Learning and practicing mindfulness can be tricky because it requires concentration! Yet, once you have mastered it, then I believe that this well-being tool is a prelude to meditation. Those of you who use meditation, as part of your daily routine, know of the plethora of health benefits; but how do we clear our cluttered [...]

Forget your mind and you’ll be free... This great advice and lyrics, by David Bowie, feels especially poignant in our new era of much change and uncertainty.   Whether you endure fragile mental health, or not, most of us consider our internal narrative when making decisions. Actually, the deep-seated voice we frequently hear, is that [...]

January is notorious for being a tough month, and it’s when our anxiety peaks, as we wait for our monthly wages, and it’s usually when the utility bill lands on our door-mat. We get over-whelmed and cross with ourselves, for not adhering to all the New Year resolutions we’ve promised to make. But we’re still [...]

All of us from time to time feel sorry for ourselves, and it doesn’t make us bad people. I, for instance, have felt sorry for myself due to my disability becoming more challenging, missing my loved ones, and worrying about work security. We could compare this sort of anxiety to having a headache, whereby a [...]

Let’s hope that 2022, is a better year for us all! We’ve endured human losses, job losses, and a host of general uncertainties’; all of which have attributed to the reptilian part of our brain (where we process anxiety and fear) to be: “kept on”, and in high alert. But, we’re controlling the pandemic now, [...]