Mood Control It’s Free and It Works!

Posted July 15, 2020

Our mood is the foundation of our well-being. We take it with us wherever we go, and we behave as though we have no control over it. But our mood is not all-powerful. It can be reined in and regulated. In short, it can be managed, and the best bit is, it’s all free! Forget gadgets and gizm...

Confidence: Do You Know Your Strengths?

Posted June 23, 2020

How often have you met someone who is going to do something when they feel ‘confident’ to do it? The world is full of non-authors, or non-artists, and millions of other potentially creative souls who are telling themselves some version of “Someday, when the feeling moves me, I’ll… (fill in th...

Moods: If You can Feel It You can Change It

Posted May 11, 2020

When it comes to managing our moods we often think that we have little control over them. Moods are often the result of ‘distorted thinking” These are the false judgments and assumptions (E.g. “She did that deliberately so she must really hate me”; “He never picks up th...

Why I’m Fed Up, and How to Find Inspiration in the Daily Details

Posted April 18, 2020

I’m fed up! Lockdown can be tough, that’s true. But do we need to make it worse by banging on about how hard it is? In the middle of a crisis, predicting ever more doom and gloom is not what we need! People have many fine qualities. One of our finest is our ability in a crisis to rise to...

Let It Go, or, Paralysis by Analysis

Posted April 18, 2020

For the most part, it isn’t in our nature to like uncertainty. We tend to like things to be tidy and known. We are also, for the most part, good at problem-solving.  Yet we can easily become trapped in a mire of indecision about the smallest things. A tendency to over-think things can escalate...