Nourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Ten
This week was one that brought with it a reminder of the importance of everyday moments and the value of home for a healthy heart. Home has so many different meanings for me. ‘Home is where the heart...
View ArticleMidweek(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...
View ArticleTwenty-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...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Weeks Twelve and Thirteen
The past two weeks have been like a bitter-sweet chocolate and caramel layer cake. There have been challenging bittersweet moments that have exposed areas of my own personality and temperament that I...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Fourteen
Some weeks I struggle with the quiet. Some weeks I struggle with the busyness. I’m contrary like that. This week I had the perfect balance of all-over-the-place and quiet nights in. I am grateful for...
View ArticleMidweek 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...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Fifteen
This week was amazing and busy with adventures, which is why I am delivering this Nourished Life Gratitude List 2014 a little late. So much life to live and so much to be grateful for. Here I present...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Sixteen
I am so grateful for the long weekend. Plenty of time to catch up with family and friends, which is why this blog is coming to you just before dinner on Easter Sunday night. Chris and I had a busy...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Seventeen
This week was short on work (3 day weeks should be the standard I think) and long on family time, relaxation, and adventures with my darling. Right now we are recovering from travelling back from a...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Eighteen
Yesterday I teased you with a pancake recipe, and oh I will deliver (Wednesday, I promise), but today I wanted to share my Nourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Eighteen. This week I felt really...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Chris!
Today I am stopping to wish a happy birthday to one of the most important ingredients in the recipe for my Thoroughly Nourished Life – my darling Christopher! Sweetheart, you are the reason my sun...
View ArticleNourished 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...
View ArticleNourished 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...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Jess!
Every year when your birthday comes around I still feel the same excitement deep within my heart that I did the first time I got to meet you – you! Alive and out in this world and all mine to love. We...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Twenty-One
On Sunday I was busy celebrating the birthday of my wonderful sister and feasting on oh so many yummy things. This week has been a busy one with meetings galore, treats to test, and running to do! I...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Twenty-Two
The world lost a great soul this week: Dr Maya Angelou. I first discovered Dr Angelou through inspirational quotations, and then one day I stumbled upon a BBC interview she gave about her first book ‘I...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Twenty-Three
Chris and I are kicking back today and tomorrow and enjoying the Queen’s birthday long weekend. There is something nourishing about having an extra weekend day: extra time to spend with your family,...
View ArticleQuinoa, Olive, Zucchini and Rocket (gluten free, vegan)
Do you ever hold onto things that you know you need to let go of to live a healthy, authentic, and truly nourished life? Something that you know isn’t helping you to be the healthiest and happiest...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Twenty-Four
Happy Monday readers! Or Happy Sunday to you if you are still enjoying the weekend. I wish I could tell you that I was super busy on Sunday, by Chris and I were actually just having a super relaxing...
View ArticleNourished Life Gratitude List 2014 – Week Twenty-Five
Right now I am sitting in a patch of winter sun after a walk along the bay. It’s a rather nineteenth century notion, but I do believe that ‘taking the air’ when you are sick can be of benefit. Even if...
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