Cancer And Thought Terminating Clichés
johndabell It is what it is. I heard that when I was first told about my cancer. I still hear it said today. It appears to be a cultural response to…
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Bitter Or Better? Time For A Vowel Transplant!
It’s amazing what one little letter will do to change its meaning. It’s amazing what this can do for your mindset as well. Take the word ‘bitter’ meaning ‘expressing a…
Mental Spaghetti
Some days look and feel like a bowl of cooked spaghetti. Things are all tangled up and intertwined. The day might not start like that though. It might look like…
Keeping The Positive Pipeline Going
Don’t let anyone or anything sabotage your pipeline of positives. It has to be kept pumping! Your pipeline has to be kept in active service because it’s keeping all the…
Be A Mental Health Philanthropist
Spread the mental wealth and pay it forward. If you have plenty of mental health then you could say that you are mentally wealthy. Mentally, I’m in great shape despite…
Cancer And Being More Turtle
As cancer survivors, it’s good to help others going through the rigours of the disease. For anyone newly diagnosed it can be a terrifying experience and so if we can…
The 5 H’s: Hope, Hugs, Hunting, Humour, & Hendrix
Mental health is a work in progress and something we are always tinkering with. It’s not something that we ‘achieve’ because it is constantly changing. There are various models and…
Eunoia
We all want a well mind and to be blessed with beautiful thinking. To be well-balanced where we exhibit kindness and goodwill is something we can all strive for. There…
Achieving That ‘Condor Moment’
Before I started reading Tim Peake’s autobiography Limitless I knew that I was going to learn plenty. I mean, astronauts have plenty to share and what they are particularly good…
A Recipe For Wellbeing
Let’s be clear. Schools are not closed. In the UK, schools have remained open despite lockdown and they have done so for the critical workers and their children. Yet, social…