Reflections

A simple comment in a podcast I was listening to recently stopped me in my tracks. The conversation was about healthy ageing, morning routines and the everyday habits that seem to make the biggest difference over a lifetime. In amongst the discussion came a simple observation that has stayed with me ever since. We often don't value the things that cost us nothing. If something is free, uncomplicated and available to everyone, we somehow assume it can't possibly be that import

This week has felt... noisy. Every time I opened the news there seemed to be another crisis unfolding somewhere in the world. One headline warned about war. The next predicted that artificial intelligence was about to replace humanity. Then came another YouTube video confidently explaining why the end of civilisation was apparently just around the corner. After a while I noticed something happening inside me, not panic or anxiety exactly, just that familiar feeling of uncerta

I've always considered myself a people person. One of the things I've loved most about being a psychologist is having the privilege of sitting with people from every walk of life. Every day I meet people with different stories, personalities, beliefs and life experiences and I genuinely find human beings fascinating. I can happily spend hours talking to someone I've only just met, whether it's a light-hearted conversation about the weather or sitting alongside them through so

This past month has been full. Not the exciting kind of full, but the kind where life quietly piles one thing on top of another until you suddenly realise you've been carrying a lot more than you thought. My teenage son has been recovering from surgery. My elderly dad had a fall and broke his arm, so there have been hospital visits and helping my parents when they needed an extra pair of hands. At the same time, I've been organising my own surgery, something I've been putting