Often people will say I cannot meditate - I try and I cannot do it...as if there is a bespoke madness unique to them making it impossible....

"Recover your mind and your will, which are busying themselves elsewhere, you are drowning away and scattering yourselves. Concentrate...

Many people seem to believe there is a right way and wrong way to grieve. Or at least that they are doing it wrong in some sense. This...

It can often be the case that people using counselling or therapy are often worried about admitting things have not been too good since...

This runs the risk of seeming obvious - but sometimes the most seemingly obvious can be the most useful. Sometimes we spend a lot of our...

How many did you make? How many already by January 7th have you broken or given up on? And that's before perhaps you go back to work...

The start of a New Year and everyone is no doubt making resolutions and thinking about resolving not to make resolutions...I do think...

A lot of what I talk about in therapy tends to be related to one or more of these 8 ideas. I will say no more of them - they are speak...

Now I do love dogs. I am down the beach every morning with mine and this blog is nothing against dogs. Except... Often we let our...

I told the story of The Golden Buddha a couple of weeks ago and as Christmas approaches and all those old movies start to appear on TV...

A J P Taylor was an historian and journalist of the last century. He wrote for the Express and was quite fiery in his views. He died in...

A story goes that a village had a statue of Buddha made of solid gold. When they were attacked they had no time to hide it and so, in...

I was listening to a podcast that talked about how easy it is for us to become angry about the world - often our place in it, that...

I am fortunate to live so close to a beautiful beach that I can walk each morning. Its been still and calm most of the week and hear are...

Some fruity language in this quote from Graeme Armstrong's book, The Young Team, his fictionalised account of growing up in gang culture...

This, according to Marilynne Robinson, is the feeling we have when we think I better get all these things done before I can do the stuff...

The attainment of happiness feels like the ultimate aim of our lives. Something we all are pursuing as the primary goal of life and have...

"If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that...

This is a lovely poem and I don't know that I need to say too much about it. I think we can all learn a little from it and see ourselves...

This week I am going to promote a podcast I listened to earlier in the week! The link is at the end of these paragraphs. Michael Harding...