World Mental Health Day will be on October 10, 2020. The goal is to help raise mental health awareness and each of us can make a contribution to ensure that people dealing with mental health [...]
As the alarm rings and I open my eyes, I take a deep breath and a sense of anticipation (or if I am honest, is it dread?) emerges. The laziness and calm of the Easter holidays are over and it is [...]
It’s funny how some quotes you read really resonate, and here is one of them. I’ll let you into a little secret, I’m not a massive fan of the month of December and not overly excited about the [...]
That night, you know that night.. the one where sleep seems to elude you, where the bed you sleep in every night is now so uncomfortable and unwelcoming. The night when your partner [...]
I consider myself to be really quite self-aware and on the whole to be a fairly balanced individual ( others might challenge that). Over the last couple of months though I have noticed how the [...]
What do you fear? We all have some fears don’t we? Things that make us go weak at the knees, other things that stop us in our tracks. We might say to ourselves that the fears that stop us in our [...]
It’s pretty rare to have that moment of utter silence, even when you actively search for it. Do you ever find yourself in that position (one that seems very familiar to me right now) when you are [...]
It’s 6pm and I’m relieved to be sitting in the lounge at Glasgow airport as it’s absolutely pouring with rain. I had walked from my hotel into the city centre, but without [...]
In the words of the Boomtown Rats, I don’t like Mondays. I would actually go so far as to say I REALLY don’t like them, but why? After a lovely weekend with the right balance of relaxation and [...]
Inhale and breath! As the coach pulled away I took an inhale of breath, smiled and waved for the final time and made a very hasty retreat to my car without acknowledging anyone around me. [...]