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My husband often takes me to some random, but ultimately very interesting places! We recently visited a fascinating museum at Eastriggs in Scotland called ‘The Devil’s Porridge Museum’. The Museum tells the story of HM Factory Gretna – a munitions Factory in World War 1 where the explosive cordite was mixed. It was dangerous work […]

The Cambridge Dictionary definition of courage is ‘the ability to control your fear in a dangerous or difficult situation.’ Courage is not the absence of fear, rather it is doing what’s right in the presence of fear. Cor is, in fact, Latin for heart, so courage is doing what is in your heart – acting

February has been a more expensive month here at Well of Being. Often my client work is online so having a reliable laptop is central to me being able to fully connect with people. My old laptop was on its last legs, so I invested in a new one. I was busy working on Monday

Hello everyone. I hope the year has started well for you. May I wish you all joy and fulfilment in the year ahead. What does the start of a new year signify for you? We all have our own unique thoughts, feelings, and relationship with the beginning of a new year, which is perhaps influenced

For many of us this is a busy time of year with work and festive celebrations. Balancing everything whilst still looking after our own needs is often difficult. We may not be able to, or indeed want to stop being so busy – life can just be full on sometimes – but when life is

Whilst we were on holiday last month we drove across the Bealach na Ba pass. It is a beautiful scenic mountain pass on the east coast of Scotland. It is also a very narrow single track road with equally small passing places and some very steep drops at the edge of the road! The road

We are just back from a wonderful holiday touring Scotland around the NC500. It is a beautiful coastal route with the most incredible scenery…..and some very interesting roads! As we drove around, we marvelled at so many beautiful views and sights from the stunning west coast beaches to the enormous Smoo Cave on the north

As some of you will already know, September is a special month for me, for several reasons. One of those reasons is the glorious Annual Northeast Skinny Dip I take part in at Druridge Bay in Northumberland. I join over 1000 other wonderful humans to strip naked and run into the North Sea at sunrise

This month in Well of Being we are focusing on the impact of anxiety and how to move beyond its control. Anxiety is an emotion that many of us will avoid at any cost. It creates difficult emotional and physical responses within us, so it is understandable we don’t think favourably of anxiety! What if

When I was unwell recently with gastroenteritis, I noticed that I didn’t experience hay fever as severely as I had previously. I was telling Brian, my husband. “Well,” he said, “My Granddad always said the best cure for toothache is tight-fitting shoes”. There is such wisdom in his granddad’s words because, whilst I was not