It is widely accepted that engaging in creative activities can help to overcome mental health issues but simply viewing art can significantly improve our wellbeing. Many of us buy art to simply adorn our walls but, while this does positively enhance our living environment, using it solely for aesthetic purposes undermines the power it holds…

Ahhh…December. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire while we deck the halls with boughs of holly.

Or is the reality more like panic shopping for presents and spending money you don’t have, worrying if the turkey is big enough and if it will fit in the oven or dreading the mother in law staying for a week and what she’ll say to annoy you this year?

As the post-pandemic world starts getting busy again we may find ourselves slipping back in to the bad habits we promised we’d change during lockdown…

Back in 2018, when I was three years deep in to my journey of self destruction, a colleague told me about the book he was reading. He explained how it was helping him to manage some issues he’d been having, mainly around anger. I thought it sounded like something that might be able to help me too…