Inspirational Articles

The answer is much more than you may realise. It has only been in recent years that science has accepted the enormous empathy that animals can give, pet owners have always known. Many years ago I was attending a course on Animal Therapy and because I had a 7mth old pup at the time I was told to bring him along: there were about thirty people there and we went to sit in a circle in a big barn. I was told to take his lead off, and immediately panicked thinking he would be trotting around cocking his leg; the

For me hurt came at a later stage in life, I had the normal family life happy marriage, brought up two children who met and settled down with partners. We were an average family mixing with ordinary people with decent values. Then suddenly it all fell apart. My husband had a massive stroke and died in front of me. Everything changed. We had a small kennels breeding and showing German Shepherd Dogs and a small Pet-food Delivery Business as a retirement hobby. Almost immediately some people started to take advantage of my vulnerability and were it not for good friends

This was the title of an exercise within an online business course and I thought it might be helpful to others, but I plan to split it into two parts so that it isn’t too much to read in one go. All of us are tried and tested at different times during our lives, and those trials come in a variety of ways. Adverse conditions in childhood that linger on, can, and do affect our adult life, and how we deal with problems. I recently attended a course update on a therapy known as The 5Awakenings which is a complementary

We find it very hard to give ourselves compassion. Without a doubt the majority of people are capable of feeling compassion for others in distress but would deny compassion to themselves. Adversity is something we all experience at some point in our lives: sometimes it just comes and hits us and at other times we bring it on ourselves. Yet do we forgive ourselves when we make the mistake? very rarely. Deep inside lurks that voice that says “You are stupid, you are cruel, or you shouldn’t have done that.” There are, of course, some people who could not care

Thomas Paine was a ‘Norfolk Boy’ who went on to be one of the great revolutionary political writers of his time. In a book of his work he is described as ‘The First International Revolutionary’, although throughout the book there is a sense of his kindness and compassion for the ordinary man. He supported the French revolution, and we know from history that the plight of the ordinary people of that period was bound to bring about change. He wrote extensively and still has a great following with a Thomas Paine Society followed by very intellectual people (I am fascinated

Over the last few years I have written quite a bit about the psychic pictures that I do, some are portraits and some covering more unusual subjects. In the last year I felt very pushed to turn some of them into a book and the more I researched their subject the more I could see that it had a theme to modern day problems. It started with this picture.This is part of a picture initially done for a friend as a thank-you for something she had done. The central character was someone important to her, and then I put a