Resilience! That's a big topic. It's so big that if you search 'How to build resilience' on Google you get .... 206 000 000 results!! Yes!! Two hundred and six million!! Fancy ploughing your way through that lot? If you do that search and start reading yo

Self-consciousness! I have been seeing something about this recently. Google says: 'Undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions.' And the part of this definition which stands out to me is 'undue'. Not to make this end up like an English

Happiness! That's a topic which is often discussed isn't it? Where does it come from? How do we get more of it? What does it even mean? When you contemplate your own happiness ... what do you see? The Google definition of happiness is 'a state of well-bei

Enough! When I consider the word 'enough' it feels like a chasm.  A hole which would be unfillable if we tried to fill it.  It's impossible to measure what is enough. Maybe in fact everything is.  Maybe everything is perfect just as it is.&

Prescription! I spent a long time searching for the right one. Thinking that there must be an answer out there. That thing that would make me 'better'. It seemed like there were so many wise people. They were wiser than me. They knew how to fix me. It was

Mistakes! It looks like we all make them but do we really? Here's a different take. In the moment when you do something it looks right! It is the best thing to do. In that moment there isn't anything else. That's the thinking which looks real. Later that

You can't do that! Is that something you have heard before? Who said it first? A teacher A parent An older sibling That's not relevant as it happens Because they are not here now are they. But that voice in your head still is isn't it. The one which makes

Mental health! Are we really talking about it? It looks like we are. Wherever we look there are news articles, posts, memes, quotes. But just notice for a moment. Are we talking about mental health or mental illness. It's the latter I fear. We are looking

Feelings! I spent ages trying to solve them! If my circumstances are x, I will feel y. If they stop doing a I will feel b. If I don't have c experience I will feel d. It was exhausting. But then I heard something new. There isn't a solution to a feeling.

Perception! Otherwise know as thought in the moment. It is creating our reality 100% of the time. There is a real world out there. There are real things happening inside me. But my experience of those comes to me through thought! And I begin to wonder; ho