Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. I’d like to tell you a story. In fact – I’d like to tell you lots of stories. One of the many wonderful things about my job is that I get to work with some fascinating people and uncover some powerful human stories. As a researcher my job is often over once I’ve published these stories in a research report. I’d like to change that. I want to tell these stories in a way that everyone can engage with – not just academics and researchers. I want to share these stories with you – because they are great stories and they need to be shared.Continue reading
The experiment in time and space
March 24th 2013
Today is a very special day for me as it marks the end of a one year experiment in time and space. The experiment started with a problem about space – I needed to find a home. This was proving to be a problem because I was looking for somewhere affordable in London (I was soon to learn that ‘affordable in London’ is an oxymoron).Continue reading
Procrastination antidote – If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing half baked
This website, and in fact, my entire cartooning efforts to-date are brought to you thanks to the power of the phrase ‘If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing half-baked’. I was introduced to this counter-intuitive phrase by a supervisor on a counselling placement a couple of years ago. I find the phrase really useful.Continue reading
The champagne detox
What happens when a psychologist writes her own alcohol detox programme? ‘The champagne detox’ is my personalised approach to starting the new year with a bit of a detox.
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Stuck on a problem? Try using a gardener’s perpective: the permaculture approach to problem solving
Problems. As a human being I love them. In fact, just like everyone else, my brain is a 24/7 problem solving machine – often going to the trouble of inventing imaginary problems for me to find hypothetical solutions to. However, despite all of this practice my brain sometimes needs a hand to arrive at a neat solution to a challenging problem.Continue reading
Biocentrism – Is seeing believing…or creating?
Every now and again I have a ‘thinking day’. These are a highlight in my diary – a whole day dedicated to creativity and thought. I rarely have an agenda for these days – it’s normally more fun just to see what happens. However, on one recent thinking day I decided to spend some time pondering a book I had enjoyed reading – Robert Lanza’s Biocentrism – How life and consciousness are the keys to understanding the true nature of the universe. I stumbled across this book thanks to the many podcasts that I consume on a weekly basis and found the whole topic area to be very fertile ground. So it was great thinking day material.Continue reading