Last year, I lost my career to the much misunderstood illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I was unable to get out of bed for 3 months. It took another 6 months to leave the house. While there was no shortage of well-meaning advice, I still felt alone and misunderstood, longing for someone to say something truly …
The process of recovery has led me to living in the present moment. I have slowed down the planning, scheming monkey mind and wonder what place hope has now. When my life was spiralling out of control, I had two choices: either sink under the anger and depression that threatened to engulf me or surrender …
Since I have found myself completely unable to write a blog post for over a month, I have been thinking a lot about resistance and how it shows up in my life. I seem to have resistance to continuing with things that previously seemed to be a good idea. Strangely, these are often things I …
Last week I wrote about Tools for Recovery, here: http://susantelford.com/2017/01/07/tool-for-recovery-part-1-yoga/ and here: http://susantelford.com/2017/01/11/tools-for-recovery-part-2-juicing/ I tried to follow these plans to the letter and managed 10 days on juice and 17 days of daily yoga, until the inevitable resistance set in. I missed day 18 of #yogarevolution. I woke feeling tired and sore, in addition to the daily yoga I …
As part of the investigations into the cause of the mini-strokes I had in December, it was discovered that my cholesterol level is high. This has been the case before, but at that time I was told that my ratio of HDL ( so called “good” cholesterol) to my total cholesterol was fine and so …
I have always enjoyed practising yoga and at one time used to attend several classes a week. Now that my energy is limited, I find it preferable to practise at home and last year came across Yoga with Adriene on Youtube. Adriene’s mantra is Find What Feels Good and her philosophy is to listen to …
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back …