Losing the Game – Winning Back Unlived Life

Losing the Game – Winning Back Unlived Life

We are all searching. Seeking to find something more that we believe will satisfy and complete. What we overlook in our drive to win is the extent of our compulsion and instinct. The drive forward becomes an unquestioned first base and so we ‘strike and run’, time and...
Remembering How to Play When You’re a Grown-Up

Remembering How to Play When You’re a Grown-Up

As the tragic news of the loss of life from terrorist attacks in the UK fills our TV screens, I continue to worry how this is affecting our children, both now and for their future lives. In my last blog, I described how when working with high school teens on ‘positive...
Is Less Able, More Able?

Is Less Able, More Able?

I have to thank Dan Collinson a fellow positive psychology practitioner for helping cultivate and inspire this seed thought – ‘is less able, more able’. The image I chose for this piece is one I captured whilst in China. To me, this speaks of individuality and...
Fake News

Fake News

I cannot get the picture of President Trump pointing his finger at members of the press and stating ‘You are fake news’ out of my mind. And the accompanying news report, stating that statistics show that people are unable to differentiate between fake and real news....
Breathing – How To Do It Properly

Breathing – How To Do It Properly

Do you know how to breathe? In the Kate Bush song Breathing, she tells us that she is breathing! ‘Out, in, out, in, out!’  It sounds so simple and indeed it is.   We all do it for our entire lives, but are we doing it properly?  Do you know how to breathe? Awareness...