It's been a feature of my life, ever since I can remember. Actually, since the age of about 13 when an older friend of my older sister unexpectedly opened up about the state of her impoverished life. She was almost twice my age. I was too immature and inexperienced to exchange any personal resources or offer up any words of wisdom. All I could do was lend a patient and listening ear, which I suppose is all that this young, depressed mother of three toddlers needed at that tim

Lavender. One of my favorite sniffs. Where would we be without our ability to access the world’s beauty by inhaling its countless scents and aromas? And equally, where would we be without our ability to identify other less pleasant smells that alert us to potential bacteria, pollution, decay and disease? In my biog/self-help book ‘Sh*t Happens, Magic Follows (Allow It!)’ I describe how I was once travelling in a car with the famous author, chiropractor and spiritual teacher/h