Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

I’m a comics fan.
Not comix (which are quite a different thing, much more intellectual and anarchic). Comics. Superhero comics. (Various webcomics, too, but I’ll talk about those another time.)
This surprises even people who know me well. For one thing, I’m more or less a feminist (if a man can be a feminist, and I know [...]

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When Sarah James is famous, you’ll be able to say that you saw me interview her, back when.
Sarah is one of my clients, and she very kindly and completely spontaneously offered to let me interview her about her personal growth journey from disintegration to integration, and how working with me has contributed to that journey. [...]

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I have a Thing about control.
photo credit: Jesse757
Not about controlling other people. (In fact, I kind of have a Thing about not controlling other people, because I hate other people trying to control me.) And not even so much about being in control of what’s happening around me, because I figured out early on [...]

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Freud famously claimed that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”.
It isn’t, though.
photo credit: emdot
I was having a conversation the other day with Gareth of Fight Mediocrity, on his guest post for Catherine Caine (she who is awesome online and teaches others to be likewise).
He’d read my last post about replacing caffeine [...]

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What I do – working with people as a health and personal development coach and hypnotherapist – is a personal work. I know what I know not just from academic study but also from my own experience, which is why I can help others who are going through some of the same stuff. But although [...]

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