How Happiness Can Heal Health Conditions
When you are ill, you are likely to feel pretty down-in-the dumps. You will usually feel even lower if your condition is chronic or possibly untreatable. And as time goes on,…
How to Ask for Help – and Get It
Help Me! No, Don't! Why is it that so many of us feel bad or embarrassed about asking for help? We don't like to see ourselves as needy or vulnerable. And…
How to Be Happy Being Different
Much of my life, I struggled with the dilemma of wanting to be unique, but also wanting to be like everyone else. I wanted to be my own person and…
What Is The Most Precious Thing In Life?
The most precious thing in life may not be that obvious. Over the years, I have learned what the most precious things in life are, the lessons mostly coming at…
Are Modern Mindfulness Meditators Missing a Trick?
Mindfulness seems to be in fashion at the moment. Mental health and wellbeing centres are doing it. Workplace wellness programs are doing it. Even the Canadian police force is doing…
How to Make a Fresh Start
Sometimes you might throw your hands up in the air and wish you could begin life all over again, whether it's because you've made a mistake, have suffered a lot in life, or because…
How to Stop Yourself Failing
Why am I Failing? Feeling stuck in a rut, trapped, like you just can't imagine making a success of your life – whether you're trying to do something specific or…
How To Make ‘Happy Mistakes’
As a child, I loved watching a certain kids' TV show about art. It was presented by a softly-spoken, good-natured old guy who would demonstrate how to use watercolours or pastels, or…
Already Successful?…How to Become EPIC!
You don't have to parade around in Gladiator armour waving a sword to take part in something epic. Nor do you have to snog Leonardo Di Caprio on a sinking ship…
Are you a Pochemuchka?
Unless you're a Russian-speaker, you probably won't know what I'm on about, but the very fact that you chose to read this blog may mean that you're a Pochemuchka anyhow.…