Motivating and Inspiring
Following your dreams
Making change happen. [READ MORE]
purpose
Working it out
Holiday blues – what you can learn from it
Post holiday blues or vacation blues – it may have happened to you before. And if you have a break coming up, then you may worry that it may happen again. Holiday blues can turn even the best break into [READ MORE]
Motivating and Inspiring
The key to meaningful change and personal growth
“One key to meaningful change” I hear you ask? Many self-help, wellbeing and psychology articles talk about multiple steps towards personal growth. But in my experience there is only one. And it is mostly ignored and undervalued. Let me [READ MORE]
Motivating and Inspiring
Making peace with yourself
Making peace with another or in the world – we all talk about it. But are you at war or at peace with yourself? At the end of 2016 I asked my twitter and blog followers to select one [READ MORE]
Motivating and Inspiring
Litter picking someone else’s rubbish?
Litter picking someone else’s rubbish – is it silly, responsible or tidying a way a problem? I am not top of the tidy homes list, but I find litter unsettling. It causes disharmony. For me litter picking is an [READ MORE]
Motivating and Inspiring
Find strength in our shared humanity: the example of David Bowie, you and I
You and I, we are part of a shared humanity. And there is so much we can give to each other, from near or afar, like a hope, purpose, a sense of self – even in the face of [READ MORE]
Working it out
Is generosity a good or a bad idea?
Do you show more generosity to others than to yourself? Our relationship with generosity can be complex and say a lot about us. We might be generous with our time, money, skills, love. Perhaps we give more than we ever get. Rarely does [READ MORE]
Coping with loss
Why I cannot yet listen to David Bowie’s Black Star album
There is music that defines us and tells the story of our life. There is music that talks of our past and present. And there is music that talks of what we fear may be happening right now and [READ MORE]
Coping with cancer
Keeping our identity despite cancer – the example of David Bowie
Holding on to our identity, a sense of who we are and what we stand for is not always easy. Especially not during a health crisis, cancer or other chronic or terminal illnesses, which can drain use of meaning. [READ MORE]
Coping with loss
Your death touches my mortality
The death of people we do not know personally can still affect us in many ways. It can touch our mortality. The death of the BBC’s Komla Dumor, aged 41, in January 2014 affected me in many ways. And [READ MORE]