Writing and Podcasting
I am a hospice chaplain, yoga teacher, spiritual counsellor and writer currently studying for a Master’s in Public Theology.
I write about Theology, spirituality, yoga, meditation and wellbeing.
Mostly though, I write about what annoys me… this is mostly the modern ‘Wellness’ industry (which never fails to provide me with things to write about!) and about ‘Bad’ Theology (ditto)
I host my own Podcast called FKD UP BY FAITH which is about healing from the things above.
If you’ve loved and lost a dog you will know the pain of the days and weeks that follow. Everything is a reminder that my best friend is gone. His empty food bowl, his empty bed, dinner time, bedtime, walkies (I haven’t been on any kind of walk since)
A while ago, I joked online about feeling a failure because I don’t ( and won’t) go cold water swimming, and I don’t have a Podcast. I rather consigned these – along with the trends of ‘radical self-care and the ‘digital detox’ – to the ‘things I don’t do – let’s leave that to the influencers’ corner. Meanwhile, I focused on being consistent in at least one thing – my utter lack of self- promotion.
We all know that eating the right foods, and getting enough exercise are healthy choices. What isn’t true however, is that doing those things guarantee health. It isn’t a wellbeing vending machine transaction where we can insert organic kale at one end and get health out of the other. It doesn’t work that way. Health is complex, with individual, cultural, and economic factors. Health is social and societal.