Mental health, emotional wellbeing & personal development
Live in the moment – the power is now. Anticipation is always worse than the actual event. Thinking makes it so. What we fear rarely comes true or is as bad as we anticipated. Learn to be less fearful and do things anyway. Avoidance creates…
Do you ever wonder if you overcomplicate your life? I know I do. I catastrophise and imagine what others are thinking and worry about worst case scenarios…it all adds up to a chaotic mind. A chaotic mind that forgets about the little things and leads…
For some reason, I have had many female clients (and I include myself in this) who have had a hard time deciding who to start a relationship with. Should they choose the safe reliable guy or go for the bad boy who is great in…
Sometimes we bumble along and let life pass us by without doing anything that is really important to us. We become complacent and assume we will have many more days, weeks, years to fulfil our inner wishes and desires. Now imagine how you would change…
It doesn’t take a lot to brighten someone else’s day. We can all use a compliment or words of encouragement at times. Every day, it’s easy to hear people judge each other and it seems to me that we tend to judge ourselves very differently…
The older I get the more I realise how little I know. There is always so much to learn and the world is forever changing. Information is constantly updating. It seems to me that most of us are bumbling along doing the best we can…
How you can make the world a better place How you can make the world a better place is simpler than you think. We can all feel like cogs in a large machine – relatively unimportant and powerless. We all matter though and we…
A Championship Is Given To Those Who Gift The Most, Not Those With The Most Gifts I recently listened to a podcast by Tony Robbins in which he takes the listeners back to when he was 29 years old. During this time, Tony was on…
Compassion and empathy Compassion and empathy exists but we can always do with more. Compassion and empathy is they key to tolerance and understanding. I get so annoyed when I hear people making judgemental comments such as, “Look at that fat person, why don’t…
There’s no need to be mean There seems to be a general consensus on the idea that being mean gets you ahead in life. There is a famous quote, “Nice guys finish last”. I don’t believe this though. Being assertive is the best way…
Good advice for a happy new year I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time looking for ‘mental fixes’ and sure-fire actions to make life happier, smoother and more peaceful. However, no matter how hard I try I have not yet succeeded…
Kind people in the world Sometimes we get so bogged down by all the trouble and strife that surrounds us that it makes us cynical and suspicious of others. I feel it is important though to never give up on the belief that there…