tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13236757075012684792011-07-28T22:50:45.332+01:00Claire Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255921038469740266noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1323675707501268479.post-6692925623006008872010-08-10T09:33:00.007+01:002010-08-10T22:59:19.979+01:00

I was thinking about change this morning as I was walking along the beach....the sun was low in the sky, casting long shadows, the tide was low, with seemingly endless reaches of wave patterned sand to walk on. I try to walk on the beach every morning. It is a fabulous way to start the day and one way of appreciating my incredible fortune in living in such a beautiful area. It also gives me the

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Are you suffering from information overload? It's so easy isn't it?We sit at our computers and it's too much!!!Here is a great article I just read reminding us of the basics...How am I feeling? When you really learn how to do that, your life can be transformed..Check out..www.robblackburn.co.uk/2010/02/advice-overload/-"Even though I am feeling........(............)......I deeply and completely

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Tap before a troublesome phone call/email/visit... "Even though I don't want to make this phone call/email/visit, I deeply and completely love and accept myself..."a round of all the negatives, "don't like", "scared", resistant", whatever your feelings are.a round of positives, "I'm strong and confident", "This easy phone call", whatever works...2. Tap under the shower"Even though I don't

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Have been quiet for the last while on the blogging front. Sometimes family just takes over and this was never meant to be a confessional blog. Since I last wrote both my children have left home, one to University and one to a residential home. And what am I left with? the world....After a few weeks of picking things up off the floor, (the younger one went a bit mad), and a few weeks of

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The other day, I took my daughter to a local shop. She had asked to go to this shop partly, I believe, because of the lovely welcoming atmosphere created by the owner, Sheena. To buy new underwear from Sheena (it's lingerie shop), means to be cossetted in care. This is a local lady who knows her customers. It is very comforting.However, even as I opened the door and heard the tinkling of the

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Quite a blog title, how to change your world.What would you write with a title like that? It is so huge to be almost meaningless. I mean there are a million ways to change your world. You could keep up with your accounts, or give more to charity or start saying no or clean behind your cooker......Anything and everything changes your world, so what do I mean?There is one simple step to change your

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For me, it's 9.30pm., that time when an almost irrestible urge to crunch and munch comes upon me. In fact, when I feel it I almost don't have to look at the clock. If that longing comes upon me, I know its 9.30pm!What time is it for you? Most of us have a need some time in the day for that extra help. Perhaps its a biscuit at teatime (this is an English blog so to translate- perhaps a cookie

Claire Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255921038469740266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1323675707501268479.post-24889234528627150292008-07-24T22:54:00.005+01:002008-07-24T23:42:42.569+01:00

How long does it take to make a judgement about someone? Almost no time at all. We see them and instantaneously we have them pigeon-holed. Fat, middleclass, expensive hair, worried, ugly, gorgeous, nice shoes, fanciable, not fanciable, haughty, trashy..........Usually we either instintively feel good about someone or bad. We are comfortable in their presence, or not. We want to be nearer or keep

Claire Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255921038469740266noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1323675707501268479.post-70893458485864971502008-07-13T09:53:00.003+01:002008-07-13T10:29:19.270+01:00

I live in the North of Scotland. It is very beautiful. Tourists come from all over the world to enjoy our Highland scenery. There is only one problem, (don't tell the Tourist Board...)The sun doesn't shine. The sun doesn't shine in the Winter - that's OK, I don't expect it to. The sun doesn't shine in the Spring or Autumn - well, it does a bit, but allow me a bit of poetic licence.The PROBLEM is

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Actually, I didn't lose her- but it felt like I did.How?For the first time in many, many years, she was away from home. Not just for the day, but for the night, five nights in all. What to do with myself? In the morning, I padded by her bedroon quietly, so as not to wake her. Wake her? She wasn't even there. When I walked up the street, I kept expecting the feel of her hand in mine. It was

Claire Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10255921038469740266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1323675707501268479.post-65118900082755719932008-07-05T22:38:00.000+01:002008-07-05T23:03:23.562+01:00

Today I went fishing in the ocean of the Internet.Hour upon hour trawling autism sites, forums, groups, seeing who is out there in the world.My haul was huge, we are huge.Whole shoals of moans and groans, piranhas of no hopers, a sea of exhaustion and despair. My net caught children lonely in the playground, standing on the edge, year after year, with their parents weeping enough salt tears to

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Today I finished the final day of an amazing 6 day dance workshop.....At one time, I felt so alone and so lonely all I could do was weep. After a while, another dancer came up to me and joined me in my dance until I had moved through the emotion and was joyful again. Another time, I was feeling so vibrant and alive, I couldn't imagine ever feeling bad again- until a partner closed their eyes all

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