Every Step You Take: Creating The World
Once someone said to me, ‘Everyone I know finds this world unbearable’. Instead of receiving her statement, I defended myself against it with thoughts: it was…
The World, the Dream, the Raven
I’ve been a human being for quite a while now, so plenty of opportunity to experience what a timid and frail species we are much…
Everything You Need is Right Here
Does anyone not love the Spring? Leaving aside that speaker in Eliot’s Waste Land, of course, who claimed that April is the cruellest month – and…
‘At the Round Earth’s Imagin’d Corners’*
People who know my background sometimes ask me why I decided to stop being a psychotherapist. I often reply, ‘So I could focus on my healing…
Like the New Look?
Greetings. Well, I’m glad to say this blog has decided to pull its socks up and take more of an interest in its appearance. Whether its…
Old Meg, Old Moira and the Prophetic Power of Poetry
Greetings. I hope you like this photo of me striding across Dartmoor. It’s a selfie I took the other day while I was wandering about up…
Healing the Addiction to War Part 2
In Part 1 of Healing the Addiction to War, I commented on Britain’s ceaseless waging of war all over the world, and the polluting and corrosive impact of…
Healing the Addiction to War, Part 1
So we in Britain are at war again. Not that we weren’t at war already, of course. We always seem to be at war. And if…
Your Fabulous Face
You might have noticed that an awful lot of people are talking about narcissism these days, enthusiastically labelling each other in typical narcissistic style. I hear…
How to be on Earth
In How to be in Your Body, Parts 1 and 2, I mentioned how being grounded has two aspects – firstly, being securely present in your body,…
Moira Lake 