Sparkling Hand

That pain could be telling you something interesting

Three engineering students were talking about what kind of God designed the human body.  The first said, ‘God must be...

July 2, 2017
School of Fish in Ocean

Who does your mind belong to?

Are you the sole owner of your mind?  Maybe not quite as much as you think. A while back I came across an empty...

June 1, 2017
Orangutang on Tree

Midlife crisis? Go on, you know you deserve it.

Age-inappropriate cravings for sports cars, affairs with secretaries, mutton dressed as lamb – all stereotypes of the...

May 1, 2017
Burnt out Candles

Your candle burned out long before the penny ever dropped

Burnout is insidious.  Its causes –chronic stress chief among them – are cumulative and it’s easy not to realize...

April 1, 2017
Mixture of Paints

Why do people look miserable in art galleries?

A colleague of mine recently went to see an exhibition at the Tate Britain.  He really enjoyed himself because it was...

March 22, 2017
A Star Field

All stressed up and nowhere to go

What you find stressful someone else may not.  The experience of stress varies from person to person, depending on our...

March 5, 2017
Cave Entrance

The right brain for you

How many brains have you got? Answer: two – a left brain and a right brain, each interacting with the other but...

January 5, 2017
Rocky Sand Beach

Grief and Bereavement

Bereavement is the process of moving from not wanting to accept a terrible reality to being able to accept it. For that...

December 30, 2016
Upset Women with Hand on Glass with Water Droplets

Ever been bullied by a Putin?

How do you deal with a bully? There are a lot of high-profile ones around. Vladimir Putin has bullied Ukraine and...

December 19, 2016
Rocky River with Trees

Dying

We all owe a big debt of gratitude to the Swiss-American psychiatrist, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004) for her work...

December 1, 2016