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Does Stress Cause Cancer?

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Does stress weaken the immune system allowing cancer to grow? It’s a widespread belief – but how accurate is it? Most scientific studies have found that stress does not increase the risk of cancer.… Continue reading

Poetry Friday

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Mindful Every Day ​​​​​​​I see or hear something that more or less ​​​​​​​kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle ​​​​​​​in the haystack of light. It is what I was born… Continue reading

Mindful Monday

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Poetry Friday

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i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart) i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever… Continue reading

Mindful Monday

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Poetry Friday

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We Shake with Joy We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body. Mary Oliver

On Birthdays and Ageing

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Today is my birthday. I am now of a “certain age”, but like my mother before me, I don’t talk about age.  Anne Lamott is a writer I admire hugely and her quote… Continue reading

Poetry Friday: When The Roses Speak

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When The Roses Speak (flowers on my desk) ​​​​​​​As long as we are able to be extravagant, ​​​​​​​we will be hugely and damply extravagant. ​​​​​​​Then we will drop foil by foil to the… Continue reading

Poetry Friday

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Hold on to what is good even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe even if it is a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to… Continue reading

Mindful Monday

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