Back in 2012 I wrote this post about Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) which nicely forecasts my work with Justin Hancock on Enjoy Sex and...
This post is about a short essay by the existential psychiatrist, Victor Frankl, called The Case for Tragic Optimism. Frankl wrote this in 1984 as a postscript...
Over the summer of 2011 the Radio 4 show Thinking Allowed examined cultural shifts and changes in the home. Presenter Laurie Taylor took a number...
In Charles Dickens‘s classic festive story, A Christmas Carol (and in the Muppet version of same which is compulsory viewing in our house at this...
This long read covers what we know about mental health, and why I think that distinguishing between those who are, and are not, mentally ill,...
People who read my blogs and other writing will know that one of the things I’m heavily into is mindfulness. This is, broadly speaking, the practice...
The common idea of the conventional relationship is of a monogamous, long-term relationship between a man and a woman, based on them falling in love,...
This post that I wrote way back in 2011 is proving popular on my blog lately, so I’m sharing it again along with a page...
Following the news reports over the last few days I, like many people, have struggled over what, if any, response I can make that would...
Last week somebody sent me an email which really pleased me. They are writing a non-fiction book and asked for my advice about this. For...