“I think the mark of a proper adult is someone who is really able to say with confidence I don’t know.” Andrew Scott, the award-winning theatre, television and film actor, was a recent guest on Elizabeth Day’s podcast How To Fail.During the interview which focuses primarily...
As we start back for the full first week of 2020, it’s a return to routine and our comfort zone of daily habits to boost us during our working day. Whether it is buying a latte on the way to the office, or justifying the...
Every day we seem to have a new political headline around the ominous date of Brexit. The number of Cabinet Ministers and MPs who have resigned, changed party, or their long-held values is mind boggling. But it is also worrying because of the impact on...
Did you pack your Bucket List book for this holiday, or are you planning to finish reading War and Peace or Hard Times in the autumn? You could join the millions of new subscribers who are discovering the joy of the experience of the Long Listen. The benefits of...
"Life is the sum of all your choices." - Albert Camus When you are on a social media site or app, do you click to the suggested images and accounts to follow? Do you scroll through endless similar images, worded tweets, repeated regrams, retweets, and reblogs and wonder...
The Placebo is a vital part of drug trials, to prove whether the medication is viable and has a measurable effect on patients. If the results are virtually the same, the active drug is not working – the patients are feeling the benefits but they...
“This bad inner Chatter. We all know it has the power to overthrow gut instinct, shout us down when we are faced with fear and talk us out of new adventures – yet few of us have a grip on it.” - Fearne Cotton, Quiet: Silencing the...
The second Monday in January has been tagged "The most depressing day of the year" by the media. The cold weather and long nights, struggling to stick to New Year's goals especially Dry January or the diet and exercise plan, the post festive slump, and...
Last December, aged 45, I performed in pantomime for the first time - I danced and sang in a variety of costumes as a villager, Pearly Queen, sailor, and servant, and relished living the dream in twenty sell out shows, This year, one of my...
The term Self Care or Self Compassion has become a trend on social media and in self help media. What does the term Self-Compassion mean, and how does it benefit us professionally? In her excellent introduction to Self-Compassion, Dr Kristin Neff explains that having compassion is essentially being...