After the last post on death and dying - I felt there was an important question to ask - do we know how to live?! Let's be honest, there are handbooks for everything and most of them tell us we are have much to learn, so when Cynthia Hickman a psychotherapist wrote a 'Handbook for Being Human' I was intrigued. My interview with Cynthia talks to how we grow up in this world without buying into the fear factor that is fed to us left, right, centre, up and down! 

Towards the end of the interview Cynthia shares how important we all are to the culture of our world. I so love her call for us all to be part of the change we want to see in the world - to change the culture of being human from the ground up. I see bulbs are sprouting already...

For bookings and to connect with Cynthia Hickman, check out her Website
The book covered today Being Human
To read some of her blogs - connect here 

We have so many pictures of death and dying. What has transpired from these interviews is the way we can reduce those we deeply love to the physical form they have held in our lives and then miss out on the blessing of what is available after they pass.
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So should we be questioning our use of the words we use around death and dying? For example, have we really 'lost' a loved one like we might lose a ring or a possession, or can we not 'lose' what was never ours to own in the first place?

Links to 
Jasmine Prentice's blogs
Kate Chorley's Living with Quality...Oh and Cancer
Deborah Savran's Wellbeing website
DeborahSavran's music - 
Anita's Celebrant business

Online dating has been around for more than 20 years, but has exploded in recent years and potentially become a necessity due to a pesky virus that has way too many living in silos. This has stopped one of the most natural processes from taking place. Coming together and meeting new people. Where has all the dating gone? Now, it seemed, life was more about ticking boxes and working out what you wanted, what you liked and didn't like, and finding someone who fitted that picture. The algorithm would do all the hard work for you!

But it seems it is not quite that simple. Here you will find a series of interviews that share the varied experiences that come from online dating. The online-dating Compendium - Our Compendium of Love.
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Clearly this is but a peek into the world of online dating, there are many diverse experiences missing, however, what has been shared here will sound and feel familiar regardless of perceived differences.

​Enormous thanks to my wonderful interviewees - every one of them so willing to share their experiences of online dating. We experiences from teens to 70s!

Dating seems to have changed. It is not just about the restrictions and the need for more online interaction, even before that, there was a sense that you shouldn't commit to a relationship too early because we might miss out on something 'better'. That better seems to mean playing the field but always searching for 'the one'. Pictures galore of what we think 'the one' is and all the while there is no true connection being looked for or found.

This is a two part blog on relationships and exclusivity. I am starting with exclusivity because that is what triggered the realisation for me that dating had changed, and my interest to discover in the way we date now. 

What I have discovered is a sense that there is a push-pull between the connection we are looking for and the fear of being alone that makes us accept the destructive games and 'settle' for a crumb of attention rather than the connection we truly know we all want and deserve.

I love how these women share some top tips for setting standards and knowing your self-worth way before you meet someone. 

Meet Hannah, Marika, Shelley and Rosie. 4 slightly different perspectives.

Coming up any day now is an audio that was started by a collaboration with The Post where there was just so much to share about our dating scene and what we class as a relationship and love. The interviews build on some of our previous interviews and just highlight that we are really living such a reduced version of the Love we all know should be in our relationships.

Here are links to some of the previous audios
Communication in Relationships
Decency and respect in Relationships
Gay relationships and Same Sex Marriage
Intimacy - Up close and Personal
Time to Love Unconditionally
The Power of Love and the Heart

If you want to read some of the earlier articles from the post - check them out here 

Sara Harris from Living Stillness and founder of Follow Your Flow explains how our body has a cycle which has different seasons just like the seasons around us. If you want more information about the different quality and stages of the cycles, check out Sara's amazing and programs through Follow Your Flow. She also has audios and blogs that can support a deeper relationship with your cycle - enjoy all the website has to offer!