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Whilst we were on holiday last month we drove across the Bealach na Ba pass. It is a beautiful scenic mountain pass on the east coast of Scotland. It is also a very narrow single track road with equally small passing places and some very steep drops at the edge of the road! The road […]

We are just back from a wonderful holiday touring Scotland around the NC500. It is a beautiful coastal route with the most incredible scenery…..and some very interesting roads! As we drove around, we marvelled at so many beautiful views and sights from the stunning west coast beaches to the enormous Smoo Cave on the north

As some of you will already know, September is a special month for me, for several reasons. One of those reasons is the glorious Annual Northeast Skinny Dip I take part in at Druridge Bay in Northumberland. I join over 1000 other wonderful humans to strip naked and run into the North Sea at sunrise

This month in Well of Being we are focusing on the impact of anxiety and how to move beyond its control. Anxiety is an emotion that many of us will avoid at any cost. It creates difficult emotional and physical responses within us, so it is understandable we don’t think favourably of anxiety! What if

When I was unwell recently with gastroenteritis, I noticed that I didn’t experience hay fever as severely as I had previously. I was telling Brian, my husband. “Well,” he said, “My Granddad always said the best cure for toothache is tight-fitting shoes”. There is such wisdom in his granddad’s words because, whilst I was not

This month is pride month – a month dedicated to celebrating the worldwide LGBTQ+ community; a month to celebrate acceptance, equality and love and to remember how destructive homophobia is. Pride encourages pride in who we are, irrespective of who we love. What if you can’t and don’t feel proud of who you are –

I was having a conversation recently with a very dear friend of mine. We were talking in general about changing things and my friend said she needed to be rid of a certain aspect of her appearance so that she could be rid of the cage which has kept her locked up and which has

Sadly many people have experienced dreadful events in their lives and the struggles they experience reflect the huge impact of those events. Our minds come up with many creative ways to manage past trauma and try to protect us. The ways in which we manage past traumas are unique to each individual, but some examples

I recently went to the ballet with a dear friend. It was a beautiful production of Sleeping Beauty with an incredible orchestra. During the interval my friend asked me “Did you hear that commentary?” I had no idea what she was talking about. During the first half of the performance she had heard a commentary

Much of my work is with people who struggle with the thoughts that they’re having and/or the actions they take in response to their thoughts. It is fairly normal human behaviour that we have a thought and we act on it, particularly when not acting on those thoughts create difficult feelings like anxiety or fear.