One of the most disorienting experiences in life is the space between worlds. It is the place you find yourself when the old life has fallen away, but the new one has not yet taken shape. You are no longer who you were, but you do not yet know who you are becoming. This is…
Many people assume that the hardest part of a life transition is the beginning. They think the most difficult moment is the ending itself. The breakup, the loss, the decision, the point where something clearly changes. But in my experience, and in the stories I hear from others, the hardest part often comes afterwards. It…
Most life transitions do not begin with a dramatic event. They usually start much more quietly, with a moment where something just stops working in the way it used to. Nothing has necessarily fallen apart. On the outside, everything might look exactly the same. But inside, something shifts. You might notice it on an ordinary…
Something happens when your life changes fundamentally. Not just the obvious grief or upheaval, but a quieter, more corrosive thing underneath it: the sense that you’re doing it wrong. That you’re taking too long. That you should be further along by now. That other people seem to move through loss, change, endings – and come…
I think I’ve ‘officially’ been on my journey of studying herbalism for 5 years now (not counting what I learned/experienced from plants during the younger part of childhood). Whilst I was pregnant with my youngest, I took the Heartwood Foundation course in Herbal Medicine, with aspirations of progressing onto the Professional Course in the future….
I’ll start with the ironic fact that, for this particular plant sit, I didn’t have a lot of time to spend with Thyme – but even in a brief encounter, the symbolism of Thyme came through clearly. Admittedly, for years I struggled to grow Thyme beyond a year or two – I kept accidentally killing…
Lately, threads have come to my attention. Threads running through life, through calling, through relationships. If you’ve read some of my other writing, you’ll maybe know that I’ve spent a lot of time researching my own family tree. Within that, two threads pull strongest — the line of ancestors who lived in Sedbergh and Dent,…
There have been two paths existing simultaneously in me for a while now. One is the path of liminal space.Of watching the old version of myself decay.Of sitting with grief — personal, collective, planetary.Of feeling the quiet exhaustion that comes from being aware of what is happening in the world. The more I’ve come to…
Why Most Change Work Feels Like Failure I notice how often people say they’re “ok” when they’re not — not because they’re in denial, but because what they’re feeling hasn’t formed into words yet. The experience is real, but abstract. Layered. Hard to pin down. When there isn’t language for it, the easiest thing to…
How to navigate the in-between phase of a life transition If you’re in the middle of a life transition and wondering why it feels harder — or slower — than you expected, this may help you make sense of it. Most advice about change assumes a straight path: Something ends → you process it →…
Naming the dissonance in a life transition (felt, not dramatic) If you’re here reading this, you’ve probably been through some kind of life transition already — a career change, the death of someone close, a relationship ending, a relocation. Some endings arrive hard and loud. Others fizzle out slowly, with more warning. Either way, once…
I’m writing this in the run-up to Christmas — a time when I think most people would agree that life is anything but simple. There are New Year’s resolutions on the horizon.Last-minute gifts to buy.If you have children, remembering who needs to be where, and when.And then there’s the utter minefield of navigating family gatherings….
Lately, so many of us are feeling overloaded — not just with the holiday rush, but with the constant stream of social media, news, doom-laden prophecies, and the quiet comparisons to people whose lives seem shinier or smoother than ours. We’re all in this. Each of us has old parts of our life and identity…
A death, a rebirth. The last few months have seen a sort of birth and rite of passage for Wild Rose Path. It’s been slowly coming into reality. I’ve started a business from scratch before, and it grew in a fairly straightforward way – i followed the ‘rules’ , the strategies, all the logical stuff….
Before We Begin – A Disclaimer Before we wade together into this post—let me start by saying (and maybe this should be a disclaimer on every post…) that I write this NOT as another self-help ‘guru’. NOT as a patronising, “aww, are you having trouble speaking up? Let me fix that for you.” I write…