 1, 2022
held by tender mercies
A brand new year. What do you wish for? No New Year’s resolutions for me, but a continued purposeful commitment towards a more quiet and gentle approach to living with whatever life challenges us with.Continue reading
Family

bystander

Vintage DahlingDecember 15, 2021December 15, 2021
bystander
“You have travelled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined toContinue reading
Mental Health

firing arrows from your heart

Vintage DahlingOctober 10, 2021October 10, 2021
firing arrows from your heart
If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; it’s purpose is to burst open again and againContinue reading
Mental Health

shiny happy people

Vintage DahlingSeptember 29, 2021September 29, 2021
shiny happy people
It’s been nearly 3 months since I updated this blog, and in that time I have written 3 posts that I haven’t published together with editing what might one day see the light of dayContinue reading
Family

what will survive of us is love

Vintage DahlingJuly 11, 2021July 11, 2021
what will survive of us is love
I was sitting in an online Senior Leadership Team Meeting this week reviewing risk registers and our business development plan when my phone pinged. As a rule I try to ignore my phone in meetings,Continue reading
Family

you can stand under my umbrella

Vintage DahlingJune 17, 2021June 17, 2021
you can stand under my umbrella
I spent some time with a friend recently whose daughter died suddenly, unexpectedly. I’ve re-written that sentence several times. There is no right or easy way to say it, because ultimately, it’s not right isContinue reading

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