Image, La felicità – work in progress by stefozanna, via Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license. I am reminding myself it is okay to be a work in progress: to begin, to carve and craft as I…
Right now, writing here feels like ‘howling into the wind’ to use a phrase from Joanna Penn from a recent podcast interview on The Creative Penn. Joanna describes how she felt in the early days of writing…
I would like to acknowledge seven key people I have been reading online, whose journeys I have been following and who have been an inspiration to me. They have been like stars in a constellation guiding…
So why ‘Transcending’? What does it mean and why is it my focus? How does this word pull so much together for me? You could ask my yoga teacher from a long time ago how he…
You will see under the blog title that my key theme words are ‘the extraordinary power of the ordinary self…’ These words come from a book by Marcia Westkott, ‘The Feminist Legacy of Karen Horney.’ This…
‘Transcending’ is an exploration of the ways that we rise, overcome, climb across and pass beyond. It celebrates the extraordinary power of the ordinary self in creativity, writing, in love, in the workplace and in our family contexts, such…

