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Honesty 2

I put “Honesty” in my jar ten years ago to help keeping myself on track. It felt easy to me, if I would face the word each morning, I would stay true to my heart. Right? (read the previous post to catch up on what lead to this) This simple word wasn’t as easy as […]

Buying beads in 2014

The bead practice

The bead practice In August me and Mhairi celebrated the ten-year-anniversary of our bead movement. It made me long to revisit who I was back when we started, what my need with the practice was, and where I stand with it today. And I’ve had a growing desire to start to write about it again.  […]

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 […]

Is there a different way?

At the moment I am reading When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H Pink. It is an interesting read into the science behind energy, time and timing. As of now I am trying out two things from the book. The first one is tracking my days to see how my mental and […]

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, […]

The hedgehog

“Don’t come near me today”, I say to my husband. I am angry, sad and all in between. For no reason and all reasons. It’s one of those days when I can’t stand to be in my own skin. After listening to a podcast about our beads, a friend of mine asked “Do you ever […]

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 […]

Need

Since working through the book The Artist’s Way I have become on high alert to notice moments of synchronicity in life. Johanna had mentioned the book The Heroine’s Journey to me a few weeks ago, that she had been recommended it and that she was getting a massive amount from it. At the time, much […]

Lifeblood

My bead for the day was a red, round wooden bead. As I took it out of the jar I held it between my fingers and thought: blood. I thought about the blood that runs through my veins, how it needs to oxygenate in order to be vital and support my body. And I thought, […]

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 […]