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My Intentions For 2018

I hope your 2018 is off to a good start. This year, rather than setting goals, I am setting intentions for my year. I have tried setting yearly goals before, and I don’t think I’ve ever met a single...

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Wellness Wednesday: How I Deal with Meal Anxiety

Last Friday night Chris organised to take me on a surprise date. He picked a restaurant, booked a table, and didn’t tell me where we were going until Friday morning. He’s a keeper. Sitting down at the...

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Wellness Wednesday: The Seasons of Our Bodies

I love watching spring’s first buds tentatively push their way through winter bracken. I love feeling the heat of summer sunshine beat down on baked earth. I love the lashing rains that sweep through...

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My 12 Favourite Self Care Practices

Self care has become one of the most recognised and important elements of working towards a healthy relationship with yourself and maintaining and increasing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual...

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On My Shelf – Give Me a Good Story

I don’t belong to a formal book club, although it is certainly something I know I would enjoy, but I am lucky enough to be surrounded by people who love to read, and who love to talk about books and...

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Thoroughly Nourished Finds – Inspiration and Escapism

Things in the world are getting really real at the moment, and because I don’t listen to the radio, or watch the news I find out about them on the internet, or through friends (and then end up trawling...

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French Lentil and Tomato Salad

This Wednesday marked four years since I decided to become a vegetarian. My decision to give up meat and fish illustrates the way I do many things in life: I research my decision and read all the...

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Fear Of Missing Out

I am sure by now that you have all heard about the (possibly) social media fuelled phenomenon that is FOMO, that is, Fear Of Missing Out. In these days of constant connection and instant uploads the...

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Nourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Nineteen

As I write I am sitting in a patch of afternoon sun with the bay breeze blowing through the window. I should be working on my uni dissertation, and this it the plan for the rest of the evening, but...

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Nourished Life: Small Great Things

All of my life I have wanted to do great things. I have felt that somehow my life was only worth measuring by impressive feats and grand achievements. I felt that I needed to ‘make something’ of myself...

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Midweek Mantra: Do it Every Day

When you have a dream, a vision, or a soul-shaking idea of what you want your life to be you are awakened to the gap between your current location and your planned destination. We are bombarded with...

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Twenty-Seven Thoughts for Twenty-Seven Years

Fair warning: this post is long. Read it in chunks. Read only a little. Read the whole lot. Let me know what you think. Yesterday I turned twenty-seven. That’s only three years away from thirty, and a...

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Midweek(ish) Mantra: Live With Kindness

When I was a little girl and lost my temper because Mum had asked me to do something that I didn’t want to do her remark was usually delivered calmly but with gravity, ‘Amy could you just do that with...

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Midweek Mantra: Listen and Understand

How does it feel to be you? That is the question I most want to ask people I meet. How does it feel to live your life? What makes your heart burst with pride? What are you most ashamed of? How do you...

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Midweek Mantra: Gathering the Minutes

My diary is a tumultuous place. Full of weeks of blank pages that suddenly become months of flurried activity and then settle again into blankness. My relationship with this dichotomy of diary states...

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Welcome to 2014, and a Winner is Announced!

Welcome to the new year friends! I hope you all found a way to mark the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014. Chris and I were welcomed into the home of friends where we played board games, ate...

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Grateful For You, Dad

This week I am putting off the normal Gratitude List until tomorrow and dedicating today to my Dad. I am grateful to have this man as my father and my friend. My Dad and Me. Today, a number of years...

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Nourished Life Gratitude List: Weeks Thirty-Six and Thirty-Seven

Get ready for a Nourished Life Gratitude List Mega Post! So much to be grateful for in the past two weeks. Here we go: Monday: Tonight after dinner Chris and I took a walk along the bay. I love walking...

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On My Shelf – Catch Up Edition

It has been far, far too long since I have shared an ‘On My Shelf’ post with you all. There have been many books in the intervening months. Perhaps not as many as I would like, but I am a slower...

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A Simple Bowl of Millet and Spiced Vegetables, and Thoughts

Welcome friends, can I speak a little about something that has been bothering me? Thank you. Lately, I feel like I haven’t been doing justice to this little space I love so much. I haven’t been tending...

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