Flick Back/ Flick Forward is a tool that enables you to use the positive emotion associated with some past achievement to prepare deliberately for a successful future result…

This week’s blog, is a variation on the ‘Understanding Your Fear’ writing dialogue, from couple of weeks ago. If you found that writing exercise useful, try out this one…

Compiling your own ‘positive achievement’ list is a way of respecting yourself.

Recognising and acknowledging small achievements in your life can allow you to appreciate just how far you’ve come and how well you’ve done…

This writing exercise is concerned with confronting your fear, doubt or procrastination. Strong emotions that have the capacity to immobilise and confuse us…

This is very easy to say and much harder to put into practice. ‘Letting go’ is  not the same as giving up. Giving up has a sense of failure about it, whereas ‘Letting go’ comes from a nurturing place of self-care…

I thought I’d change tack this week and give you a picture of what it’s like living with unpredictable mood swings. These are extracts from my book - ‘Wearing Red - One Woman’s Journey to Sanity.’

When something happens to upset or discourage me, I feel as if I’m blown off course and the infamous ‘Why Me?’ kicks into my mind chatter. It’s at times like these that I have to work on shifting my attitude…

This day is precious. So why do we waste so many hours worrying about what has happened or what might happen in the future, rather than focusing on what is actually happening in this day?

A very good question that often requires my attention…

Change is the only constant in our lives, yet we find unwelcome shifts in our circumstances uncomfortable and unsettling. We want to hold onto the familiar - the way things were…

Accepting change in our lives is very difficult and there is no easy answer. As this is such an important area, I’ve dedicated two weeks of my blog to explore how we can best handle what life throws at us. This is Part One…

This week’s blog is about the danger of complacency and the importance of daily practice of your well-being tool kit, which you can compile from my weekly blogs. This is number 19 so you could have 19 tools at your disposal already…

A harsh inner critic tends to just harp on. Rant after rant of distorted obsessive thinking that serves no useful purpose. These thoughts become like toxic chemicals dripping into your body…

I find it so easy to start something with a flourish and say to myself I’m going to do a reading from a daily reflections book and a meditation every morning because they make me feel so much better in myself…

Accepting life on life’s terms, rather than how you would have things be, is one of the most difficult practices to develop. Yet this simple word ‘acceptance’ holds a key to emotional and mental wellbeing…

This week’s mental health well-being blog is focusing on the art of choosing what works in any situation rather than concentrating on what hurts.

This is my interpretation of practising what is known as ‘Appreciative Inquiry.’ If we are able to focus on our strengths and successes…

In order to stay balanced we need to find a middle way. When starting a new project, we often start with exaggerated eagerness, imagining that this is the answer to our well-being. We intend to commit to this new venture, whatever it may be…

As Mental Health Awareness Week was celebrated across the nation recently, in my blog this week, I’ve decided to focus on my own mental well-being and talk about how I’ve managed over the years, to live with my mood swings…

As my childhood was very difficult, sometimes my past creeps into my present…

I would like the words ‘What if’ to be banned from the English language.  We can terrify ourselves with vivid imaginations of what might happen, usually involving doom and …

As a child I had to attend the local Methodist Sunday school. Twice a day. Before leaving for church, my mother insisted I had to change…