Reflective Sunday

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard Is Sunday still special for you? Is it still different to the other days of the week? To us in the west, it is the day of rest; reflection; religion and recharge. In some Muslim countries and Israel, Sunday is […]

How to deal with Toxic Stress

“Unhappy childhoods will kill you as an adult.” – Anon Here is the article I promised on how to deal with Toxic Stress. The previous article described what Toxic Stress was and how you identify it. Just as a reminder. The starting point was that there was a series of research programmes that identified […]

Toxic stress and its impact on you

“Unhappy childhoods will kill you as an adult.” – Anon We all know that how we are treated as children has a profound effect on us as adults. If you are surrounded by people that smoke; you are more likely to smoke. Likewise with drink and drugs. We also know that unhappy experiences in […]

How your brain is affected by stress

“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.” ― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart I like to understand the theory and the science behind how we think, act and how our brains work. […]

Standing in line and Mindfulness

“He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone’s got a place in the queue, you can’t get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.” ― Scott Lynch, […]

Kindness, Resilience and Mindfulness

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has […]

What’s been missing in my Mindfulness practice?

“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut”. – Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! As I have written before, I practice Mindfulness on an almost daily basis. I have been practicing and experiencing the benefits for the past eighteen months. I have found the ability to be fully […]

The beauty of Silence

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. I love when the extended family gets together. The vibe and the feeling of being together is wonderful. As a family of daughters – I have two and my brother has three […]

The power of 5

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.” ― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise: A Play I was asked recently to try to help some graduates in my organisation prepare for a training course. The course was entitled “Personal Impact” and it concerned your own personal […]

Choosing a Habit

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” ― Robert Frost Part of the January ritual that society seems to have developed is this concept of New Year’s resolutions and the concept that we should develop new habits. i wondered where it […]