And finally, if you’re a Filofax addict like me, check out the German site — they’re celebrating 90s years of plannery goodness with 9 days of 90 products for just 9 euros each! I’ve treated myself to a couple, and bought some Christmas presents too :)

Enjoy! xo

Unravelling

When the universe speaks

It’s two o’clock in the afternoon and I should be sitting on a plane in Heathrow airport, about to depart for San Francisco.

But I am not. I am at home listening to the washing machine whirling on the spin cycle.

There was a delay in getting the visa i needed to teach my workshop at the Teahouse Studios next weekend, which means i can’t even enter the country while there is pending paperwork (so says the immigration people). So my flight (which can’t be changed or refunded)… the friends i was excited to see… the workshop I was excited to teach… none of it is happening.

Disappointed doesn’t really cover how I’m feeling right now. Letting down the souls who’d signed up for my class makes my heart ache.

I love visiting the USA and always feel very at home while i’m there. Running an online business means I don’t see the boundaries between countries any more and I love how global my Unravelling classes always are. So it’s quite a shock to be denied entry to a country that I feel so attached to; a country where so many of my friends live.

But there is something else running underneath the disappointment, a knowing that perhaps this is what I need right now. That the universe is telling me to slow down and stopping doing, that my profound tiredness of the last few months cannot be remedied with an international flight. Of course, I’d rather have got this message without the loss of an expensive plane ticket and the cancellation of a workshop I was looking forward to teaching, but I’m trying to let go of all that. Worse things could have happened.

So, as always, i’m opting to take this in my stride.

Deep breath.

Onwards.