When you say that you teach, you always get some purveyor of wisdom shoving this old chestnut at you. 'Well, you know what they say? Those that can do and those that can’t teach!' So if my vision is to be the 'can do', by teaching am I destined to be one of the...
When your son tells you that your house is falling down you pay attention. In actual case it was just some cracks appearing in the wall. It's because we have a newly built apartment and after a little settling in cracks can appear in the plaster and paint. For DIY'ers...
One of the most repeated pieces of advice I give to people is, "You're not broken." I say this so many times. And I believe that it's true. It's sort of the opposite to therapy. In that case you look at the damage caused from your past and relive it or express it to...
You know the cliché very well. Some well meaning boss, teacher or parent type figure misinterprets being supportive by actually projecting their need to control you: “This is serious! It’s no time for playing around.’ This conditioned directive is the same one they...
The thing about having a dream, or even just setting a big goal, is that it can stop you in your tracks. You freeze. I'll show you how practice is the key. “I don’t know if I could ever do that!” “That just seems unrealistic. How am I ever going to start?” A voice...
I'm a masher and my work is a mash-up. There are so many strands to include, sometimes I don’t even know what I do. In fact, there are definitely people at my work who don’t really get what I do. So I try to work with the key themes that I find cropping up often. You...