January 2025

If taking care of yourself helps you feel happier and healthier, and more inspired and motivated; if taking care of yourself thus makes you a better partner and parent, colleague and friend; how then could self-care be selfish? Self-care is NOT selfish, it's what's best for...

31 January, 2025

... be kind and caring and thoughtful. ... respond with dignity and respect. ... muster the courage to do hard things. ... ask for help and allow yourself rest....

30 January, 2025

No-one, ever, has hated their way to happiness. Discomfort can be motivating, but only if it first comes from a position of understanding and even, ideally, compassion. Self-compassion, on the other hand, which includes self-kindness, combines self-care with self-inspiration. This is what we all need to be working...

29 January, 2025

After quite a few years of dark depression, I'm feeling happier and more optimistic now than I have for a long time. And you can too! I know it's not easy, but it is possible. If I can do it, you can too. So hang in there, keep...

28 January, 2025

Doing the right thing isn't always easy. In fact, doing the right thing can sometimes be difficult and distressing. But doing the right thing is still, always, the right thing and so, always worth doing. Do the right thing and when necessary, accept the pain....

25 January, 2025

Let it be just what it is. Let them be just what they are. But remember also, let yourself be who you are AND let yourself respond in ways that are healthy and helpful. This is acceptance combined with action. This is happiness....

24 January, 2025

25 years ago I left what was my dream job, to start what became my new dream job. 5 years after that, I changed to create another dream position. And now I'm doing something else entirely, which is my new dream. Change and evolution are healthy. Try not...

22 January, 2025

Happiness isn't finding a place of perfection and calm. Happiness is finding a way to be calm amidst imperfection and chaos. Happiness is acceptance of all that is....

21 January, 2025

Some say life's all about the journey. But reaching a destination can also be meaningful and satisfying. I say both are important but also, what's MORE important is ...

20 January, 2025