Articles

A selection of most recently published articles. I am open to further writing commissions on any aspect of my experience. At some point it is my intention to complete a short story about the reunion with my birth mother and publish a collection of poetry.

Falling in love with life – cultivating awareness and deep connection to the natural world

Falling in love with life – cultivating awareness and deep connection to the natural world

23 July 2023

Nature connection is the remedy we need in a highly distracted and disembodied culture. The 'sit-spot' is a core routine introduced to me by Jon Young for activating deep nature connection and...

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Regenerative wellbeing – life restoring life

Regenerative wellbeing – life restoring life

25 July 2022

The word ‘Regenerative’ refers to life’s innate ability to restore itself. This term gets used in a variety of ways, but in the context of wellbeing, it brings together a broad range...

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Radical rest as sacred action – surrendering to the great mystery

Radical rest as sacred action – surrendering to the great mystery

10 September 2021

Something is gravely out of balance when rest becomes a privilege, only accessible to those of us who are wealthy, sick, deeply fatigued or abandoned by the dominant culture for having failed...

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Honouring the call back home – an unfolding journey of nature connection

Honouring the call back home – an unfolding journey of nature connection

6 August 2020

For much of my childhood I struggled to make sense of life. I found solace in nature, roaming free on the Somerset levels. On day-long bike rides I’d go scrumping for apples...

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Reclaiming my inner spring – nurturing tender emergence after the deep winter of our menstruation

Reclaiming my inner spring – nurturing tender emergence after the deep winter of our menstruation

30 March 2018

If we are to look at menstruation as winter, ovulation as summer and the pre-menstrual time as autumn, then spring represents the first few days following menstruation. The energy of this phase...

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Birthing a deeper connection to myself and to the land – a sacred ritual to celebrate the cycles

Birthing a deeper connection to myself and to the land – a sacred ritual to celebrate the cycles

30 June 2017

Like many young woman I wasn’t initiated into the power of the menstrual cycle. For most of my adult life my period was at best an inconvenience and at worst a painful...

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Sam Lacey