This is the ‘trust’ label stuck on the keyboard of my laptop. I have them all over the place including beside my bed and in my purse. Originally, the idea…
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What has creativity got to do with worry? If I have all these problems, how can anything possibly get better because I draw a picture, do some gardening or make…
How do you feel when you see this picture? Does it remind you of going on holiday, exploring foreign countries or long business trips? For a long time, the view…
I never seem to manage an entirely wordless post for Wordless Wednesday, but I am enjoying focusing more on pictures and less on words once a week. This photo was…
What do you know about smiling? It’s common knowledge that we find a smiling face more welcoming and approachable, and that there are all sorts of different smiles*, some of…
We all have a very powerful tool at our fingertips. This tool can help us turn our thinking from negative to positive, see everything from a more joyful perspective, and…
I have eight days of busy…busy…busy coming up so I spent some time planning what I want to blog about for the next little while. I wasn’t taking much notice…
One of my first suggestions for building a worry-resilient lifestyle is to have a healthy, supportive community around you. Of course it’s ideal to have real people close by that…
If you are a natural worrier, like me, you probably live in your head most of the time, and may even find it difficult to connect with the rest of…
So far this month I’ve talked a lot about thinking. How we think the things we do and some of the reasons we have those thoughts. Beliefs and assumptions that…
I used to have rather fixed ideas about education. As a naturally academic person myself, good at exams and gaining qualifications, I believed that educational success meant learning a lot…
I’ve written before about the differences between men and women when it comes to worry. My conclusions are based on completely non-scientific research, but everything I’ve observed since I wrote…