Being ok, whatever
The crucial distinction between *things* being ok, and *you* being ok 😎
3 min read
Mental Health
Expectations
Quite possibly the ultimate source of our malcontent. They're not ‘bad’ but it pays to spot them. 🕵🏻♀️
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What's your ‘single story’?
Lazy, inaccurate, limiting stereotypes… that we direct against ourselves 😢
2 min read
Identity
Getting there in your own sweet time
Hurts can subside as soon as we realise where they're coming from 🔮
3 min read
Expectations
The tyranny of expectation
Examining the source of my malcontent, during a period of illness 🤧
2 min read
Expectations
Email expectations
The one about how junk mail actually improved things, for once! 📨
2 min read
Relationships
Three things you don't know
And ‘what's going to happen next time you meet that difficult person’ is one of them 🤨
3 min read
Relationships
Restless
If the nature of the mind is restlessness, what are we to do? 🌀
2 min read
Music
Be less Bob
Why I no longer really listen to The Cure 🎸
4 min read
Music
How are you listening?
A powerful video on the mechanics of listening, and how to get the most out of interactions ✨
2 min read
Relationships
“Well, what d’you expect?”
In which Giles realises something about the effortless nature of no-expectations 😮
3 min read
Gratitude
“Dad, I'd never have guessed this would be happening!”
The two things every mind does, all the time, like some sort of greatest hits album 🏅
2 min read
Psychology
Choosing what to worry about
Is it just me, or does it worry more about the stuff that's really *unlikely* to happen 🤦🏻♂️
2 min read
Anxiety