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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“Eating your own dog food” is the rather disgusting expression the technology industry uses to mean using your own product.
Lately, I’ve been working on what was originally a course on emotions. (It’s now split into a free course on Simple Stress Management Techniques and another, yet-to-be-announced product). Ever since I’ve been working on it, [...]

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Have you ever thought about what you’d change if you could go back in time?
It’s often a theme of time travel fiction that the really big events can’t be changed. In Connie Willis’s hilarious novel To Say Nothing of the Dog, for instance, no time traveller can get within 200km or 5 years of the [...]

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