Weekly Words 20th February

This week, Tim D drew my attention to a little gem that featured on the evening news. A recent study conducted by Travelodge has indicated that the pandemic has in fact increased levels of kindness! Could you imagine nicer news? (Perhaps, maybe an end to the pandemic I hear you cry!). The areas [...]

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Weekly Words 6th February

As I’m sure you’ll know - since I’ve been talking about it for weeks! - the team has been working towards the Now and Beyond Festival on Inside Out Day, part of Children’s Mental Health Week 2021. Well, this last Wednesday was February 3rd - the day itself! And what a day it [...]

Weekly Words 30th January

How are you feeling as we turn out of January and into the next month? I can’t say I’ll be too sad to see the back of January – it’s been quite a difficult month in many ways, and while I’m sure there are challenging times anew to come, there are lots of [...]

Weekly Words 23rd January

It’s the weekend - hurrah! And you know what that means - yes, it’s your Weekly Words. How have your weeks been? We’ve been enjoying some winter sunshine here in Northwood, and I’ve made the most of it with a couple of lovely mindful walks with Archie Archibald. The weather can switch from [...]

Weekly Words 16th January

This week, we’ve got a special investigation into an age-old debate: to text or to call? I was recently reading an article about a recent study which found that, when participants were asked either to email or call a friend, those who spoke on the phone reported higher feelings of closeness and satisfaction – [...]

By |2021-02-06T17:24:09+00:00January 19th, 2021|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

It’s 6:30 am…

It’s 6:30 am. And I’ve woken early on my day off. It’s my birthday! And Archie is fast asleep downstairs. As I peer out of the window and breathe in the beautiful colours in the sky, it feels like time for change and a new year ahead. I ponder on the [...]

By |2021-02-06T17:20:49+00:00August 29th, 2019|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Offline Paradise

It was late, dark and I was standing on the street saying goodbye to my friend, Gez, feeling as if another ‘problem’ came my way I may well super-implode. With only days until my holiday I had that feeling so many of us have, that I simply couldn’t fit everything in [...]

By |2021-02-06T17:21:02+00:00August 8th, 2019|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Time Is…

Time is precious. Time is money. Time is of the essence. There’s never enough time in the day. Just a handful of the phrases we use that illustrate our relationship with time. A colleague asked me recently, if I said to you, ‘Time is…,’ how would you fill that sentence? And it [...]

By |2021-02-06T17:21:29+00:00July 25th, 2019|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Kids and Comedic Canines

Yesterday children’s mental health was again in the news. We hear of primary school teachers speaking out about the lack of support for young children when it comes to their mental health - and child mental health support referrals being up almost 50% in the past 3 years for children under [...]

By |2021-02-06T17:21:36+00:00July 18th, 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , |2 Comments

A Laughing Matter

‘Laughter is contagious’ is the theory behind my new laughing dog song for our children’s mental health project. So as I drove to my composer’s studio, I pondered on how little I’d been laughing recently, and wondered if I was really the right person to be doing this final mix with [...]

By |2021-02-06T17:21:41+00:00July 11th, 2019|Tags: , , , |2 Comments
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