
Guest blog – A new plan for the Summer – Ange de Lumiere
I have a new plan for the summer, which I started implementing last year with great success. Before this plan, I felt I could not even sustain a business and in truth, it was a struggle. Every year I dreaded the summer holidays because it meant I feared losing...

Guest blog – Juggling my family & business this Summer Holiday – Holly Ballard
The summer holiday is fast approaching and I am planning on juggling my family and my business. I have a 6 year old and a 1 year old so am juggling most of the time anyway! I am still working most evenings seeing my reflexology clients, although am taking some time...

Guest blog – Sandwiched words – or how I juggle being a parent and a freelancer over the summer holidays – Amanda Fearn
Ah, the summer holidays. I have treasured memories of the summer holidays. Growing up in Cornwall, my summer was one, long seaside adventure. It was waiting at Penryn station for the two-carriage train: the smell of diesel an odd precursor to the smell of salt and sun...

My social media switch off
I removed Instagram from my phone about a week ago now and it feels good. Not because I don’t like it, and not because I’m reliant on it either, but it feels so refreshing as I don’t need to use up precious brainpower admiring others’ perfection, beauty or idealism....

Space matters
I’ve come to realise that one of the main benefits of being away on holiday isn’t the sea, the eating out or the attractions (though of course these are all AMAZING), but for me one of the single greatest wins is simply cutting out the distractions. I had previously...

A wave of emotion
Yikes, I only popped out for a few supplies. What I didn’t anticipate was a vivid flashback followed by a gulp as I tried to stop my eyes flooding with tears. Whoosh, just like that, I‘d been overcome with emotion; both from memories and the realisation of how far I’d...

The power of now – A letter to myself
Waiting until the stars are aligned, my ducks are in a row, the house is perfect, the washing’s up to date, I’m 100% ready means it will NEVER happen. Because that day will never come and all opportunities I’m aiming for will have dried up and vanished into the ether!...
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