Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes....

As lockdown eases and the clinic has gotten busier, I’d like to share a few of the statements that I heard this week: “I’m fed up of...

I got home today with a splitting headache*. The kids were with their father, so this was the perfect time to take a bath. The problem...

For the last four months, I have been growing my hair. Its natural growth rate is slower than a snail’s (if a snail had hair, obviously),...

There’s a popular misconception that the Chinese word for crisis is the same as opportunity. But even if it is not, today I’d like to...

As I have alluded to once before, I am an avid journaller. I find that by regularly recording my stream of thoughts (and boy, there are...

Be realistic. Plan for a miracle. - Osho Imagine you could have anything you wanted. Imagine you had a genie. The genie is willing...

The definition of success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill I like this guy. He seems...

I have a dirty little secret. It’s so “dirty” that I don’t even want to write about it. Hell, I don’t even want to accept it, and yet, I...

Selfish. It’s such a loaded word. And it’s not one you want to be called. But what I have realised, is that when someone calls you...

“Can I help you with that?” “No! I can do it myself. I don’t need any help!” This is an interaction between myself and my 7 year-old...

What most people don’t know about me is that I like to fall in love. I fall in love easily. It could be a man, a food, a new yoga style,...

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself you have built against it. - Rumi...

Day 1/7 I tell myself this is a good thing. Somewhere, somehow, I’ve become one of those people who check their phone every 12 seconds....

Today, as I disembark the European cruise*, I contemplate the two observations I’ve made over the past week: 1. There are a lot of...

My grandfather turns 90 on Sunday and, to celebrate, we are on a family cruise in Europe for the week. As our ship pulled out of...

I write today’s blog post, as I‘m reeling from a bad haircut. Yes, I do realise this is a clearly a very first-world problem – a...

Travel to the African savannah and, among the famed lions, elephants and cape buffalo, you will soon encounter the humble warthog. When a...

I have talked about not-feeling in this blog before. It’s the perfect way to keeping going, to carry on, when everything is threatening...

By nature, I am an indecisive person. So, for many years, to remedy this, I’d either indirectly get people to make decisions for me (and...