Reclaiming My Life, One Story At A Time
How long is it since I wrote for just the love of it? It feels like years. I’ve been writing to build a career for so long, the love just died. Betrayal and failure got their hands on my writing gift and tore it down. The love just died.
But here I am again.
Writing From A Sofa
I’m sitting here on my lunch break, showing up to write. I’m trying to find the fun in writing again. The simple joy of writing my life.
As I write this on my phone, delving inside myself to try and find the words, it strikes me how scary this can be.
Maybe one reason people stopped sharing stories is because we stopped valuing them. In the world of social media we are all performing, we’re all on show, we all have to be perfect.
So showing off our mundane lives seems to become less valued, even shamed. I get really scared showing my bare naked self. Scared of feeling lesser than, deficient and insignificant.
Poema S2 09 | Claire Musters on Taking Off Our Masks
My dear friend, author and speaker Claire Musters, joins me on the show today. Claire shares her powerful and challenging testimony of how she had to confront the masks she was wearing, the darkness in her life, and how through the love and grace of friends, her devoted husband and God, she found a way to healing and transformation – and in the process discovered her authentic self
What’s a Life, Anyway?
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But What a Gamble Friendship Is
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33 Years: Why It’s Time To Tell My Story
April 1st 1985.
It was the first Monday of Holy Week. Little was I to know it would become the moment my life descended into hell.
I still remember. I remember the lights of the ambulance lighting up my bedroom window. I remember creeping downstairs in a hallway lit up mainly by outside lights, seeing the ambulance outside. And I remember walking into our front lounge, seeing my mum, sitting in the chair.
Poema S2 08 | Kaitlin Curtice on Glory Happening
Kaitlin Curtice joins me on the podcast today. Kaitlin is a Native American Christian author, speaker and worship leader. Kaitlin and I discuss her new book, ‘Glory Happening’, real stories of finding the divine in everyday places.
Poema S2 07 | Matt Bays on Finding God In The Ruins.
I’m delighted to welcome author and speaker Matt Bays to the podcast today, sharing the powerful and moving story behind his book “Finding God In The Ruins”
Poema S2 06 | Tanya Marlow on Learning To Wait
Author and blogger Tanya Marlow joins me today to talk learning the art of divine patience, and stories from scripture and life which teach us about waiting on God. We all have deep longings and desires, we’re all waiting for something. Tanya helps us understand this in a deeper and hugely insightful way.
Poema S2 05 | Kent Dobson on Being Bitten By A Camel
Today I’m joined by author, speaker and theologian Kent Dobson. Kent, with great vulnerability and wisdom, shares his own spiritual journey, including his pilgrimage up what is often known as Mount Sinai – where he was bitten by a camel, both physically and metaphorically. This is a story he tells in his new book ‘Bitten By A Camel’