by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Sep 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
So I wrote a blog about 10 months ago about whether children make you happier. It looks like I’m going to discover the answer for myself… I’m due to have a baby girl in November! I’m pretty apprehensive about it. In just over a year I will have gone from being...
by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Aug 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
If I ever get ahead of myself, and start thinking how well I am managing to keep calm and happy in this crazy city, all I need to do is take the tube in rush hour. 20 minutes of having people barging past me, pushing their backpacks into my face as I try to find a...
by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Jun 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
I spent my honeymoon in Italy. I chose it because I have a strong attachment to the country – I first went there when I was 21, and spent a lot of time riding around on the back of vespas with handsome young men. Then I returned in 2012, following a difficult...
by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Jun 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Recently I was excluded from a group of friends. I know… this shouldn’t happen to an adult woman! It’s a boring story, which isn’t worth repeating, but basically I annoyed someone in the group and got knocked off the social media distribution. It was an...
by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Apr 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Since my last blog about doing a silent retreat, lots of people have asked me how to start meditating. It’s something I haven’t written about before because there is so much information out there. But it seems that all the information can be confusing...
by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Mar 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve just come back from a 10-day silent meditation course. I did my first one in 2012, and it was the best thing I have ever done – I don’t say that lightly. I’ve since done five of them, as well as an 8-day course and the odd 1-day course. People often ask me...
by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Mar 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
I just got engaged! For those of you who have known me a while, you will know this has been a looooong time coming. But amazingly, miraculously and magnificently, it finally has. Suddenly the world seems full of sunshine and rainbows – I walk around with a big...
by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Feb 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
When I started blogging, I made the decision not to write about romantic relationships. My love life was pretty much non-existent, and it was an area I felt too vulnerable in to share. I still feel a bit uncomfortable writing about it, if I’m honest. My love life is...
by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Jan 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
So far, January has felt like an impossibly busy month. After a fairly hectic Christmas break, it seems like there is just SO much to do, and my ‘to-do’ list surfaces in my dreams making me tired and inefficient during the day. When I’m feeling very busy, I start to...
by izzymcrae@gmail.com | Jan 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
For as long as I can remember I’ve been going on holiday to Galloway. It’s in the south west corner of Scotland – a part of the country that’s often ignored as people power up the motorway to Glasgow or Edinburgh and beyond. My earliest...