Something very odd has happened over the last year and it feels fitting, it being Go Sober for October right now, to tell you about it.

First it was wine.  It started tasting funny and the sleepless nights that occurred when I drank too much of it became too much.  Then it was...

Dear eyelashes,

It’s such a shame that you’ve decided to jump ship.  I get it: all my head hair has gone, so I guess you feel like they’ve got a point and there’s little reason for you to hang round too.

I’m not sure if you’ll believe me, but head hair got...

This summer I shifted a significant relationship.  One that has been complex, sometimes rewarding but increasingly toxic.

It wasn’t with a human, but with my smartphone.

In many ways I love my phone.  I can run my business from it when needed (although “big internet”...

This blog has taken an age to write.  Not because I’ve been tinkering with it and endlessly editing.  I apologise, dear reader, as I’m too imperfect and impatient to do such things.

I’ve simply been avoiding sitting down and doing it.  A couple of weeks ago I had...

On paper, it could be said that I’ve had a pretty rough and traumatic time of it over the last 12 years or so.

In that time I have, as regular readers will know, lost my hair though alopecia.

What I talk about quite a bit less is that I’ve lost quite a lot more than that too: I lost...

I could give you a list.  

I could tell you in bullet point form how creative business coaching might help you.

But that would be pretty boring…  I’d rather start by telling you a story.

My relationship with coaching is only 5 years old: it started back in 2019. ...

It’s a phrase that’s uttered a lot: "Diversifying Income" but it is often shrouded in business talk which turns most of the creative sector (myself included) right off.  But, when you move away from the exclusionary jargon, it is absolutely key to building a thriving creative...

It was the 27th January last year when a roomful of fabulous women, my hairdresser and my lovely kids joined me for my Brave Shave party.  Over 70% of my hair had gone so it was the swiftest and, in some ways, easiest haircut Paolo had ever given me.  It was certainly the cheapest!

But...

Let’s start at the beginning in defining what I mean by a glimmer.

The term “glimmer” was first coined by social worker Deb Dana in 2018 in her book The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy.  Her work centres around complex trauma and glimmer was a term she created to reflect the...

Growing up I was a very creative kid, always making something or other.  But it was a continual exercise in frustration as the ideas in my head never quite matched up to what I made in reality.  Undeterred, I continued to make stuff until I had a bit of a crisis of confidence and felt...

I still catch a reflection of myself and have a moment of surprise.

It happens every morning when I briefly glance in the mirror.  I immediately think "oh! I'm bald! I forgot that" and then I smile and say (often out loud) to myself "hello baldy!"

I feel extremely lucky those moments of...

“Thank you so much for your honesty, your vulnerability and your practical advice”

This was one of the many very lovely bits of feedback I received last week from one of my free How to Make an Online Course webinars.  It wasn’t the only comment about my honesty, which has...

This is a sentence opener I’ve found to be super useful when I get asked “so what is it you do?”.

That question used to freeze me in fear, especially when asked by someone who wasn’t in the creative sector.  “Well, I do a few things…” I’d...

When you’re freelance or self employed, properly going on holiday is a hard thing to do.  There’s a worry that, as you do everything in your business, things might fall apart if you’re not keeping on top of messages and emails.  There’s also the more...

I often catch people staring when I’m out and about without a wig.  I don’t mind it at all - I’d stare too; it’s just human to be curious about difference and diversity.  On the whole, I find that humans are lovely and they don’t want people to get upset by...

Tricky question right?

If you follow me on Instagram or LinkedIn, you'll have seen that I've been musing on that a bit recently, especially in relation to creativity.

There are, what I would consider to be, healthy distractions and unhealthy ones.

Healthy distractions would include reflective...