have you got re-entry anxiety?

May 9, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

As I type, the news is telling me that, tomorrow, the UK Government will announce that from May 17 people will be allowed to hug one another again. According to the Telegraph, the Prime Minister will encourage ‘common sense’ when conducting said hugging. I’m not sure what this means. Presumably people who were going to […]

if we’re serious about change, we need to keep going

March 14, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

We started the week with International Women’s Day and (in the UK anyway) end it with Mother’s Day. What were you hoping for this week? Stories of empowerment? Change? Hoping, perhaps, for hope? I’d like to say the same but as I sit here, I cannot help but think it has been a very dark […]

lockdown: how are you coping?

February 12, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

So, how are you? No, really – how are you? Did you find January tough as old boots? It’s not my favourite month by any stretch. I knew it was going to be hard but didn’t realise it was going to be so rocky that my emotional track and trace would crash nearly every day. […]

quitting social media: six months on

December 14, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Little more than six months ago, I wrote about taking a break from social media. I did it for lots of reasons. The first thing I’d do in the morning with my cup of coffee was check Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn. It became a circle of scrolling/updating that saw me lose half an hour and […]

Run: ashburton

December 12, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

If you like running and exploring new places then this 10k around Ashburton may just be what you need.

six important life lessons

October 5, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

Your mental wellbeing is everything Hands down it whips the ass of everything else. Money, career, relationships; it won’t mean a thing unless we take the time each day to look after ourselves. If this means saying no more, letting go of something or walking away from someone then so be it. Never forget the […]

say hello to hope

September 23, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

I am experiencing emotional turbulence right now. Are you, like me, looking around and wondering what is going on? The other day I went into a restaurant and a masked-up waiter aimed what looked like a gun at my head. It turns out he needed to take my temperature before I was allowed in for […]

tips for long-distance hiking

September 15, 2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

Get some practical tips to make your own long distance hiking adventures ones to remember.

Explore: The Coleridge way

September 11, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

A while ago, a friend was telling me she had just been for her first run in a long time. “I couldn’t help but think it would be much more fun if I were walking,” she complained. These days, I see what she means. And so it came to be that on my 42nd birthday […]

It’s your choice

September 1, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

It is easy to get wrapped up in the constant stream of information about how we ‘should’ lead our lives – adhering to scripts written by other people that we quietly hope to successfully emulate and even outdo. But it’s true what they say: what works for you may not work for me. Yet still […]