Spoons and Broomsticks

We’re living in troubling times right now. For those of us with mental health problems, dealing with existential threats and the fear of losing vulnerable friends and family can be overwhelming. Others may find that […]

What does your mental health do with the turning of the wheel?  Do you notice?  Try not to notice or ignore it? Or is it something that really makes itself known about when the nights […]

This last decade or so has seen such an explosion of social media use, with technology growing so much faster than cultural etiquette around what makes for good manners online. People use it to share […]

When ones health deteriorates or one becomes disabled it can be difficult adjusting to the new you, and what is your new normal. All areas of your life need to be adapted to suit your […]

By Sylvia Rose Some benefits assessments go ok. The assessor is sympathetic, the outcome is what you’d hoped for. These are often the ones you don’t hear about. What gets circulated are the horror stories […]

By Sylvia Rose A young man is picked up by the police near Avebury. They are concerned that he is distressed and acting strangely. He talks somewhat incoherently of the summer solstice, of speaking with […]

By Sylvia  Getting ill with ME was a terrible time in my life, and one of my respites was the regular Friday trip by my partner and me to the pub across the road to […]

So, this month is the Wildlife Trust’s Wild Month! They’re asking people to sign up and do something wild every day this month! Even if it’s something as simple as sitting in the garden, watching […]

From my Book of Shadows… Never think that magic is not real,it’s in the very air we breathe,in the songs we sing, in the books we read,in the painting we gaze upon, in the people we loveand the lives we lead.Magic is all around us;we don’t needs fairy dust or special powers…just knowledge, wisdom and the belief in the power of ourself. Marie This post originally appeared on our first site, dis-spelling.org.uk in 2018

A loving farewell I love you enough to let you slip away;Quietly into the realms of my past.I love you enough to accept we were not meant to be;That although you’ll always be a part […]