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Is Resilience only Skin Deep?

Is Resilience only Skin Deep?

9TH FEBRUARY 2017 Loosely defined, resilience is the ability to bounce back from difficult situations and not just survive but thrive. For example, look at your friendship group. Why does one friend’s partner leave them and after a period of grieving they go on to...
Developing Resilience Your Way

Developing Resilience Your Way

24TH SEPTEMBER 2016 When life gives you lemons, consider margaritas. Or marmalade, or if making art is a delight for you then how about creating a giant lemon sculpture for the next Sculpture by the Sea? Perhaps lemons invoke yellow and you might delve deeply into its...
This year what do you resolve to do?

This year what do you resolve to do?

5TH JANUARY 2016 New Year resolutions, ‘a to-do list for the first week of January.’ What are you doing this week that is new? Will it be a once-off? Are resolutions just a waste of time?  I don’t think so. If you want to commit to being the best person you can be and...
Keeping your creative brain happy

Keeping your creative brain happy

25TH AUGUST 2015 Should I eat it or take a photo of it? Is it food or art? Our creative brains love questions like these and in truth we don’t get enough of them, not in our everyday lives anyway which if they are working well are filled with routines and habits of...
In the Muddle of Nowhere

In the Muddle of Nowhere

9TH MAY 2015 Where are you? A friend asked on facebook. I’m in the muddle of nowhere, I wrote. No autocorrect hovered over the word as I carefully replaced the ‘u’ with ‘i’ and looked again at the sentence. It unsettled me, as if an elephant in the room had been made...