March 6, 2022
How do we deal with death when we realise, at the end of someone’s life, how little we really understood about them? My father-in-law died this week after a mercifully short illness. He was, in many ways, a difficult man but what he could not make out of an old discarded pallet was unlikely to […]
Read More
February 27, 2022
Do self-knowledge and self-compassion help when it comes to controlling emotions? I’m pretty good at dishing out suggestions but am I speaking from a place of self-knowledge, or is it just all theoretical training? I was asked this week to write a piece for businesses that are trying to support their staff through anxiety about […]
Read More
February 20, 2022
One of the things that anxiety is incredibly good at is preventing us from taking action without a great deal of unproductive thought. When we are anxious our brains go into overdrive, looking at the situation from this angle and that one desperately trying to establish a way of removing the burdensome feeling of dread. […]
Read More
February 13, 2022
It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and there will be celebration, disappointment, argument, joy, passive aggression, and goodness knows what else as couples wrestle with the need to meet their expectations of one another. The relationship that may be ignored in all of this is the one you have with the only person who will definitely never […]
Read More
February 6, 2022
It was management expert Ken Blanchard who originally said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions,” but this week I’ve been thinking a lot about feedback and wondering whether such a general observation is actually very helpful. For a start, “breakfasts of champions” is a very wide genre indeed. Champion boxer George Foreman used to start […]
Read More