The Creative Instinct

It’s 7:50 am on a Tuesday morning and I’ve just received a tiny, unexpected gift from nature involving a couple of spiders and an intricate dance of life and death.
I’ve been mulling over a post about the power of small gifts for a few days now, without it quite coming together. How wonderful then, that […]

We British can be terribly stiff about hugging.
Friend and colleague Jeni Mumford was out in the streets of historic York the other day giving out free hugs. She gives a wonderful account of her exploits on her Jeni Starfish blog - and knowing Jeni for the warm and sparkling person that she is, I’m sure […]

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about attaining enhanced wellbeing - about what brings people a sense of fulfilment, meaning and peace. All at once my thoughts crystallized into this simple formula that cuts to the essence of how to increase your sense of lifelong wellbeing.
Despite its extreme brevity is not meant to be […]

Here’s a question to mull over – what happens if your definition of the word success is so difficult to attain that it cripples your ability to achieve it and blinds you to the very real successes that you can (maybe already have) achieved?

The trouble with the word ‘success’ is that we often take […]

I’ve just read Chris Dunmire’s book review of The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression, by Eric Maisel. You’ll also find an excerpt from the book, which is certainly worth taking a moment to read.
Now I haven’t read the book yet – only Chris’s review and the excerpt. There’s clearly a lot […]