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...

October 2020 Soul Notes My daughter has just returned to sixth form where she has chosen her subjects for the next two years.  It's been...

September 2020 Soul Notes The poem above is a teaching story written in the native American teaching tradition and is the answer to the...

July 2020 Soul Notes Artist, Antony Gormley was the inspiration for this month’s Soul Notes. In his article “Lockdown reminded us that...

June 2020 Soul Notes Anyone who knows me, knows I am terrified of heights. Any height above my own. Clambering up a tree is no longer...

May 2020 Soul Notes I’ve written before about Mrs McDowell, my inspired infant school teacher. One of my earliest memories is of sitting...

A Supervision Reflection Listening to one of my supervisees recently, I noticed that he was struggling to connect with one of his...