Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. On rest.
As I reflected with my Spiritual Director on rest, she recalled a podcast conversation on seven types of rest / rest deficiency. Listening to Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith and Mia Freedman [...]
Creative Contemplation. Knitting
A new habit My family call it an obsession. I do bring it with me when I know there will be moments of stillness: while the children are encouraged into bed; while the [...]
Listen to the Whispers
Poems from Whisper On My Palm Whisper On My Palm is a new collection of poems I will have published with Resource Publications in 2022. These are poems through the experiences of grief, illness, [...]
Living well with unwelcome circumstances
Unwelcome Circumstances Pandemic Exhaustion & Chronic Fatigue When I heard reports of the exhaustion people were experiencing after these two years living with a global pandemic, I empathised. First, because I, too, [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 57
On the clear and gentle path at last Today I am in solitude and rest. I slept in. I wrote in my journal. I took the weighted blanket to my [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 52
I mentioned in a recent post that many who experience Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are almost entirely debilitated by it: the effort to get out of bed is enough to send them straight back to [...]
On the freedom of solitude and shedding a skin of ‘shoulds’
As I sat down to write this, at 9pm on Saturday night, I had just finished watching A Quiet Passion for the first time. OK, I finished five minutes before that. As I sat [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 23 (Lent Reflection 1)
Contemplation Corner Holy Solitude. That’s the name of a book I got to inspire my reflection this Lenten season. (Holy Solitude, Heidi Haverkamp) With characters from biblical stories and from the history of religious [...]
