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Sandra poses some deep questions about about the longings within, and the antidote to the narrowing of life since the pandemic.
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Sandra Hilton
Jun 25, 20215 min read
This is Normal...
June Soul Notes by Sandra Hilton
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Sandra Hilton
May 20, 20214 min read
Loving All the Parts
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.
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Sandra Hilton
Apr 23, 20216 min read
The Second Half of Life
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...
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Sandra Hilton
Mar 19, 20215 min read
Making Friends with our Anger
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...
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Sandra Hilton
Feb 19, 20215 min read
The Alchemy of Longing
Many of my conversations these days start something like this….”I just wish that I could ….” followed by a simple longing
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Sandra Hilton
Jan 15, 20215 min read
What Does Hope Taste Like?
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...
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Sandra Hilton
Dec 4, 20205 min read
Showing Up and Showing Off
December 2020 Soul Notes “you are not everything but everything could not be everything without you” These lines from poet and...
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Sandra Hilton
Nov 6, 20205 min read
Letting Go, Letting Come
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...
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Sandra Hilton
Oct 2, 20206 min read
The Heart-Led Path
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...
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Sandra Hilton
Sep 3, 20207 min read
Loving Our Inner Life
September 2020 Soul Notes The poem above is a teaching story written in the native American teaching tradition and is the answer to the...
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Sandra Hilton
Jul 30, 20205 min read
Art at the Kitchen Table
July 2020 Soul Notes Artist, Antony Gormley was the inspiration for this month’s Soul Notes. In his article “Lockdown reminded us that...
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Sandra Hilton
Jun 29, 20206 min read
Scaling the Ledge
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...
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Sandra Hilton
May 21, 20207 min read
Holding Space for Real Connection
May 2020 Soul Notes I’ve written before about Mrs McDowell, my inspired infant school teacher. One of my earliest memories is of sitting...
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Sandra Hilton
Apr 23, 20204 min read
Emotionally Vague: Responding to Embodied Experience
April 2020 Soul Notes Orlagh O’Brien, a graphic designer who conducted a research project into how emotions are experienced in the body,...
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Sandra Hilton
Mar 27, 20205 min read
Reaching Inwards
March 2020 Soul Notes Psychologist, Dr. Ruella Frank writes of the six fundamental human movements of reaching, yielding, grasping,...
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Sandra Hilton
Feb 21, 20201 min read
Trusting Yourself - the path to purposeful living
February 2020 Soul Notes Something a little different for this month as I bring you some listening rather than reading in the shape of a...
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Sandra Hilton
Jan 24, 20205 min read
The Hungry Wolf & the Art of New Beginnings
January 2020 Soul Notes In his poem 'For a New Beginning' nestled within his collection entitled 'To Bless The Space Between Us', John...
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Sandra Hilton
Dec 20, 20195 min read
Crafting our Stories
December 2019 Soul Notes I'm fascinated by stories at the moment. My stories. Your stories. Our stories. Novels. Movies. Documentaries....
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Sandra Hilton
Oct 23, 20196 min read
The Yin and Yang of Self Compassion
October 2019 Soul Notes I’m seduced to surrender when I read 'Song of Autumn' by Mary Oliver. She draws a picture of welcome and...
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