Acceptance is a tingly warm sensation in your gut. It comes with a huge sigh of relief, and can help to ease bodily pains and headaches. Acceptance is a new grip on your mental health, with noticeably improved clarity of thinking. But it is hard to achieve, especially where matters of the heart are concerned: [...]

Last week I spoke about the value of recalling compliments to help bolster your self-belief. Because when depression strikes, so many of our opinions about ourselves start sailing down the stream - we endure a distorted and unhelpful self-image. We need to pan for our own gold to help energise us, re-align our cluttered minds, [...]

A truly annoying and hindering symptom of depression is a depleted sense of self-belief. It gets confiscated with little or no notice, and its timing is awful. There you were, thinking “I’ve got this”; or you’d thought of a new way to tackle a problem with joyous clarity and you'd gone to bed feeling assured… [...]

I join a long queue of people who are facing uncertainty in such unprecedented times. I’m in the process of trying to find new clients and managing many other areas of my life - none of which are conducive to being able to relax! So how do I relax? Well, I take the lead from [...]