Load up Instagram and search for hashtags such as #cleaneats and you’ll unearth a wealth of enticingly colourful dishes… and many of them will be made from entirely raw ingredients. Raw food diets are probably the natural next step in our quest for pure, wholesome eating. Many of us have already shunned gluten, sugar, dairy [...]
Anxiety is a very common and very real issue in 21st century life, with many celebrities and members of the Royal family speaking openly about their own struggles. Anxiety can occur in all social settings and bears no boundaries on age, race or sexual orientation. Its effects can be debilitating and relentless. For that reason, [...]
I only use Facebook to maintain my Dont Mind Life community page so generally, if there is nothing of interest in my timeline on the first page, I don’t look beyond it. Similarly I am not one to post my every movement either. A few days ago, there was however a post that caught my [...]
The last few months has been filled with a unity amongst strangers that is seemingly impossible to create when there are no overriding, special circumstances. First we had the World Cup where nations from across the World selected their talented team and travelled to Rio to compete in Football's most glamorous honor. Millions of people [...]
Question: If you don't have hope, does that mean there is less hope, no hope, or things are just hopeless? When I look back over the past 12 months it has been quite a year. I cannot believe the time has flown by so quickly, but the rocky road I have travelled has been completely [...]
Every single one of my private clients always starts off in our first few sessions saying that their life is a seemingly constant bombardment of pressure and stress, with no real purpose or direction. It would appear there has never been a more complex time where we find our lives so intertwined that it is [...]
Without wishing to brag, I used to be rather fit (physically fit, not the other one). From my time at primary school all the way up to college, I kept myself fit simply by walking. I would walk to primary school, which was a good 10-15 minute trip, and even though I used to get [...]
A sudden sense of awkwardness, sweaty palms, a rush of heat to your cheeks and before you know it your redder than a beetroot and there’s nothing you can do about it. Should you sense this embarrassment (God forbid you do) then it’s just a downward spiral from there on, think you can’t get any [...]
The following article can be written in two ways, one is a scientific approach based on studies and the science about why sleep paralysis happens, or the other is about what the recipient of this strange sleeping disorder goes through on one of those nights; I think I will focus more on the second way... [...]
Last year The Guardian published an interesting article about the “Death of Conversation”. It outlines the stance that humans now use headphones as avoidance techniques to escape conversation, and how many of us are now learning to make eye contact and text at the same time. The article also implies the dangers of how social [...]
