Who makes you happy? Who is that someone that even just thinking about them can make you smile, give you a bit of a warm feeling inside? Someone who gives you strength perhaps, builds your confidence …someone who enhances your wellbeing, brings a positive stillness when things around you spiral out of control … someoneContinue reading “Who Makes You Happy?”
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Bringing Help When You Can’t
So here we are, May 2021 and I am supposed to be in India. I am supposed to be in India delivering mental health training. I am supposed to be in India physically connecting with the people there who I love. I am supposed to be in India filling my inner well with the energyContinue reading “Bringing Help When You Can’t”
Making a difference
Do you ever wonder if you make a difference? I do. Some days I wonder if I am doing anything useful at all, adding value, doing any good … Some days I just think … What’s the point? I can spend the day meaning well and working hard … and then make that classical errorContinue reading “Making a difference”
Mobile Phones: Shackled or Connected?
Shackled to my phone? Maybe … just a bit. We hear about this a lot these days. Everyone is tied to their phones … addicted. “It’s social media! Fake news! Bullying! Time wasting! Removed from reality! A scourge on our society …” Well they may have a point but there are good things too …Continue reading “Mobile Phones: Shackled or Connected?”
Connecting physically from far away
If this last year or so has taught me anything, it is how reliant I am on the ability to physically connect with all those I love, whenever I choose. How incredibly lucky I have been over my life to be able to move around and travel, visiting the people that enrich me, nourish me,Continue reading “Connecting physically from far away”
Most of us have lost people we love…
Sometimes I can smell my dad. Not B.O. or aftershave. He gave up smoking many years ago and he didn’t drink near the end either, so it isn’t that sort of scent. Sometimes I can just smell my dad. Dad died five years ago after struggling with dementia and some other conditions that come withContinue reading “Most of us have lost people we love…”
What builds your energy?
What builds your energy? What brings excitement and power to your day? Do you find that some days are like making your way through a vat of treacle? That showing a bright and happy face is nigh on impossible and the thought of being ‘Positive Penny’ just exhausts you? It can happen to anyone. ItContinue reading “What builds your energy?”
Mental Strides 