Clown for emotional health
4 years ago I had a car cash. It was raining hard on the motorway when suddenly, the steering wheel stopped connecting to the car wheels. In what seemed like slow motion, my car smashed into the crash barrier. Part of my brain went into a state of shock, but another part [...]
Humour fit
"You are becoming a vegetable" Two weeks of holidays have taken their toll on my exercise routine. Zero stretches, crunches, squats or lunges. And the less I do, the less I feel like doing. Just getting out the gym mat seems like excessive exercise. But today I do it anyway. The mat [...]
Keep exploring
Didn't get around to doing all that you'd dreamed of at Easter? Like climbing Mount Everest, jumping out of an aircraft without a parachute, a cruise to the moon? Or maybe you'd wanted to find love in a waste-paper bin, live in a teapot for a week, befriend a broom, be abducted [...]
Clown and self-acceptance
30 years ago I thought I was broken... Something was wrong with me that needed fixing. I didn't know how to be myself. Or rather, there were just far too many mes contending for that priority spot; jostling to get attention, bickering amongst themselves, working on the side-lines to undermine my confidence [...]
Stop thinking so much!
For the past couple of weeks I've spent far too much time thinking... Living life in my head - composing emails, creating useful content for social media, trying to remember things, inventing possible solutions, wondering how to best communicate something, devising lists for my work day, deciding what I'm going to cook, [...]