When I was a child my mother would buy a big Christmas tree every December and we’d all decorate it with baubles, tinsel and fairy lights. One Christmas eve, aged fourteen years old, I took a walk outside in the … Continue reading →

What is the essence of healing? Where does responsibility for our healing journey lie? These are big questions, and I took a deep dive into them with Dr Cathy Holway recently. I don’t know anyone I’d rather explore this territory … Continue reading →

I saw the film “Wonder” recently. It’s a sweet movie, telling the story of a boy who is born deformed and spends much of his childhood not wanting to be seen. It showed how shame can get a hold of … Continue reading →

This time last year I recognised that I had been walling myself off from the many crises that humanity is facing. I had been trying to create a bubble of calm in a sea of chaos, and the resulting isolation … Continue reading →

Earlier this year I called a Story Circle on the theme of Gratitude. I got a lot of very touching responses, which I took with me into an intuitive storytelling session. The story that came, however, led me through a … Continue reading →

I met my wife Sundara three years before we became lovers. In the interim I lost touch with her, but throughout that period I was possessed by a very real and tangible sense of fear. This fear seemed to have … Continue reading →

Last spring I called a Story Circle on the theme of Love. People answered questions online, and some joined me for an online call, and we all went deeply into these questions: “what does love mean to you? What has … Continue reading →

I’m preparing a Christmas performance of stories for children and have been digging into the archive of stories that I told at my children’s bedside when they were young. They are now 11 and 13 years old, and a very, … Continue reading →

All my life I’ve tracked a wavering course between purity and impurity. I yearn for a spiritual cleansing in which all my faults will be erased and I will no longer feel so vulnerable. And yet all my attempts to … Continue reading →

This summer Sundara and I were shocked to discover that one of our dearest friends had cancer. Parabhakti is younger than us, and totally dedicated to his spiritual path and to the art of wellbeing. And yet the way that … Continue reading →