In the 60s the Beatles landed a great hit with their song: All you need is love! Their message was simple. You can do anything and be who you are. It’s easy. All you need is love. Many people of course think this is just hippy nonsense. The sixties were full of that! So, let’s…
One year on – how are you coping with the pandemic? A year ago a pandemic hit the global community. The world changed. You and I and everybody else had to drastically change the way we interact and behave. Has it been a tough year for you? For many people the enhanced isolation and constant…
Are you sometimes wondering why some people seem to be a lot cheerier than you are, or a lot more resilient? There are of course a lot of aspects to this and some of them are outside your circle of influence. Let’s look at them first. When you are going through a major bereavement, serious…
Have you noticed this phenomenon? It usually happens at this time of the year, because a lot of us want to start the new year reinventing ourselves. New year, new me. You are all fired up about something that is important to you. You go and do a course on it. You make great headway during…
I think that at the beginning of a New Year it is always a good idea to go back to the basics. Many of us decide to have a New Year’s resolution. You might at the moment be doing something like ‘Sober January’. Going back to basics for me and in terms of wellbeing means…
This year has been an incredible year for all of us. Incredibly difficult, incredibly anxiety provoking, and incredibly disruptive and disturbing. It’s easy to look at 2020 and call it an incredibly bad year due to the very real consequences of COVID for all of us loss of freedom of movement, income and so much…
How to stay positive! I don’t know if you agree with me, but I find November is one of the hardest month in the year to stay cheery when you live in Scotland. The days are extremely short and the predominant weather is rain. Add the newly announced lockdown and daily concerns we all have…
We have been in lock down for a while now and your new lifestyle might start to feel a bit more normal. You keep your two metre distance from others. You stay at home and you try to get on with your life. But you might still feel far from normal. The whole situation is…
