Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

Freud famously claimed that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”.
It isn’t, though.
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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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I was a word nerd before I was a hypnotherapist – my degree is in English language (it was almost in linguistics), and I worked as a book editor for years. So I found this recent study in Psychological Science very interesting.
English, unlike some other languages, has a thing called “aspect”, which can be [...]

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My first degree was in English language, and besides the various other things I do, I write fiction. I’ve completed a novel, City of Masks, which is told in the first person as a series of journal entries and letters, and am working on another, Gu, which is told rather unusually in the second person [...]

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