Mhairi’s blog

An honest mess.

This week has been upside down for me for various reasons-totally upended by a stressful situation with work and my business that was very complicated to resolve and which threw me into a tail spin for much of Thursday. I am so grateful for honest friendships-I am new to my house and this city and […]

Permission to be honest

As I record books for a living I have to always be on high alert to any colds or coughs happening around me as if I go down with something it means I can’t work, and books have deadlines and I have clients and a full schedule and so this time of year is always […]

Honest Again

I am still steeped in the questions and thoughts around the idea of being honest with oneself. My first love was a guy who was an alcoholic. I attended AA meetings with him and was determined to be there and to help him break through and stay sober. During our time together I knew I […]

Honest

Ten years since we started the bead movement and its been honestly a life changing experience. It has built a frame work for what I think. Even with the beads its amazing how quickly I can live as if I have forever and so the basic thought of ‘spending’ a bead each day is necessary […]

100%

I am in this storytelling group that meets once a week which I am finding extremely insightful. It’s about learning how to tell your own story through life and what might be inhibiting you from potentially not living your most 100% genuine life. This week we had to write down the groups in our lives, […]

Senses

Restrictions leads to creativity. With a reduction in external stimuli and a change of pace with my own work schedule for the first time since lockdown began I have entered today into the melee of the bread and cake making masses. I made a cake with my 6 year old niece. It was the first […]

Wild and Precious Life

This week was a momentous week when my beads and I were united after 7 months apart. It felt like reuniting with an old friend when I carefully unwrapped the jar with my thousands of beads in it.I haven’t yet had a chance over the last few hectic days to count out how many beads […]

Back In the Bead Blogging Saddle

It’s been years since we’ve written, blogged, about the beads and feels a moment of strangeness to be back in the bead blogging saddle. But in these turbulent times I have found myself looking at the reason why we started the bead movement in the first place, things like taking control of my reactions to […]

Back

Someone wise once said that when he is hard pressed for time he spends twice as long meditating. That is good advice and a point worth remembering as I literally run from one thing to the next. I was up at 6am last Saturday after having worked until 10.15pm recording an audio book, which I […]

Happy Easter

Someone asked the question the other day “And what if it was easy?” on the same day a good friend of mine called me to ask a question about how much she should charge for a voice over job. When I told her what I thought she panicked thinking it was too much to ask. […]