Continuing on the topic of “Stress: are we coping?”, Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, I’m delighted to introduce Laurel Alexander and to include her article, Key Characteristics of Resilience. Laurel was my coaching tutor back in 2011. As I gradually lifted one foot off London and placed it tentatively onto the south coast, Laurel was kind, welcoming […]
Over the coming weeks some marvellous people have kindly offered to contribute their experience and expertise on the topic of “Stress: Are We Coping?”. Stress is the focus of Mental Health Awareness Week 2018. My aim in bringing together these kind contributions is to highlight experts from different spheres so that as many readers as possible will […]
Running between 14-20th May 2018 the focus of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is Stress. Over the course of the week, I’ll be posting articles from people I respect and admire. The aim is to highlight experts from different spheres (sports, clinical, complementary, etc) so that as many readers as possible will be […]
Show me a new year list and some mention of health can be found near the top. The topic is vast and deeply personal and my aim here is not to focus on one particular aspect. The basics of activity levels and what we eat is often reflective of other dimensions of ourselves. Taking care […]
I came across this short Radio 4 piece and it struck a chord. In an age of populism, greater polarity of views, and the divisive tweeting of presidents I feel it worth sharing. Is the culture of character limitation or the use of binary emoticons more akin to a Roman judgement of who lives or […]
“O you virtuous owle, wise Minerva’s only fowle” ANNUAL REFLECTION AND REVIEW | GOING FROM 2017 INTO 2018 Every year Janus permits us a golden period when we can look forward and back in healthy measure, With new year’s eve and new year’s day falling on Sunday and Monday this year, I thought I’d set Janus to […]
I’ve been to more talks focused on memory, mind and the brain recently at The Royal Institution. With increasing focus on mental health people want scientific answers to understanding and dealing with dementia, mid-life crises, anxiety, depression, trauma, how we learn, what happens when we sleep, why do we dream, how does a placebo really […]
September 2017 | Autumn Newsletter Autumn has arrived and nothing crystalises our own changes more than when we step outside and register what’s going on around us. As it’s September, I’m going to grab the autumn harvest metaphor, and ask the following questions of you: what am I proud of achieving this year? What is […]
Brighton Science Festival | 7th September 2017 | Are You Having Fun Yet? I went along thinking it would be good to hear what someone had to say about fun and all credit to Ben Fincham who was highly engaging, charasmatic and fun! ****** Is fun a bi product […]
Brighton Science Festival | 5th Sept 2017 | Sugar Is The New Fat These are my notes from a talk at the Brighton Science Festival a couple of weeks ago. A healthy diet is part of a healthy lifestyle and contributes significantly to our overall wellbeing. We all know we […]