Centre Stage, Sharing Stories

Each month in the Permission To Thrive Community we host a Centre Stage event. In this space we welcome members and guests to be in the spotlight and shine. It is a delicious opportunity to meet the wonderful women in our community, to find out more about their lives, their work and how they wish…

And The Finalists Include…

  It is with much gratitude and joy that I get to shout out a big ‘THANK YOU‘ to all the amazingly kind people who took the time to nominate me, in the first instance, and then vote for me in the What’s On 4 You Awards 2014. And the finalists include YvonneB! YvonneB received…

Knock, Knock… It’s Me Again!

Knock, Knock… It’s Me Again! Yes, back to Downing Street but this time with the lovely Fiona Small; a force in her own right and co-conspirator in making positive changes to people’s experience of life. I believe that once we have opened a door of communication with those who can help make a difference it…

Reach Out & Touch

Reach out & Touch… this has been the most emotionally challenging period in my life. I recently lost my father; he was and remains my hero, a loving dad & grandad and a devoted husband. What a heart wrenching, mind numbing time. There have been days when my heart felt as if it was physically…

Pay It Forward

I’m not a great fan of TV… I find it too depressing, too repetitive and rarely refreshing. But one of the things that always jumps out at me are the charity adverts (yes, it’s true, adverts are more engaging than most of the programmes!) The images, whilst often bleak and heart wrenching, do two things;…