02/03/2026
This may be a controversial thing to post, but it feels important to share.
I haven't watched the news since 2021.
If it pops up on the telly, I turn over, if it interrupts my music on the radio, I switch stations, if it appears in my news feeds, I scroll by.
Not because I'm ignorant, lazy, uninformed or unsympathetic to the woes and troubles of others, in fact the complete opposite. As a self-diagnosed 'empath', I feel everything. I literally ride the waves of other's emotions - good or bad. And, do you know what, I expect most of us do - unconsciously or not.
During the height of Covid, I became engrossed in this rollercoaster. Anxiously hanging on to every word of 'the news', researching every article, YouTube, social media opinion, falling down endless rabbit holes of information - trying to make sense of it all. And do you know what happened? I went crazy. It was as if the bottom fell out of my world and all sense of reality as I knew it was lost. Until I realised...
Nothing I can do, read, say, can change the thoughts, words and deeds of others. Especially within a global context.
I will NEVER know the truth. No one ever will, because everyone's truth is different, and we will NEVER know the true agenda at play.
Of course 'the news' still filters in, through conversations, an unavoidable headline...and the bubble of fear that rises from the pit of my stomach and sits in my throat serves as a reminder to not let it in. It's just not worth it.
And, of course, for those in the finance industry, travel, geopolitics, etc, etc. I appreciate the need for needing an overview. But please don't let it 'in'. To darken your world, to close it in unnecessarily. Because there is so, so much more good in the world than bad - we're just not shown that worldview every night as we are fed the fear...over and over and over again.
I have learned that all I can really influence are my own thoughts, and perhaps have a tiny bearing on my own small circle of influence. Spreading as much love, kindness and care as I can in my own unique way. And that's how The Healing Space was born.
As the world continues to burn, wars rage, tensions rise, hate swells...please, please, please, remember what is good.
You are. We are. Nature is.
Turn off the news.
Spend your time with the people and animals you love, get outside A LOT and endeavour to make your tiny speck of the world as kind and beautiful as it can be. And, really, I think that's all we ever can do.
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