For some time now I have wanted to share my thoughts and experiences around mental health. There are many aspects that feed into our mental well-being and it’s important to have an open discussion around these, including; anxiety, depression, how slow living can help mental well-being, what we do to hinder ourselves, and what we can do to help. Finally, why it’s so important that we talk about mental health in the first place?  Collectively, our awareness about mental well-being is much greater than it was even five years ago. People are beginning to understand that talking about things ..read more

It’s publication day! I can’t believe after months and months of hard work that my book Seeking Slow is out today. It feels pretty surreal to release the book, and everything that the pages contain out into the world. Between the covers are not only my words and pictures but they are entwined with snippets about how we choose to live our lives. I created the following little video to celebrate launch day and to explain what Seeking Slow is all about. I really hope this gentle book helps others find their slice of slow living. Head here to buy your copy of Seeking Slow. Finally, I will be givi ..read more

My book Seeking Slow is out next week! I have been writing the book for the last year, but in actuality the book has been forming for much longer than that. For years, I have had the kernel of a dream to create a book, to pour everything I know and don’t know about slow living on to pages where they can be read and digested by others. I do hope my words and photos will help, inform and inspire others to slow down the pace of their lives. It takes a very different set of skills to tell people about your work than it does to create it. And with everything I have done I have always found it ea ..read more

I am so excited to be able to tell you that my new book ‘Seeking Slow’ is now available for pre-order. I have poured so much love, thought and knowledge into this book over the last 9 months and am sharing everything I have learnt about slow and simple living.  By simplifying our lifestyles, prioritising our well-being and making space for moments of stillness we can begin to slow down and change the quality of how we move through our day. My time and experience as a yoga teacher and massage therapist have been fundamental in shaping how I connect to myself, my body and how I look a ..read more

What a 6 months it’s been since Christmas! This year seems to have flown by faster than ever; The snow drops and daffodils came and went, then the magnolia and spring blossom fell, before I knew it we were walking amongst the bluebells. Now we are in the height of summer and I am still deeply absorbed in the process of creating a book. It’s been a wonderful and challenging process and has taken more time and energy than I anticipated. I was prepared for it to stretch and push me, not just creatively but also with my anxiety levels, and it has definitely done that in unexpected ways. Some thin ..read more

I sent out a rather exciting newsletter last week sharing some news. Thanks for all your kind words of congratulations. If you missed the update, you’ll be wondering what I am talking about. I am thrilled and a little anxious to be able to finally tell you all that I am writing a book. It’s so exciting to think that my words and photographs are going to be published. The book is about slow living and how to simplify our lives. Living slowly and simply is so necessary in todays busy, over stimulated world. Knowing how to slow down and reconnect to yourself is essential for our happiness and w ..read more

Finally!!! We have finished our breakfast room restoration!! I’m not normally an over-user of exclamation marks! But in this instance, I think they are well deserved. After all, it’s taken us a long time to get to this point! Technically the room has been finished for a few months now but I’ve only just had the opportunity to edit my photos and the headspace to write this post. Good job we have been quite relaxed about the whole restoration process, as it’s taken us a couple of years to pull this room together. I can’t imagine completing a room start to finish in a short space of time. Maybe ..read more

I have been feeling a little stuck for a while… stuck creatively, stuck with work stuff, stuck with our house renovations. It’s been a struggle to find the energy to move anything forward and build any momentum – I appear to have hit a bit of a wall.   In reality, we live pretty slowly and simply and yet I am still feeling overwhelmed by life at the moment and that seems like a contradiction. It’s possible that I might have a vulnerability hangover tomorrow by sharing what I am finding difficult, but I always want to be really frank about my slow living experiences and never want to pain ..read more

It’s one of my favourite things to be able to gather round with a lovely bunch of folk and sit and eat glorious food in a beautiful setting – it feels like a really special way to mark an occasion. When Emma and I spoke about organising the Gather and Tend retreat at Tilton House, we were both sure we wanted to be able to eat outside in the beautiful courtyard. We were so lucky with the weather and it was a real treat to be able to dine outdoors at the beginning of October. If you missed Part One of the slow living retreat you can catch up here, but before you do, have a closer look at this g ..read more

A couple of weeks ago on a foggy autumn morning Emma from A Quiet Style and I made our way deep into the Sussex countryside with a basket full of pumpkins and a boot full of the most beautiful flowers for our first ever slow living day retreat, Gather and Tend. On our arrival at Tilton House we crunched our way across the gravel to be met by lit candles and the steam from a freshly boiled kettle. All was quiet… all was calm…   we gave ourselves time to drink in our beautiful surroundings and made some herbal tea whilst we set up for the day ahead. A lot of preparation had gone into ..read more