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I’m enjoying Johann Hari’s excellent book about depression, Lost Connections. It’s a compelling read. He wisely points at seven ways in...

Have you ever met a goal, and once your initial pleasure passes, found that you feel flat and deflated? What an anti-climax. Sadly it’s...

It’s easy to get lost in the monotony of day to day life, to be focused on the many things that need doing each day. This has perhaps...

I’m focusing this week on some of the useful therapeutic tools I have learned over the years that I find helpful in my practice. Today,...

Today I wanted to talk about one of the most powerful therapeutic questions I use on a day to day basis. ‘And what would you like to...

So why kindness? In these difficult times it’s not hard to find stories of people helping each other, it’s happening in every village...

Sometimes we feel out of control, particularly this may be the case for you as our lockdown continues. What is happening around you can...

There is a saying that has resonated for me this week 'You move towards what you think about.' I had found myself feeling a little...

A young child recently asked me who the Buddha was, as he peered curiously at a picture. I found myself grappling with how to say...

It’s National Stress Awareness Day today. Stress is the result when the demands placed on you outstrip your inner resources and ability...

Perverse as it may sound, I enjoy working with clients who have experienced trauma. I don’t enjoy that people get traumatized or that...

I often blog on the subject of bodymind, and my perception that body and mind are not two different things. I see them as metaphorical,...

In latin, the word for fear is angustiae, and it means a narrowing. I learned this recently, reading Stephen Fry’s excellent Mythos, a...

The last few weeks have been very interesting personally, as I have lived through the disruption of selling a home and moving in with...

“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know so it goes flying anyway” Mary Kay Ash Belief is...

As the end of the summer holidays has come and go, and term time is again upon us, it seems that for many this summer was more than a bit...

Does your behaviour depend on your mood? If so, that’s pretty normal. It's easy for this to be the case, for example, when you feel low...

When we have a lot on, what usually happens is that the many and varied ways we have of putting a smile on our face, chilling out,...

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted relationships deeply. Our circumstances are all different, both in the generalities that impact us...

We only laugh when we are happy, right? It’s one approach, for sure. We can see playfulness, laughter and fun as a product of state of...