Leah Marjorie Cox

Hello! I’m Leah, a writer and poet living in a tiny hamlet on the far western edge of the English Lake District. From this wild and windswept corner of the world I share my poems, stories and inner thoughts on everything from creativity to death as I grapple daily with the conundrum of what it means to live a meaningful life. If you’re the highly sensitive type with a love of nature and a longing for the simplicity and quiet of times gone by, I think you’ll feel right at home.

Blog Archives

2023

October 23
You Have to Keep Letting Go
September 26
I Must Claim Myself as a Writer
September 13
Lying In Bed One Evening
September 5
The Way Life Should Have Been
August 10
Someday
April 3
Shadowlands
March 21
Am I Ridiculous?
March 15
Longing For Spring
March 9
Lagoons of Sanity
January 30
Glimmers

2022

December 11
Simplicity
November 27
Christmas Anxiety
November 19
Class
November 11
The Drive for Self-Expression
October 29
True Warmth
October 27
Incompatible
October 26
Impatient for Progress
October 24
Happy News (and the Debilitating Voice of Perfectionism)
October 3
Sacred Longing
September 27
Hearth
September 23
The Rhythm of the Soul
September 13
Slowing Down and Feeling Guilty
September 9
The Beauty and Heartbreak of Transitions
September 2
When Your Sensitive Heart Is Filled With Fear
August 25
A Thrilling, Dangerous Feeling
August 18
The Life We Long For
May 4
Back to Basics
May 3
Give Your Love Away
April 26
Slow and Imperfect Progress
April 12
Free to Be Me
March 28
You Can Do Difficult Things
March 22
You Were Born for This Time
March 15
Is Everyone Okay?
March 8
A Childish Wish?
March 2
Softening
February 22
Fat Balls
February 15
Catching Up
February 5
All That Is Lost
January 28
Attention (Diary Extract)
January 21
Festering Creativity
January 17
The World Was Made For You
January 5
The Great Undoing

2021

December 29
The Box
December 21
Accessing Possibility
December 20
Ash
December 15
The Baffling Business of Christmas
December 13
Peace
December 9
One Day
November 30
Fireside
November 29
Purification
November 26
The Tiny Blue Egg
November 10
How to Thrive in a Toxic World
October 19
Geared for Gratitude
October 12
Coming Back to Life
October 11
Playtime’s Over
October 5
You’re Not Crazy
September 29
Maybe It’s Just Time to Trust Yourself
September 25
You Don’t Have to Solve All the World’s Problems Alone
September 23
Good Girl
September 22
And Just Like That
September 14
We Can Spare You
August 31
The World We Hope For
August 24
Simple. Life Changing.
August 20
Today’s Treasure
August 19
The Gentlest Touch
August 10
I’d Like a Dippy Egg!
August 6
Stardust
August 3
The Medicine Girl
July 30
Bloom Anyway
July 27
Admitting Your Life Purpose
July 19
It’s Not Naughty To Do What You Love
July 12
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Spotted Flycatcher
July 6
What High Sensitivity Looks Like
June 30
Why Is It so Hard to Live a Simple Life?
June 25
Healing Regret, Sadness and Loss
June 15
Don’t Wait ‘Til Dark
June 11
Self-Loathing, Shame, Guilt, Regret
June 8
I’d Rather Scoop Chicken Poop Than Go Against My Soul
June 4
Boundaries: Becoming a Little Less Lovely
June 1
Is Your Light Too Bright to Bear?
May 25
Give Me Something Real
May 11
Up Close and In Love
April 21
Moving Home and Making Space for the Grief of Transitions
April 4
Beautiful Self Doubt
March 23
Why Are You Crying?
March 16
Criticism Isn’t Optional
March 9
Am I Weird?
March 2
Poem for the Sensitive Ones
February 20
The First Flash of Spring
February 18
The Baby Spinach
February 2
We Protect What We Love
January 27
Words Can Be Used To
January 26
Woman Rising
January 20
The Origami Bird
January 19
Like the Honey Bee
January 12
Why Time Spent Healing Isn’t Selfish
January 5
Reasons to Rejoice (Singing Meditation)

