Meditation with Horses Retreats
How writing can increase Self-confidence and facilitate Self-care
Most of us are fully aware when we are confronted with a life crisis. Whether it is a quarter- or mid- or late-life crisis, we know when it hits us. If you are getting divorced, moving house, having a baby, retiring, being made redundant, suffering from an illness, undergoing an operation, have an empty nest …
I am reading Louise DeSalvo’s book Writing as a Way of Healing - How telling our Stories transforms our Lives, because I want to incorporate its content in my “Write Your Story” and "Your Magical Future" residential and virtual retreats. I have only read the first chapter and already I can realise what a powerful …
I have one all-consuming passion and that is the reading, writing and telling of stories. I feel pretty serious about my horses, my friends and pasta with pesto too, but nothing else has held my attention for as long: I suspect my love of stories and storytellers started long before I could talk. We are …
Getting up in the not-so-sunny south of France during the winter might not be as challenging as it is in Antarctica, but it has its inconveniences. Especially, if you have a hungry horde, or more specifically, a hungry herd, traipsing through the mud, making as much noise as possible, from sunrise every morning. I had …
Five years ago, early one morning, I received an e-mail from a potential retreat guest. She was interested in coming to my new Christmas/New Year's retreat here in the south of France. “Do you support Slow Tourism?” she wanted to know. Slow tourism? What that supposed to be? According to Wikipedia Slow Travel and Tourism …
Dr Margaretha Montagu 