Happier, healthier touring
Hello and welcome! My name’s Becky Pell and I’m a touring sound engineer with 30 years experience in the live music business. I’m also a clinically trained yoga therapist and holistic wellbeing mentor. I’ve made big changes to my own health and wellbeing over the years and can help you to do the same.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is such an eggy subject, one that I’ve chewed on a lot over the years. How do you forgive yourself? How do you forgive others? How do you forgive the unforgivable? The thing about forgiveness that always stuck in my throat was that it seemed like saying that what happened was ok. And sometimes
Signal to Noise Ratio – raising the quality of your online life
In sound engineering there’s a concept called signal to noise ratio. It refers to the level of desired sound – the ‘signal’, such as an instrument – relative to the ‘noise floor’, which is the amount of hiss, or hum, or underlying undesirable sound. Part of the art of good audio mixing is managing equipment
When Life Keeps Wrong-Footing You
We get wrong-footed because we rely on the unreliable. What is truly, unerringly reliable? Not much. And you can choose to see that either as cause for despair, or a kind of liberation. All sorts of outrageous-seeming things have happened and will happen to me during my life. ‘Why me?’, I can rage. ‘Why not
Do Better, Karev
If you base your own behaviour on what other people are doing, you will never fulfil your potential. So there I was, getting annoyed with the person next door in my hotel banging and crashing about. I’d tried to be really considerate of the adjoining door in this room by using in-ears to watch Netflix,
Ideas of a Better Life
Would you have a better time if you stopped taking things so personally? Would you have a better time if you admitted that life will never be exactly how you want it, and so you might as well enjoy it anyway, in amongst the mess? Would you have a better time if you stopped labelling
Each To Their Own: On Choosing Not To Have Kids
I love tigers – but I have no desire to have one in my life. I’m fascinated by documentaries about extreme mountain climbing – but have zero urge to strap on some crampons. And although I have five godchildren and a stepdaugher, all of whom I adore, I have never ever wanted kids of my