May 19, 2020
Hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, the theme for MHA this week, 18th to 24th May 2020, is Kindness. Kindness, together with patience, compassion, tolerance and acceptance – so many wise values that we need to be tapping into, right now, to help us to […]
April 24, 2020
If you’re wondering what’s next for you, and your family, as we continue to face the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and worldwide shutdowns, you are not alone. We need to fortify our hope, activate our intuition, find our inner strength […]
March 17, 2020
Everything in the universe is cyclical – we have the Carbon and Nitrogen cycles keeping life going here on Earth, we see the seasons appearing every year, we experience the ups and downs of our economy, we take stock of our annual business […]
February 25, 2020
Every leap year we add an extra day to the Gregorian calendar in order to synchronise it with the seasons. It takes the earth approximately 365.25 days to once orbit the sun, so if we didn’t add on this extra day, to […]
January 21, 2020
As we embark on a new year, enter a new decade and see in the Chinese New Year on the 25th January, (not forgetting my mum’s birthday on the 24th, and having a wee dram on Burns Night!) there is a real sense of […]
December 27, 2019
Over-indulged this Christmas? Well, how about doing a detox diet that involves ditching the news, instead!?! Notice when you feel the urge to keep checking the news – reaching for the paper, or logging onto news websites – what […]
December 20, 2019
As the Christmas break fast approaches, it’s vital we recognise that not all of us will be playing Happy Families……. honestly, as much as we do our best, how many of us really play this properly, anyway? Despite all […]
December 13, 2019
After yet another successful conference for my colleagues and I at MIP (The Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy), how we go about retelling our stories so they no longer give us cause to feel pain, I feel is a must […]
December 6, 2019
With advent now underway, here are 24 beautiful ways to encourage your little ones to think about others at this very special time of year: Tell a Christmas joke and make someone laugh Make festive cards for your teachers Offer to set the […]
November 29, 2019
Life, it is sometimes said, begins at 40, but it often doesn’t feel like it! To many people, the realisation that youth is behind them and middle age has arrived, is a depressing one. We are used to dismissing […]