I haven’t been the best lately, but I think I’ve turned the corner and am beginning to recover. A friend gave me an extract of Caroline Jones’s book An Authentic Life – Finding Meaning and Spirituality in Everyday Life, and it’s inspired me to write down the things that make me happy, that are lifegiving. For me, music has always been lifegiving. Whether it’s listening, playing, singing or writing, it’s something that resonates with me, that is in me, that needs to be expressed.

When it comes to listening to inspirational, uplifting music, Sigur Ros is the band to listen to. Their albums are amazing enough, but live, they are astonishing. Listening to this lifts me out of my gloom, beyond my everyday struggles, and into something ethereal.