April 2022 Soul Notes “So much of what delights and troubles you Happens on a surface You take for ground.” writes John O’Donohue in his...

March 2022 Soul Notes Photo by Andrew Lloyd-Seetim As spring nudges those of us in the northern hemisphere into the world, how many of us...

The theme of this month’s Soul Notes looks at what binds us. This piece ponders the question as restrictions loosen in the UK...

January 2022 Soul Notes Thanks to Andrew Lloyd-Seetim for this image Mary Anne Perrone’s poem reminds us that life is for living. That...

December 2021 Soul Notes “This is the season to go home far within” …… “as I wrap myself in winter silence and curl into its rooty...

Autumn 2021 Soul Notes This week, I returned to working face to face with some of my therapy clients. It’s been a plan long in the...

Sandra muses on the Naming of Things and shares wisdom from the imitable Aldous Huxley.

Twenty five years ago, I travelled to the cave city of Uplistsikhe, one of the earliest urban settlements in Georgia in the Caucuses....

Sandra poses some deep questions about about the longings within, and the antidote to the narrowing of life since the pandemic.

June Soul Notes by Sandra Hilton

In this edition of Soul Notes, I explore what it’s like for us all to emerge from our home cave and back to a life of hugs and socialising.

Adolescence and middle-escence have much in common. A transition where we move from one life stage to another.

April 2021 Soul Notes There’s a time in our lives when we feel overwhelmed by our hormones. The familiar shape of what we feel to be our...

This month's Soul Notes is devoted to our anger. Often seen as the emotion to be fearful of...I invite you into the angry space...

There’s me, my mum and my daughter. We’re on a wasteland, littered with fallen supermarket trollies. A giraffe wanders through the middle

Many of my conversations these days start something like this….”I just wish that I could ….” followed by a simple longing

January 2021 Soul Notes Ironically, in spite of the “sameness” of the shape of my lockdown days, I don’t quite know what to expect of...

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” sings Bing Crosby over the radio. And it is. Just not as we know it.

December 2020 Soul Notes “you are not everything but everything could not be everything without you” These lines from poet and...

November 2020 Soul Notes Like many of us, I’ve been working out of a small room at home for the last 8 months. My desk is set up in a...