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  • How To be Human Enough to… Feel All your Feelings

    How To be Human Enough to… Feel All your Feelings

    I am a deeply feeling person that is wired to absorb information in a world that thrives on stoking outrage, sadness and division. All while showing us joy and beauty and love. And sometimes it’s terrifying. My brain struggles to prioritise things and can get engulfed by emotion – shutting down or spinning off in… Read more

  • How to Be Human Enough To… Just Write

    How to Be Human Enough To… Just Write

    Words are everything to me. A hyperlexic, preschool reader, they were my first source of connection and escape. Books fascinated me with the amount of knowledge they held dormant within them, just needing someone’s brain to come along and unlock them. I devoured Anne of Green Gables, everything by Roald Dahl and almost the entire… Read more

  • How to be Human Enough to… Belong to Myself.

    How to be Human Enough to… Belong to Myself.

    If I look for confirmation that I don’t belong, I’ll find it every time. I had drifted so far away from belonging to myself that I didn’t know how to get back. Read more

  • How to Be Human Enough to… love wild swimming

    How to Be Human Enough to… love wild swimming

    Don’t be fooled by the breathtaking beauty of the rainbow sky. This is the North Sea in Scotland in January and is just as cold as you would imagine! I’ve been swimming here (and elsewhere) since my 43rd birthday, never quite feeling comfortable with the cold shock of getting into the water but inexplicably returning… Read more

  • How to Be Human Enough to…belong? New blogging community

    How to Be Human Enough to…belong? New blogging community

    Introduction to this blog, polymath or flibbertigibbet? Read more