Connecting The Dots - Because despite appearances, the dots are not placed at random.

Comfort can fall into two extremes.
We either chase and practically idolise it, trying to get our lives to exist permanently in our perfect comfort zone - or we resist it everywhere, seeing it as les…

Continuing on the birthday processing,  from Episode 058 - Age Is But A Number, today I am thinking about how we can put a lot of pressure on our birthdays to make us feel a certain way. 
Perhaps if w…

I'm no 'Personal Style Guru', I mean I've learnt a few things and am much clearer on the colours that suit me best and make me feel like I look awake, alive and healthy - but I do think that learning…

How often as a kid at school were you told to show your workings out?

In certain situations (eg. maths exams) this is to our benefit, in order to help someone understand our process and give us clarit…

Birthdays can be tricky for many of us, feeling like milestones and marker points in our lives, yet they don't always coincide with where we hoped or thought we'd be.  But what if age really was just…

In nature there are laws of seed time, and harvest... some plants spend ages underground before emerging , but then grow rapidly, bloom and die, whereas others are slow to grow at all, yet last longe…

Hi there you lovely listeners!

So for those of you who have been listening a while, you may have noticed the sporadic output and the near radio silence for over a year. 
Burnout, life and moving have p…

Have you ever been told that in order to survive and get on in this world, you need to develop a thick skin?
Maybe you've been led to believe that softness is weakness (and not in a good way), and tha…

How often do you find that you have big plans or ideas, but then fail to be able to execute them because of... well... Life?
Perhaps you long to fulfill a big project, but it's slow going due to ongo…

Making art requires connection to our emotions and physical sensations... the more connected we are, the better able we are to create work that resonates.
However, we can mistake this need to be in to…

When you can't see what's happening below the surface, it can cause us to worry whether anything is actually happening at all - whether we are discussing personal growth or creative development. Yet …

When making creative work (and also being in healthy relationships) a lot of value is placed on being able to be present. You can't actually make something that is in the past - it has already passed…

We all have moments of self doubt, and when we are pursuing a path that is more off the beaten track, it can feel really hard, and sometimes lonely, when we doubt our choices. Yet if we see our creat…

How often do you judge your ideas (or people - guilty here) too soon  and without the full picture?  
For our creativity to thrive and our ideas to flow, we need to leave judgement at the door. Once w…

How often do we ignore the pull towards something, because we feel we should be doing something else right now?
What if we were to be more responsive to those things which do draw us, trusting that we…

** Welcome to season 6 of Connecting The Dots!***

After the darkest season of Winter, yet before Spring is sprung, join me as I deep dive into all things creativity, artistry, parenting, self-care, pe…

As the days get shorter and darker and we look forward to the coming of the lights of Christmas and hope for the light of new life and creativity in Spring, it can feel as though the waiting is forev…

Christmas is getting closer, and all the energy is ramping up as we prepare for the coming festivities, but as we enter the season of Advent, maybe we can take a little bit of time to gather inwards,…

Stories are powerful ways of helping us make sense of the world and our own experiences. Even more so, our own personal stories and the way we engage with and express them. It's not about spin, but f…

I think that we can often feel that our voice (aka what we have to contribute) is not really either valuable or important, and that what we might think or want to say isn't worth sharing.

But I disagr…