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What Happens When we Cause Inadvertent Harm?
At Glasgow Airport on my way home to Tiree, I stepped away from the outsize luggage conveyor belt into the corridor behind a little lad riding on a wheelie suitcase…
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Domestic Abuse Haha
I’m sitting in the CalMac lounge waiting on my ferry back to Tiree. It is packed with more people than usual because a band of lively players are entertaining the…
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Does Lying Make You Blind?
There is a direct correlation between the stress of lying and strain in the eyes according to Bates, the father of natural eyesight improvement. I’ve found this assertion surprisingly resonant.…
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Birthday Blues
Celebrating an anniversary of any kind can be bittersweet, but especially so if your special day also marks an experience of loss. I’ve always been awkward about birthdays, but I…
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How to Support a Grieving Friend
When someone close to us is bereaved, it’s really hard to know what to say. We often fall back on cliches, out of ignorance and lack of practice. When my…
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Recovering the Lost Years
This quote recently appeared in my Facebook feed and it struck a chord with me. One of my most significant griefs is that I have spent the most part of…
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Meeting the Envy Mood with Grace
When a friend, gave me a slightly intoxicated effusive compliment about how gorgeous my newly white hair looked, my husband said when she’d gone, ‘You know she doesn’t mean it?…
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Do you have a Bruno in Your Head?
In the brilliant Disney film Luca, the title character is a sea being having a human experience. He’s full of curiosity tempered with trepidation — much as we are as…
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Blinded by Love
When I woke with acute pain in my eye and excruciating light sensitivity, I knew immediately what ailed me. I took myself back to bed, layered up with eye masks,…
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How are You?
Someone said to me the other day, ‘You’re looking well, Rachel. How are you?’ I answered, to my surprise , ‘I’m better than I’ve been in ten years!’ Well, that…