Do you know what it is like to feel tormented? To face Christmas with the anguish of financial difficulties and to be torn between increasing your debt or treating your…
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For the past few years, a lot of my work has centred around thinking less. Why it’s a good idea, what we can gain from it, and how to go…
Yesterday Sky News was reporting an interview of Miriam González Durántez, aka Mrs Nick Clegg (Nick Clegg is the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister). Ms González Durántez was saying that she…
I’ve spent all of my life thinking. It’s one of the things I do best. In fact, a few years ago, when it finally occurred to me that I deserved…
Two years ago, as part of a deliberate campaign to extend my comfort zones, I attended Tracy Shave’s Giggle Workshop. We learned about the health benefits of smiling, laughing and…
Sometimes the cards that life deals us are particularly challenging. Painful things can happen, and sometimes there is nothing we can do to make it any better. I was asked…
This is the one photo I took at the awards. It’s the dance floor during the party and, although I may be the UK’s worst photographer, I think it does…
Recently, I’ve been making a lot of noise about having been nominated and shortlisted for an award. I was up for the Author/Blogger category in the second annual Women Inspiring…
Just a quick post, different from my usual ones, but I am wanting to show up as myself and keep getting my message out there: we can deal with difficult…
Subscribers to my newsletter will know that Alfie had to have an x-ray last week. They also know, from reading his regular column, that he wasn’t worried about it and…
It’s the last day of the April UBC Challenge. This is the fourth challenge that, by the time this is posted, I will have successfully completed. For me, it has…
I’ve spent a lot of my life believing that logic is king. That we should gain as much knowledge as possible, think things through and arrive at rational conclusions. And,…