Journal

I want to talk about a history of anxiety- mine! My first memory of anxiety was being asked to take a leading roll in the infant school nativity play, playing [...]

“You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn’t another tactic, another book, another five step plan. Maybe you don’t need to be fixed, maybe what’s [...]

It takes a long time before there is a shift our own and society's  thinking about strong new evidence about something that matters to us or challenges our previous held [...]

Whilst watching a brilliant talk by neuroscientist Beau Lotto , which I highly recommend,  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUgGg9XzbQ) I experienced one of those moments of insight. It was the realisation that there is [...]

I attended a conference on pain at Reading University a few months ago. The 2 days were fascinating, having speakers from a wide range of backgrounds. Dr Amanda Williams, UCL, [...]

Mindfulness was first used therapeutically in the West in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn for the treatment of chronic pain. Perhaps what is mindfulness' biggest tool is to stop the tendency [...]