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On The Importance Of Communicating

We all know that it’s good to talk. We hear it so often and actually, we know communication is vital. I talk about it in my work. In the context of marriages, very often one of the biggest problems couples cite when they hit a wall, is that they’ve stopped talking. People report of notContinue reading “On The Importance Of Communicating”

On Challenging My Negative Creative Self

“I don’t have a creative bone in my body” is a lie I have repeated to myself and others more times than I can count over the last 30+ years. It originates from when, aged 14, an art teacher at school said to me “the sooner you stop drawing [and painting] the better for everyone]”. Continue reading “On Challenging My Negative Creative Self”

On choosing to look on the bright side of lockdown

‪At the end of 14 days of self isolation, as we reach breaking point here at home and we all bite each other’s heads off for the smallest of annoyances let alone proper misdemeanours, I choose to remind myself of how blessed we are. Yes I’m an introvert, largely used to deciding how and whereContinue reading “On choosing to look on the bright side of lockdown”

On Post Natal Depression (PND)

6 years after our first child was born, our second one arrived by C-section. Our miracle IVF / ICSI baby was finally here. He was perfect and our family was finally complete. The tears, dreams, broken hearts, disappointments, frustrations, hopes and many many prayers that characterised those intervening years could at last be laid downContinue reading “On Post Natal Depression (PND)”

On Exercise and Eating Disorders

In the same way that “clean eating” has been used by some, increasingly, as a pretext for eating disorders, so exercise can be misused and abused. People ask me about the value of exercise, addiction to exercise, exercising whilst still in the throes of an ED and generally the huge scope there is for abuse.Continue reading “On Exercise and Eating Disorders”