These hands pushed my children’s sturdy little backs as they shouted with laughter on the swings in the park. Comforted them when they cried. Folded piles and piles of clothes and picked up all the bricks and the books and the matchbox cars. Led them through the school gates and then let them go.

For me, spiritual does not imply religious, but does include the concepts of love, acceptance and connection that perhaps all religions have in their origins behind the superimposed dogma and required beliefs. Certainly, when called upon to state my ‘religion’ I choose ‘spiritual but not religious.’ as the closest definition of my position.

Inside yourself you have a simple compass that has just two directions on it— "OK for me" and "not OK for me" This is your inner voice and you need to consult it in order to set your boundaries.