Hello ,“You can do so much better than this…”When you hear those words, what do you feel? Ouch?I found myself saying this to someone the other day and realised how harsh it sounded. But it came from absolute love. I can see in people what they're cap...

Hello ,Last week I wrote about my Theory of Brave. And what better way to test a theory than to put yourself squarely in the firing line?Last week I signed up to do a marathon stretch of Run Across UK in aid of Down’s Syndrome Scotland in March. My s...

Hello ,A question for you. Is where you are right now, where you want to be?Have you resigned yourself to ‘this is it’?Not because you want to. Not because you have to. But because every time you dream of what could be, the voice in your head shouts...

Hello , my fellow brave humanDiscovering my mum’s cancer had returned coincided with my discovery of ‘the sketchbook project’, a programme run by the Brooklyn art library in New York. It was a global project that gave a series of titles to choose fr...

Hello , my fellow brave humanI’ve had writer’s block. And it’s been bugging me. It’s not because I’ve not had anything to say - but because there is so much swirling around that I’ve needed to make sense of it all. And if feels good to be writi...