The gift of a tiny bit of illness

Hmmm…I have had a brief touch of (what I assume to be) food poisoning, over the last 48 hours.
This has powerfully reminded me of some valuable lessons:-
I LOVE being healthy.
I LOVE being able to EAT.
i really appreciate my body usually staying at the same temperature, more or less all-over, more or less most of the time, in any [...]

Back again

Hi. Nearly 2 weeks since I last posted. Been busy but certainly have lots of things I need -or want- to articulate.
1. Mulling over my difficult (16 yo) student… trying to just keep a lid on my reactive responses, until Wednesday, when I am going to a presentation about dealing with challenging behaviours. Hope to [...]

Finally back…

Hi. 
I am finally back. It seems like about a week since I last posted, here. Work has been stressing me out. At the end of the last week (my last post here, below), I fainted twice, almost fainted the third day. Then discovered I have developed high blood pressure (odd, given that fainting is usually caused [...]

Enjoying work!

How odd! Lots of visitors on the 14th. But still no comments!
Well, I am almost through my first week back at work. Things are starting to normalise. Although, I do notice myself REALLY enjoying my work, and enjoying being there, and smiling spontaneously, and staying longer than I mean to…I notice these things because after [...]

Anticipation

Well, here I am again – only a couple of hours later, on Saturday, and still thinking about going to work on Monday.
I think now that, even though I have established a reasonable amount of calmess in advance, I won’t really calm down till Monday is over, and maybe Tuesday as well. It is anticipation [...]