Managing Pain: The Case for Compassion
For most of my career I have worked as a Clinical Psychologist in Pain Management, trying to help people with long term pain to respond...
Same again?
It's Thursday and I am planning for my next few mindfulness drop-in sessions. I notice that I'm trying to make sure I include new...
A Mindful Response
I teach mindfulness in a pain clinic in North East England as part of my role in the NHS. There is a long history of evidence that it...
When you just have to be mindful
This week, I was guiding a mindful walking and movement on the beach session in Whitley Bay. I was enjoying the bracing feeling of the...
Safe?
When we practise lovingkindness we wish for ourselves and others to be safe. Often in everyday life we would like ourselves and our nearest
Life without Limits
When we think that we can't do something, do we really have to believe that thought? So often our thoughts are a product of the past, w
5 reasons why we hate foreigners
We are living through a time when people in many countries through the world seem to be polarising against each other. Families fleeing,...
Why we might want to become more embodied, and 5 ways to help us do it.
When we are embodied, we have an awareness of our body as a whole, including sensations strong and subtle. This awareness is highly adaptiv
Good Choices
In my work as a psychologist I so often see people struggling to make life changes that they would reallly like to make. I encounter the...
