Facing your fears (and other cliches)

This week, as you may know if you follow me on Twitter, I finally booked my flights to India. This trip has been five years in the making. Ever since I did my yoga teacher training with my inspirational teacher Conrad Paul, in London, I have wanted to see the...

Being limited by my own world view

It occurred to me this morning that, over the past few months, I’ve managed to put myself back in to a little bit of a box. What I mean by this is that I started wondering if I was being limited by my own world view. As regular readers will know, I recently...

Finding Happiness – take it by degrees

It occurred to me the other day, that people, myself included, spend way to much time trying to figure out what will make them happy and what they should do. Reality check – none of us should feel that we ‘should’ do anything. Who told you that you...

Developing a Diet to Deal with Panic Disorder

This is a guest post from Ryan over at Calm Clinic. He approached me a while back about writing practical advice for anyone suffering panic attacks and I think the below may prove really helpful to any of your guys who suffer from them (I used to as well – not...

The Jubilee and being yourself

Are you at the Jubilee? I live about 20m from the Thames in London but I’m actually spending this rainy afternoon in our flat, writing, playing, and watching it all unfold on the BBC. Why am I asking you about the Jubilee? Because people asked me. And, I have to...