Barry Winbolt - Psychologist, Coach, Therapist and Writer

Our mood is the foundation of our wellbeing. 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...

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 “Some...

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 judgements and assumptions (E.g. "She did that deliberately so she must really hate me";...

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 ...

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....

Adjustment to any change is a challenge at the best of times. In the current situation where sudden change has been forced upon us by circumstances, the word 'challenge' seems totally inadequate. 
In any other situation, there would be somewhere to ...

This is the final day, and task, in the 5-Day Resilience Challenge. If you've followed this far then you have already several of the tools used routinely by highly resilient people. Use these ideas regularly and you'll begin to radically shift your thinki...

Dwelling on problems holds you back and causes stress. Today's post in the 5-Day Resilience Challenge is about training yourself to see problems as opportunities.
Highly resilient people do this routinely They don't welcome negative events, but they see ...