Teaching English to Tibetan monks is one thing, but to see the Dalai Lama in person is quite another. From… Read more

Happy International Women’s Day! I’ve just clicked as a virtual participant for the Millennium Bridge celebrations, led by the awesome… Read more

Recently I’ve been reflecting on the concept of hope because of the maelstrom of change and uncertainty that is spinning… Read more

Taking part in a discussion with eldercare campaigner Marion Shoard on Woman’s Hour yesterday was one of the scarier moments of my life. … Read more

The Womanologist Dion Johnston is Bristolian by birth, born to Jamaican immigrants. She says she feels very fortunate to have… Read more

I want to say up front that this article does not provide absolute truths. I am only striving to try… Read more

It’s Professor Brian Cox who dunnit for me, in the sitting room, with his BBC series, The Wonders of the… Read more

I was hanging up the washing, when I imagined a Japanese woman of similar postmenopausal age living in Sendai,  doing… Read more

More than a few people have been telling me that it feels as if they are dragging themselves through their… Read more

Every six weeks I run a consciousness meeting for a group of women who want to talk about what really… Read more

This article first appeared in the spring 2017 issue of Thresholds, published by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy©’…. Read more

This article is published in the Astrological Journal May/June 2026 Issue.We live in a culture that treats sexual fervour as… Read more

Roz Savage MBE holds four Guinness World Records for ocean rowing and is the first woman to row solo across… Read more

An Advance Directive (living will) stipulates, for example, whether you want to be resuscitated or should you become seriously ill, what… Read more

I feel another soapbox rant coming on.  On the train to London I read a left-behind Daily Mail.  ‘Fight the… Read more

The end of the first week with IVHQ India approaches.  And, what a week it’s been. I arrived just before… Read more

I interviewed Angela Ward, who co-runs Go Simply Funerals with her husband Kevin, about her work as a funeral celebrant… Read more

Yesterday I spent an inspiring day at the Festival for Death and Dying at the Connect Centre, Wells. It was wonderful… Read more