Something was very different about this trip. Very different. And it was only once I got back I realised why. I was really really content the whole time. Satisfied. Present.  I wasn’t craving for things to be different. I was satisfied with whatever was unfolding. I wasn’t wishing the company to be different. I drank my drinks slower. I didn’t over…

Why are retreats so good? Cause we’re invited (forced) to do stuff that’s good for us, that makes us feel good, that reminds us why it’s worth doing good things in the first place. Like eating wholefoods. Hand on my heart, Sally puts together the most amazing wholefoods. The taste, the nourishment, the variety. I want her to cook for me every day. Her food is…

I’m was sitting in the garden of a Tuscan villa, overlooking the rolling hills, now a pale green and brown thanks to the relentless European sun. Bells in the distance clinking and chiming, clinking and chiming. I asked, ‘where’s that noise coming from?’. ‘It’s the sheep’ they said. And off in the distance, in the far far distance there they…