Victor Olliver is an award winning journalist and a long time ago, trained as a lawyer. But around the age… Read more

Almost there.  Within 48 hours (all going well) I will be at Mumbai airport, boarding the two hour Kingfisher flight… Read more

A huge thank you to Instinctive Living for publishing this blog on talking to children about death and dying. Check… Read more

I have been thinking a lot about hubris recently, sparked off by the global panic surrounding Coronavirus. Hubris comes from the… Read more

Ben Parkes, also known as YogaBen, has been teaching and practising yoga for over twenty years. He trained with Swami Ambikananda. She, herself,… 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

I’ve just read yet another article (this one from Menopause Relief) about how you can ‘cure’ low libido during and after… Read more

Recently I was a participant in Professor Jem Bendell’s Deep Adaptation retreat at the Haybergill Centre, Yorkshire. I was a… 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

It’s Valentine’s Day.  A card arrives on the early morning tea tray. I clasp my hands to my bosom and exclaim,… Read more

As soon as Dr Alan Hugenot finished school, he was drafted into the Vietnam War and joined the navy. This… Read more

The tenth pop-up death café on Mystic Moon took place in sight of two magnificent tall ships currently being refurbished… Read more

I found myself surprisingly disturbed as I listened on BBC i-player to Roisin McAuley’s absorbing BBC Radio 4 documentary, Leaving Mr Wrong… Read more

This pop-up was co-hosted by psychotherapist Josefine Speyer, who runs monthly death cafes in Hampstead and Death Salons in her… Read more

This time the workshop took place in Sailsbury with a group of 16 therapists and counsellors. Five (including the only… 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

My time in McLeod Ganj is already half way through. So far it’s been a mixture of what I expected… Read more

Ten years ago, Jazmine Wolf’s husband died suddenly in his mid-forties of an undiagnosed heart condition. She talks candidly about… Read more