Last week I gave a talk on self-help books to literature students at UEA and, thanks to the marvellous B. J. Epstein, I had the...
On May 22nd the magazine DIVA and the mental health charity PACE held an evening event called The H-word. The H-word in question is happiness, and...
Mindfulness is huge at the moment. Tens of thousands of people worldwide have completed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programme of Jon Kabat-Zinn. Counsellors and therapists train in...
I wrote this post with Steven Stanley back in 2012 Rosalind Gill has recently spoken out about the secrecies and silences which exist about the...
A 2012 post about whether it’s possible to engage with smartphones mindfully. Along with my very recent arrival in the world of social networking I...
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...
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...
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...
This week is depression awareness week (11-17 April). The most important thing I have to say in relation to depression is about self-care. Towards the...