2020

December 23
You are the Light of the World
December 11
A Young Couple Wander Through the Woodland
December 3
Winter, Witches and Woollen Things
November 21
The 36 Year Old Baby Tooth
November 9
Our Grief for the Earth is Sacred and Necessary
November 2
On the Verge of a New Beginning
October 6
Show Me Where It Hurts
September 22
If It Isn’t Perfect, It’s Pointless
September 8
A Soft Landing
September 1
The Periphery
August 26
What Are Your Care Instructions?
August 21
Inhale. Exhale. Breathe.
August 18
Fallen Dreams
August 11
The Unstoppable Life Force Within You
July 28
Do You Remember the Time?
July 21
Time Enough
July 18
Courage
July 16
No Problem
July 14
How to Communicate With Animals
July 8
Digestive Biscuits
July 3
The Call of the Lapwing
June 30
Tired of Wearing a Mask
June 22
The Joy of Refusing to Choose!
June 16
To the Woman Who Doubts Her Wisdom
June 11
The Most Necessary Task
June 9
When Eight Women Gathered to Listen and Write
June 5
Prayer to the Great Winds
May 26
Small and Mighty
May 21
Grieving the Loss of Silence
May 19
The Courage to Stay Close to Ourselves
May 12
The Greatest Privilege of My Life
May 6
The Call of the Earth
April 28
The Danger of Spiritual Insight
April 15
Embrace What Is Natural to You
April 15
Reminders to Myself
April 8
Healing Old Wounds: How Self-Love Works
March 28
A New Earth
March 26
The Girl in the Burgundy Dungarees
March 24
Find Your Medicine and Use It
March 23
Before Dawn
March 19
The Tree Without the Bird
March 17
Our True Anchor
March 15
Daydreaming Again
March 4
The Tiring Ease of Modern Life
March 2
This Is One of the Most Pervasive and Troublesome Ideas on the Spiritual Path
February 26
An Invitation to Rest
February 20
Despite Everything
February 13
Trusting the Thing You Bring
February 4
Elixir of the Forest
January 28
How Can This Much Beauty Be Possible?
January 14
A New Year’s Message and a Little Song

2019

December 24
The Soft Light of Winter
December 13
Hello My Other Self
November 28
The Quiet Rebel
November 27
The Work We Are Meant For
November 22
For the Inner Explorers
November 19
I Have Taken to Saying Thank You to the Trees
November 12
Preferring to Spend Time Alone
November 5
Comparison, Life Force and Your Heart Light
October 8
My Spiritual Method
October 8
Beacon of Presence
October 8
Grace
September 20
Initiation for Holders of the Light
September 11
Sacred Silence
August 16
Folly
August 13
Thank You for Being You
August 12
The Wild One
August 6
If People Knew the Truth About Me
July 23
The Gift
July 9
I’m Sorry
June 25
The Heart’s Longing
June 18
A Precious Kind of Friend
June 11
Sadness
June 11
The River of Kindness
June 4
The Most Valuable Thing We Can Do?
June 4
Dissolving Fear
May 29
The Great Paradox
May 19
How Acceptance Heals
May 7
The Heart Is Made to Break
April 30
Trust Everything
April 23
The Delicious Madness of Waking Up
April 23
The Quest to Win Love
April 16
Your Heart: Wild, Unruly and Highly Inconvenient
April 14
Dancing With Grace
April 14
The Way the Words Come
April 11
Advice for Writers
April 9
It Is Not Lucky to Do What Is Natural
April 4
The Heart’s Demand
April 2
Made to Shine: A Note on Being Loud and Humble
March 26
Wandering Home in Early Spring
March 26
Who Am I to Do That?
March 19
This Is What You’re Here For
March 12
There’s Wisdom in the Darkness
March 5
Healing Anxiety
February 19
Worthy, Now
January 31
The Perilous Business of True Art
January 29
Have You Forgotten?
January 26
At the Kitchen Sink
January 22
The Endless Invitation
January 15
The Man Who Rolled the Lemons
January 8
Rebellion, mischief and originality in a world that favours conformity
January 3
Oblivion for the Light

