There are days when I want to scream in frustration. Some days I feel a shed load of regret over past decisions. There are other days when I feel grateful to have reached my 50s in relatively good health. There are even moments when I wonder whether I have a right to be suffering from …
Counting your blessings improves your mental health so get counting
During the first lockdown, way back in Spring 2020, I sat in my familiar garden but experienced an unfamiliar sensation. Sitting in my garden was something that I had done hundreds of times before but there was a newness to it all that day. An eerie silence hung in the air instead of the …
Thrilled To Be Awarded An MBE In The Honours List 2023
It is my greatest honour, privilege and blessing to have been awarded an MBE in the King’s first New Year’s Honours list. I work in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as a very proud civil servant. I firmly believe in public service as an enabler for people’s wellbeing in all senses …
A Midlife Suggestion for Goal Setting
Eeks, is it that time of the year again! I spend the last few days of a year looking at my previous goals and evaluating where I have been successful or not. Sadly, some goals are carried over from year to year and I look forward to the day when I will finally be able …
Never Lose your Curiousity in Older Life
If I were a song writer, I would have composed words along the lines of ‘raindrops and roses…’ as an addendum to the song on how watching your cat marvel at her first snowfall can be one of your favourite things. It snowed for hours and I stayed the course with her curiousity. Curiousity …
