May 15, 2022
It’s all very well having lots of strategies that other people can use to become more assertive but there are times when the phrase “physician, heal thyself” rings loudly in my ears. In the space of a few days at the beginning of the month, I was asked to take on several projects that require […]
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May 8, 2022
It’s Mental Health Awareness week and this year the theme is “loneliness” Over dinner, my family is asking me if I am intending to write something on the subject this week. I tell them that I can never think of anything to write other than pointing out that developing a feeling of love for oneself […]
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May 1, 2022
I did an interview with the money management app company Cleo. They wanted to talk to me about how money impacts our mental health and what we can do about the ways in which it often seems to undermine us emotionally. The link to the interview comes through while I am looking at ceramic barbecues […]
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April 24, 2022
Shortcuts often seem alluring in their promise to get us somewhere we want to be faster than we thought possible, but most of the time they don’t really work, and anyway, sometimes we use them to get to a place that we don’t really want to be. I’m in the garden painting the third coat […]
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April 23, 2022
Everywhere you look there seems to be advice to switch off your devices in an effort to find greater peace and balance in our lives, but what if the issue is not so much with the digital world itself but just the way we tend to use it? I’m not in my house and I […]
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