Revolutionary Thoughts: Doing it Together
I am a lone wolf by nature. Who loves community.In truth I find trust hard. And know I can rely on myself to get shit done. I prefer to motor on ahead than spend hours in meetings where no decisions...
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Life in Technicolour
I remember many years ago I went to a counsellor.I was sixteen and struggling with anxiety and the beginnings of bi polar.She said to me something that I will never forget. For all the wrong...
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Essential Parenting Collection - FLASH SALE TODAY!
Just a quick post to share that there is a flash sale on the Essential Parenting Collection today. You may have spotted it on my side bar for a couple of weeks - and if you've been tempted then this is...
View ArticleFeeling Guilty Cos You're Not Doing Enough?
People ask me all the time - "what's next, Lucy?"Knowing, me being me I'll have something up my sleeve."Have you started another book?"Ummm, yes. I have 8, yes eight you read that right, currently...
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Dreaming Aloud... Together. Your ideas needed...
Hello loveliesYou know why I've been quiet?Cos I've been scheming, and planning... and worrying and dreaming and doodling and journalling and fiddling.Alone.Trying to dream aloud the new Dreaming Aloud...
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Books for Mothers
“Motherhood can be one of the most intense experiences of a woman's life. While there are many books that offer the “dos and don'ts” of effective parenting, few offer guidance on navigating the...
View ArticleLet's Make a Date!
Well dreamers, it looks like a busy couple of months ahead... lots of chances for us to meet... and dream aloud together. You could get one of my books signed... Talk about a publishing project......
View ArticleA New Name?
As you can see I have just put up the new blog header to try it on... but something is stirring in me ... the powerful need to combine the content and approach of The Happy Womb with Dreaming Aloud......
View ArticleCreative Integration... what happens when you decide to stop hiding and claim...
Thanks for all the feedback on Facebook and by email about my mega freak out yesterday.I walked in the door and announced to Mr DA that I'd just had a freak out."I know" he says " I read it on...
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The Myth of Happy Families - Why it Just Can't Work... and How You're Doing...
How's your day?Chances are you're tired. Or beating yourself up at getting cross with a child. Or have just had to break up a fight. Or are hiding on the internet just to get five minutes peace.Or...
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Cherry Blossom Picnic
This weekend saw our annual much-anticipated family celebration of spring, adopted from our soul- heartland Kyoto, Japan: o-hanami, the cherry blossom picnic. We have really made it our own at this...
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Life-changing, paradigm-shifting books by women, for women.
The industry says there’s no money in publishing. They talk about the death of books.A visit to the London Book Fair tells a very different story.There is PLENTY of money there. With a couple of...
View ArticleSpring Clearing
Every so often I feel the clutter in our house build up to screaming point... or suffocation.When I have been preoccupied with big creative projects, I don't have the energy or headspace to do anything...
View ArticleFeminist, pagan, self-help, New Age, hippy...
These are some of the words that come up as people try to define my books...And I always feel a little weird about them... cos none of them really fit.Sure part of this is the creative ego yearning to...
View ArticleOK, sex it is so
Listen there's something I've been holding back...For a long time now...And for good reason.Mainly because my mother reads this blog. And, despite the rather obvious clue of three children, I like to...
View ArticleCreativity is a cunt
"Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing."~ Henry MillerI did warn you we were going to be talking sex... and this isn't even the post I had planned...Cunt... it's been...
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Gatekeepers at the Creative Portal
Have you ever seen a sheelanagig?These carved female figurines stood as guardians, carved over the thresholds of medieval church doorways in Celtic lands. Hand on their vulvas, holding them open,...
View ArticleSwimming with Sharks
She sat in the boat. Soaking wet. Hair tousseled. Trying to talk to camera. Her voice starts to shake. Tears welling up.I realise now I don't need to be scared of the sharks.They're just getting on...
View ArticleThe Donut Man
My mother emailed me last weekend to tell me the donut man had died.He was only 53. Just dropped dead.I only met him a handful of times. All in the short exchange of buying fresh hot donuts. A...
View ArticleOn Commitment... And Being a Polygamist.
Marriage is the stupidest, craziest, most sensible, soul opening, frustrating, enlightening, heart opening thing I've ever done.Hands down.I doubt it. I doubt myself. Many times.But because I've made a...
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Happy May Day
Happy May Day! A day to celebrate fertility, and the Earth coming into bloom once more.To celebrate there's 20% off all my books - paperback and e-books - today only from The Happy Womb - all books...
View ArticleGetting Sidetracked... Overcoming the Distraction Saboteur to Creativity
Getting sidetracked is my number one epic fail... as my dear son would put it.I caught myself doing it last night. I was attempting to cook dinner. I then realised I had enough pastry to make a second...
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Grandmothers, Paint and Books...
Lots of excitement here.The new Dreaming Aloud website is moving ever closer, it's being created day by day... lots of lovely colour and fresh white space... I'm loving it and can't wait to show it...
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A Walk in the Blue
We headed out on an adventure yesterday, down to West Cork... bluebell woods are a spring family tradition...I remember walking the bluebell woods with MY granny. Now my girls get to do the same.This...
View ArticleI'VE MOVED!
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