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Louise Usher

Louise Usher

The Elephant and me

Imagining a photo which was worthy of a moment you could read about in ‘Eat, Pray Love’, I looked at the elephant. His trunk was strong…

Jun 12

The Elephant and me

Jun 12

Louise Usher

The Poppy and the writer

Is the writer in you overthinking things?

Apr 22

The Poppy and the writer

Apr 22

Louise Usher

Did you ever have something take you on another path than you first imagined?

And what happened next?

Oct 20, 2022

Did you ever have something take you on another path than you first imagined?

Oct 20, 2022

Louise Usher

How to do nothing

Yesterday, work had been challenging. And then Mum’s ‘stuff’ became a challenge too.

Oct 15, 2021

Oct 15, 2021

Louise Usher

FINDING THE RIGHT YOGA TEACHER FOR TRICKY HEALTH CONDITIONS

For the first time ever, I took myself into child’s pose and hid my face as I encountered a meltdown. Yoga and I have a love/hate romance…

Aug 22, 2021

Aug 22, 2021

Louise Usher

April 12, 2021 – lockdown easing

The rose coloured sky brings a dawn to this anticipated date. We sigh. What is this day? The new normal becomes abnormal once again…

Apr 12, 2021

April 12, 2021 – lockdown easing

Apr 12, 2021

Louise Usher

They took my baby — Louise Usher

Adrenaline under control, I replied, “not on my watch,” to the paramedic who had told us Jasmine would need to go into the pod with the…

Mar 13, 2021

Mar 13, 2021

Louise Usher

I was only half awake due to the morphine, when they got me in a wheelchair to move me from the…

The midwife assured me they were being wheeled behind me in their cot and soon after, we were all taken to a bed by the window. in a ward…

Jan 25, 2021

I was only half awake due to the morphine, when they got me in a wheelchair to move me from the…

Jan 25, 2021

Louise Usher

January

A new week? New year? New working opportunities? Or just labels which fuel anxious pressures?

Jan 4, 2021

January

Jan 4, 2021

Louise Usher

2020’s fault?

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Dec 31, 2020

Dec 31, 2020

Louise Usher

Louise Usher

Best seller in human stories. Travelling well with autoimmune. Creative non fiction ‘against the odds’ writer/editor. PhD researcher Phenomenology

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