2018

December 14
Love’s Longing
December 11
The Joy Thief
December 6
Take me to a place where the robin sings
December 4
Awakening and the falling away of all you knew
December 4
Gather Your Pain Like a Posy of Wildflowers
November 28
Love, light, happiness and the fiery hell of Mordor
November 20
Life will burn everything, and it will do it all for love
November 9
In the name of self-improvement
November 6
Torn between the familiar and the possible
November 1
For the deeply sensitive
October 29
Another lost piece of your soul, longing to be loved
October 28
Rule breakers
October 26
Your differences are not defects
October 26
Don’t ask me if I’m an anxious person
October 25
Daring to say yes to your heart
October 2
You don’t have to do that
September 25
Learning to be yourself, fully and unapologetically
September 18
Is people-pleasing wearing you out?
September 11
Have you confused the spiritual path with being happy?
August 31
Treating disordered eating with compassion
August 21
The world is a beggar and it longs for your song
August 14
Sold the ‘high vibe’ lie
August 7
Life’s generous hand
July 17
Before everything, there is you
July 12
The kind of love: a poem to affirm your part in this world
June 19
How to recognise a true calling
June 13
The way the soul speaks
June 5
Open Palm
May 18
The Beauty of You
May 1
Triggered, again: how to move from reactivity to peace
April 24
Our One True Purpose
April 17
The Wisdom of Our Hearts
March 27
In the beginning you were dancing, but are you dancing still?
March 20
7 spiritual principles that will help you create anything you want
March 8
Uncomfortable Feelings
February 20
“How do I become more comfortable with and secure in the unknown?”
February 14
A romantic partner cannot give us our happiness
February 6
Finding Peace Beneath Fear, Anxiety, Overwhelm, Uncertainty and Doubt
January 15
What’s the Point?
January 9
The Little Girl and the Mother Ship
January 3
The Changing Desires of the Awakening Heart

2017

December 22
A Call to Togetherness
December 15
Like it or not, you’ve been chosen by God
November 15
Can I Be a Leader if I Shy Away From the Spotlight?
October 30
Apply Generously, Daily. (Instructions on the Application of Love)
October 26
Expanded Consciousness and Becoming the Person You Were Born to Be
October 11
Following your heart doesn’t always mean getting what you want
October 6
A game changer for every relationship
September 26
“My responsibility is toward my own heart”
August 27
Move in the Direction of Joy
August 23
The sky never yells “get out”
August 15
Never let the seven year old inside you die
August 3
How to get better sleep: A journey into essential oils with Zane Zillner
July 7
Urgh. Why is life advice so contradictory?
June 7
You can let go of the guilt. Because we all do better when you do less.
May 30
What to Do When Trying to Define Yourself Is Killing Your Spirit
May 26
The Courage to Do Something Different
May 3
New perspectives on anxiety
March 29
How to be happy? Start by looking in the right place
January 5
Creativity: It’s About Getting Turned On. A Lot.
January 4
Find Your Own Path and Embrace the Journey
January 2
It Might Be a New Year But It’s Not Time for a New You

2016

December 23
You’re Not Here to Judge Your Calling
December 19
The Fog Won’t Last. Letting the Emotional Weather Pass On Through
December 14
Find Yourself Always Rushing into the Future?
November 30
Dark Days, Dark Nights: What If The Winter Grey Didn’t Need to Make You Blue?
November 25
The light in your eyes is never more than a thought away
November 15
Let your sensitivity lead the way
November 1
Sinking Into Trust
October 20
For All The Times You Doubt Yourself
October 10
Why You’ll Never Find Your Purpose (and Why That’s a Really Good Thing)
September 28
Autumn When It’s Time for Autumn: Respecting (and Trusting) the Seasons of Your Life
September 26
So you think you create your own reality?
September 19
How to escape the cage of limiting beliefs
September 7
The ‘experts’ aren’t always right, you know
September 2
What to do when life isn’t going the way you want
August 30
Back to Front Living
August 22
Purpose, passion, calling: A journey, not a one-time event
August 15
Synchronicity
August 4
The day I met Jack and why “too late” is a state of mind
August 3
Do You Want to Build a Business or a More Beautiful World?
July 8
Dear Little [Insert Your Name Here],
July 5
What It Means to Follow Your Heart
June 21
Where the Distance Between Heaven and Earth Collapses
May 9
How to Deal With Big Change in Your Life
February 8
How to Never Choose the Wrong Path
January 18
Choose yourself: notes on being selfish and letting go of guilt

2015

October 26
Let the Anger Come
June 8
Daring to Speak Your Truth
May 11
Death, Loss, Change and Freedom

2014

December 8
A Peaceful Thought for a Difficult Day

Guest Articles & Poetry

4 Ways Being Highly Sensitive is a Divine Gift | Highly Sensitive Refuge
You Are Broken, Let Me Fix You | Tiny Buddha
Before Dawn and Elixir of the Forest | Highly Sensitive Refuge
Not a Defect: A Poem for Highly Sensitive People | Highly Sensitive Refuge

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