Let me explore a ‘dragon’ – the stuck dragon

I was reading recently a blog by Laura Young called ‘The dragons slayers guide to life’ a great site that has a wonderful series on dragon slaying you could read – it might help you identify some dragons in your life and some ways of dealing with them. Then comes along another post by Craig [...]

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The nightmare

I don’t usually wake to nightmares but recently this has been happening a lot and it has scared the shit out of me. I am writing about it in the hope that along with this, the milo, the valium and some pain killer for the sciatic that is screaming at me I might head to [...]

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A bit to add to Craig’s Energy Vampires

Please skip over to Craig harper.com and read Dealing with Energy Vampires . I would like to personalise this a bit and write about my energy vampire. I come across these people daily in scool as students and I can deal with them effectively – but I am also married to one and that is where [...]

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‘I haven’t got time’ – the ultimate excuse

“Have you done x yet” “I didn’t have time” The Ultimate lie for what is truly It is not important to me to do that is I haven’t got time or I didn’t have time. The latter really means someone suggested it was important but it wasn’t important enough for me to fit it into [...]

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I don’t admire couch potatoes or gunna do’s.

There’s this guy ‘Cactus’ at From Couch Potato to Olympian.  I really gotta admire the way Craig has approached his support of Cactus here. I know it’s a blokey thing – not my style. But hey – if my dear ex hubby had mates like this just maybe, (a big maybe) he could be a [...]

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Upset the apple cart and see where the apples fall!

I heard this quote on the radio the other day. I am in the middle of crawling out of a hole of deep and dark depression and one aspect of my life that took me into this hole was the ‘do not under any circumstances rock the boat’ way of approaching life. Instinctively I knew this [...]

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OMG! What have I done?

Well, this at least is what I said to my counsellor when I finally found the courage to tell my husband those dreadful words ‘I want a separation’. There – I had finally said it and at first I was felling pretty good but the next day I got the guilts. Here is what she had to [...]

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