Cancer And The Self-Contract
johndabell I was recently asked how I motivate myself on the days when I don’t really feel like going for a walk outside. It’s a good question because it gets to…
Well Being
Cancer Courage
What is courage to you? Some people make courage Some people take courage Some people mistake courage Some people fake courage Some people medicate courage Some people ache courage Some…
Cancer And Being A Dude
According to good old Wikipedia, Dude is American slang for an individual, typically male. From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a male person who dressed in an…
Cancer and Time
With incurable cancer, time matters. Living with this sort of diagnosis alters your perception of and relationship to time. It means a confrontation with death and no one wants that.…
Write. It. Down.
There is a Chinese proverb which says “the palest ink is stronger than the strongest memory.” This is true. Our ability to recall conversations and events can be unreliable and…
Wellbeing And Tiny Noticeable Things
We all suffer from illness, some of it serious and thankfully most of it less serious. Sometimes we get what is going around because schools are breeding grounds for germs…
The Holmes & Rahe Stress Scale
The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale is a well-known tool for measuring the amount of stress you’ve experienced. In 1967, psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe studied the connections between…
Yoga In Schools
“Yoga is the journey of the self, though the self, to the self” The Bhagavad Gita Many pupils are now being taught yoga as a way of helping support their…
Are You A Teacher Stress Cadet?
We all experience stress in our lives and varying levels of it fluctuate throughout our days. For teachers, stress is a daily part of the job and not all of…
Crab Mentality
Why are we so begrudging of other people doing well? It seems to be an almost national pastime in Britain to pull others down. This ‘Crab Mentality’ is a way…