I’ve spoken before about the paradox of smallness. How much we are encouraged to big ourselves up, promote ourselves and ‘put ourselves out there’, yet how the opposite side of retreat, trust and passivity can feel more life giving and in line with our core values at certain times in our life. The smallness I…

I remember a darker period of my life when I was suffering a musical injury in my left arm in the lower sixth at Chetham’s School of Music. I felt lost, I felt sad but I mostly felt that I needed something new to focus on to take away from the pain, both physical and…