What is Hilarapy? I’ll get to that. It’s Sunday morning, my commitment to writing a blog every week continues with gusto and aplomb. I’m writing like no one’s reading and farting like no one’s smelling. Joke! The dog is here. I’m writing because I love doing it, and that’s freedom. I refuse to hang my …
We live in a fear-based society. We cannot control anything outside of ourselves. Billie Eilish said, “I’ve stopped reading Instagram… it’s ruining my life.” She’s 17 and creating music with her brother. Her videos receive in excess of 150 million views. She’s outrageously famous, and yet she’s the target of constant horrific online abuse. But …
I trust everything to be okay in the end. But where is the end? In short, I have an up and down mental health thing. Some days I feel great and other days I feel fearful. My inner world feels gloomy and grey and I worry about life. Why am I here? What is the …
Can you imagine living in a world of seriousness? Some don’t have to imagine. A humourless society is rigid and narrow-minded, entrenched in rigid ideology, cruelty, and tunnel vision. Humour embraces humanity; it obliges us to be forgiving, open-minded and encourages empathy. In my opinion, humour is the only correct response to the absurdity of …
I just woke up from a dream in which I was clubbing with my older sister and a couple of friends. In the dreamscape, everyone disappeared. They all went to get drunk and high and I was left alone and I spent my time looking for them. What has that got to do with fear …
I’m young, maybe eight or nine-years-old and I’m sitting on the floor in the TV room watching French and Saunders, my favourite comedy sketch show. I remember having this feeling of overwhelming joy in my chest, and I said to myself, “They have an amazing job. I want to do that job!” I imagined what …
Everything happens at the right time. Don’t push the river, all is well, hold your horses, chill ya boots and for the love of Dickens, be patient. The first thing Louise Hay taught me is that everything happens at the right time. I’ve been reading her stuff since the early 90s. I love her. She …
Lately, I’ve been waking up with ‘situational low-mood’ brought on most likely by several factors: late nights, still too much negative news, and feelings of being cut off from normality (what is normal these days?) I’m experiencing a very real sense that general life as we know it has vanished. Too much junk food, not …
The day before my gig at the 2020 Recovery Day Festival, I felt off, nervous, and worried. All week I’d been anxious about hosting. If I analyze why it’s the same old story. It’s tied into my old beliefs of ‘not being good enough,’ fear of not being perfect and comparing myself to other people. …
What happens when we own our stories? By ‘owning’, I mean we embrace, accept and share those unique parts of who we are, without expectation of approval or sympathy. Every one of us has a story, or, if you’re like me, several stories linked together like chapters in a grand adventure novel. Yes, of course, …
