What’s their problem?!
May 9, 2018
What’s their problem?! Familiar words often spoken about the family member who snaps for no reason, the work colleague who is always ready with a passive aggressive dig or the friend who is always in a bad mood. What’s...
Effective Communication
April 29, 2018
Is it time to get happy? You’re in the right place! Join us for some YOU time. A Sunday morning workshop offering guidance, training, yoga and meditation in order to help improve your well-being. Express yourself clearly to those...
Time for a change?
April 4, 2018
If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got. It’s an oldy but a goody. If something isn’t going right or if you’re not getting the results you want but you don’t...
Practice What You Preach
March 21, 2018
I have the “preach” part down. I talk a lot about what I’ve learned and how I’ve overcome things. Every day lately seems to be a test. A test of patience, of resilience and of will. It’s not that...
Lighthouses
February 28, 2018
When I went to Eden Community Camp last May, the country manager, Peter Lefort, did a rousing talk about lighthouses, part of which you can read here. Peter made reference to a conversation he had with a lady at...
Mental Health: It’s Time to Talk
January 31, 2018
We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health. Mental health is a scale and we all slide up and down that scale throughout our lives. A study by the NHS Information Centre for...
Conversation, a dying art
January 24, 2018
How often do you sit and have a one-to-one conversation with someone? (Without you both having one eye on your phone). Think back. Did you manage it today? This week? This month? It’s hard to know isn’t it. We...
Relationships that are as unique as us
January 17, 2018
Ok, so it’s weeks like this when I realise how much work I still have left to do on myself and my relationships with others. I thought I was pretty sorted when it comes to friendships. Mainly because I...
What are you worth?
December 12, 2017
What are you really worth? Pause for a second and consider that question. Are you worth people’s time? Their attention? Their love? Their respect? Of course we’d all say yes but do we believe it and do we demonstrate...
anxiety,
blogging,
charity,
communication,
community,
connections,
experiences,
lonliness,
relationships,
survival,
volunteer,
volunteering
Humans
October 13, 2017
I’ve always been happy in my own company. As a kid, my next door neighbour would knock for me to come out and play and I’d often say no because I was happy enough dicking about on my own....