• Precious Friendships

    This blog is about friendships and what they do for us...

  • Making mistakes

    Making mistakes and the impact that can often have if you’re in the public eye...

  • Stop Thinking, Start Living: Book review

    My associate Georgina, has written a critique of the book covering the main points and what she recommends we put in to practice...

  • Do you think too much?

    The essence of the book is that Richard believes those of us prone to thinking a lot may be at risk of encouraging mild to moderate depression...

  • Handling Negative Emotions is a Life Skill

    Feelings of sadness, frustration, anger, and disappointment all serve a purpose, but often their purpose is lost...

  • Conquering the Workday: Strategies to Minimize Workplace Stress

    Whether you have your dream job or just a job to get by, you most likely face stress at work at times...

  • Self-worth and why it’s still worth it!

    Self-worth is an attitude towards yourself; a belief that you place a value on what you do, and who you are. It matters because without it, or if it’s low...

  • The Big C – the Silent Killer

    Cancer is our biggest killer and worse, it is killing us from within...

  • Why is My Child so Stressed?    

    What do children have to be stressed about? Being a child is the easiest time of your life...

  • How to Reduce Christmas Stress!

    A study found that 5% of the UK are very stressed and 15% are fairly stressed about Christmas preparations...

  • The Rise of Rudeness!

    For some months now, I have noticed that people seem to be much more aggressive when they are driving...

  • Primary to Secondary School – how we can make it a smooth and stress-free transition for our children.

    Children all over the world will be moving on from primary education into secondary. Although for some the idea is exciting and welcomed, for others, it is quite terrifying...

  • Learning from Failure

    People always say, “the best way to learn is through the mistakes that you make.”  But what if we don’t learn from our mistakes, our misdemeanours, our failures? 

  • Men have Eating Disorders Too!

    Men are now reported by the NHS to represent 25% of cases of eating disorders...

  • Can We Work if We’re Stressed?

    People assume that if you’re stressed while you’re at work, you’re stressed with the workload itself. That’s not always the case...

  • Men and Mental Health; are men more emotional than women?

    Many boys encounter what Dr William Pollack termed in his book, ‘The Boy Code’, a set of expectations on how boys and men should think, feel and act: “be tough, don’t cry, go it alone...

  • Primary School Stress

    Experts warn that intense pressure during school years can affect performance & backfire, leading to signs of social, emotional and physical stress...

  • What’s Eating You?

    At some point in all of our lives we turn to a solution we hope will make us feel better; to cope with or to distract us temporarily from our problems...

  • Teenage Stress and how to help

    At this stage in our lives, a massive pressure we face is the challenge of A Levels; they are a considerable jump up from GCSE...

  • Self image: how to be ok with what you see in the mirror!

    What do I mean by self-image? In general, self-image encompasses what you think about your appearance, your abilities...

  • Family: how to work out when to forgive and when to let something go

    Some of us are lucky enough to have supportive, loving families that help us, either to come home to, or to feel we’ve come from...