May 2022 Soul Notes “Remember when you were younger and you practiced kissing on your arm?” asks Pádraig Ó Tuama in his searingly...

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...

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...

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

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

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

The six fundamental human movements of reaching, yielding, grasping, pushing, pulling, releasing. These movements convey our intentions...