Since I’ve been writing about the third eye, it occurred to me that it might be a good time to write this piece, since so very much of what I do looks like it comes straight from the third eye. I couldn’t do what I do if I didn’t have a good current connection with my body and at least a reasonable amount of emotional fluency. I also think I’d be less good at what I do if I hadn’t spent countless hours sitting still and people watching, gently eavesdropping and reading loads

This is kind of a rambly post, again. Let's hope there's at least coherence. The 6th chakra is the energetic centre that lies behind your physical eyes: the centre of seeing and knowing, of thought and understanding, and also of patterns and colour. This centre is usually called the Third Eye or the Brow Chakra, though these are not identical. For our purposes, it isn’t so important to distinguish them. At this level of the chakras, you can transcend time and space and physic

About three weeks ago I started seeing orb weaver spiders everywhere, and finding spiders in the house again. I’m not sure why it is that I go months in summer without seeing spiders outside of the garden, or why it is that they all of a sudden reappear in my awareness. Maybe the orb weavers are there, only just behind the dense foliage that begins to thin in August. Maybe they do something different then. And maybe the house spiders are busy when it’s warm out with other thi

When I was 33 I was pregnant with my second child. That year and the four that followed were the most devastatingly intense and ultimately most healing years I have known. There was my life before and there is my life now. I'm still digesting those five years and their place in the story of my life. I'm choosing details here to tell you some of what I know now about grief and the human heart and body. I think my dance with denial of grief and depression started long before th