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This week is Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW). I’ve been thinking all week about what to write – after all, I specialise in working with people who are struggling with eating disorders, so I should have something profound and knowledgeable and insightful to say…right? I’ve been putting myself under quite a lot of pressure that no-one else […]

I’ve been talking a lot about kindness this week with my three girls.  Partly because its Random Acts of Kindness week (obviously), and also partly because it’s the end of the first half of the winter term at school and they are exhausted, which means they can be pretty grumpy and not-very-nice towards each other quite […]

Today’s thought for the day has a suitable kindness-based theme to it: It can be easy to dismiss people who – on the surface at least – appear to be doing ok. Something that I’ve learnt over and over again, both in my personal life and in my work as a Cognitive Hypnotherapist, is that you never, […]

I’ve been in London seeing clients at my Harley Street practice today.  I’d intended to buy a sandwich and a coffee at the station when I arrived, as there is always an elderly homeless man sat in the same spot along the Euston Road who I see every time I walk to my office – I […]

Some of you will have heard of the latest ‘craze’ that the nation seems to be obsessing about – necknominations.  For those not in the know, it’s kind of like a dare, a challenge.  If you get nominated, you have to drink a lethal concoction of alcoholic drinks – usually a potent mix of vodka, […]

Today marks the beginning of Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Week.  In my head I’d been planning to really focus on looking for opportunities to do random acts of kindness for the people that I encounter throughout this week, and write a blog post a day about the experience.  I was interested to find out whether seven days of consciously participating […]

A letter came home from school in each of my girls book bags today.  Apparently a new national curriculum is being implemented in all primary schools from September this year.  In the school that my girls attend it will only form one part of what they teach, and so the Headteacher has (rather wonderfully) taken the […]

I have at least three close friends who are in the middle of some pretty tough situations at the moment. This is for you (and anyone else who needs it right now):

This time ten years ago I was on the verge of taking a huge leap of faith. Quite literally. Tomorrow is the ten year anniversary of the bungy jump I did whilst I was in New Zealand.  My bungy-buddy and fellow photography enthusiast Peter (you can check out his enviable photographic talent here) reminded me of […]

I watched this video this morning and thought I’d share it with all of you – partly because it got me thinking about some things, and partly because I have a feeling some of you (you know who you are) might find it useful right now… I’ve had a couple of conversations with John – about this time […]