This is what my 5 year old said to me on the way to ski school this morning: ‘Mama, I do want to be a great skier, but I don’t want to be a learner.’ ‘I know exactly what you mean, wee man’, is what I said. Wouldn’t it be so fun to click into …
Who doesn’t love a bit of office gossip? We get to feel connected to the person we are gossiping with and that feels good. Usually, the nature of the gossip gives us a fleeting sense of superiority, schadenfreude or entertainment. All of which are a welcome distraction to what’s going on in our head at …
Does your husband empty the dishwasher? Mine sometimes does and sometimes doesn’t. It used to be an enormous source of contention for me. Not for him, just for me. I like the dishwasher to be emptied at night, just before bedtime. Here’s why. I spend the first 90 minutes or so of my day alone …
‘The true test of a person’s character is what they do when no one is watching’ – John Wooden Do you pretend not to notice that the loo roll is out in the office facilities (or indeed the ones at home, and if you know my husband, please show him this ;)), leaving the cardboard …
They’re not going to find you out because there’s nothing to find out.Your brain just thinks there is. Here’s what’s really going on when you have thoughts like that. For many years at work, I had the feeling of well, fear, that I experienced regularly. The feeling came from a thought that sounded something like this …
