The New Productivity is a movement from doing to being.

There’s a great viral video doing the rounds at the moment: Cynthia Nixon, all punk attitude, describing the many ways women are told to...

I remember my own burnout experience. I was in my final year of an academic and competitive degree. It didn’t start out badly: in year...

Sometimes I can tell how much writing a blog post is going to hurt by how many other tasks I discover need doing before I’ll sit down and...

January can be an emotional month. We look back on the year that has been, while a new year comes knocking. Expectation and opportunities...

There’s a tendency at this time of year to act a little bizarre. In the space of 24 hours we leap from gorging on Lindor chocolate...

We’re back in the annual round of Christmas adverts, special toasted marshmallow coffees, snowman jumpers and everything else Crimbo....

I’ve been sorting through some stuff from my past recently, and like most sifting through of old memories, it’s been tough at times. I’ve...

Right now, a very close friend of mine is going through a traumatic experience, and the impact on her health, family and mindset is...

What does nourishment mean for you? A pot of warm soup? Your classic stew recipe, or the ever-comforting roast dinner your parents served...

Loneliness, to me, feels like being trapped in a suffocating box. You know those big, thick boxes you only have to deal with when moving...

Last week I did something that was pretty ridiculous.  It involved getting cold, muddy, very wet and disgustingly stinky.  I took part in...

When Norwegian author and explorer, Erling Kagge walked solo for 50 days across Antarctica to the South Pole, he said it was the quietest...

A confession: in a previous life, I was a Classicist. I studied Latin at university and with the zeal of the convert, I adored it (and...

My natural instinct as a young student then was the same guiding principle that runs through all of the social behemoths - to connect.

Have you ever had an experience where you feel alien to yourself - like a part of you that you don’t recognise is in the driving seat?...

When was the last time you bit your tongue in a meeting? When that difficult colleague sent back that passive-aggressive email, did you...

It’s in the news, it’s on Instagram, it’s in your workplace, it’s on your dinner plate and it’s filling up your online shopping basket....

These days I still like a tidy house, but I’ve learnt that going all out for a perfect state of affairs is the route to unhappiness.

When I was a little girl, I used to run away. Not from home, but if we were out in a park, for a walk in the woods, then I’d bolt.