3 Body Scan Mindfulness Practices to Restore Calm and Wellbeing
This article talks about three body scan methods from my latest book Body Talk to support greater calm, health, power and well-being.
Our first Grid retreat is a success
News from our first Grid retreat where we work on helping people construct healthy and deeply fulfilling lives that encourage their best expression.
How to move forward towards your goals when you feel blocked
Do you find it hard to complete things? It may be a DIY project you started or another creative endeavor that you were super excited about. It can even be something that needs doing like your business accounts or a project with an immovable deadline. We have all been there! Something needs to be finished…
Switchboard Operator: a practical exercise to repair self-defeating thoughts
Tackling self-defeating thoughts with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy The Switchboard Operator is a useful visualisation technique to systematically challenge self-defeating thoughts. This simple exercise can change your thought patterns and is based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). Watch this short helpful video about CBT from one of my favourite mental health charity in the UK, Mind.…
Book Corner – Feb 2019 Recommendation
February Highly Recommended Read This month’s recommended book is Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and Hope to Find Hope by Johann Hari. You can watch Johann in conversation with Decca Aitkenhead, interviewer for the Guardian from a Thursday lecture at the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) below. This is a beautiful, deeply…
How to improve your future outcomes: pay close attention to how you approach regret
Regrets. We are always told to live without them. Yet when every decision in life is bound to a specific context and time while our evaluations of them often enjoy far more freedom, having no regrets seems a tall order. You may be living the life you have always dreamed of and yet you may…
How I Befriended my Inner Critic and You Can Too
What is an Inner Critic? We all have an inner critic. Critics tend to: Get in the way of our aspirations and potential success. Evaluate us from the sidelines without doing any actual work! Judge us and our feelings, behaviours, and actions. Sometimes even judge our entire self as in, “You’re just all bad, worthless,…
Integrative stress management for mind, heart, body and spirit
The mind comes in a body and every body has a mind Integrative stress management starts from the fact that the mind is located within and connected to the physical body. Just as the mind has a body to experience life with, the body has a mind or felt sense to collect and register experiences.…
Facing and dealing with anxiety
I’ve been asked my by colleague and friend Kenneth Clifford to contribute to his blog and the Portsmouth counselling practice with a series of blogs on either neuroscience or anxiety. You can see I chose something far more practical. 4-5 people in my annual leadership programme of 40 candidates faces and struggles with anxiety in…
Getting unstuck and taking control of your life and career with CHOICE
It’s been a busy month writing invited blogs which is such a joy. This blog written for Clinfield – an organisation that is championing and actively supporting career development for research practitioners and especially nurses in UK – came as a result of putting together an exciting new programme that I will be offering around…