Mental health and video calls in a remote working age. When professional and personal merge, it can have a huge toll on your mental health. — What’s your situation? Do you own your home? Live with your partner, children, pets, family? Sunny days are spent in the garden with the smell of barbequed meat making all of your neighbours jealous. Rainy days are cosy, spent hot chocolate in hand watching the rain with the heating on, or in my…

Service design as a committed relationship It's said that people who come into our lives, do so for a purpose — for a reason, a season or a lifetime. So, how do you meet someone? Social media, word of mouth, online dating … How do you find a product? …

Why LinkedIn is my social media of choice A few months ago I set up focus mode on my phone to minimise distractions from things that do not add to my life. Like everybody else, I found myself being sucked into hours of useless scrolling and dramatisation. …

Imposter A person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain. Imposter Syndrome The persistent inability to believe that one’s success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one’s own efforts or skills. “I feel like an imposter” ‘Imposter’ by definition, is negative. It…

Seems like such a strange concept — the art of listening. Listening is a completely automatic response, I mean, when you have a conversation you listen, right? — To hear or to listen Oxford languages define listening as ‘giving one’s attention to a sound’, while the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries both define listening as ‘to give attention to someone or something in order to hear him, her’. I find this distinction really interesting and important. Listening as a word in the English language…

In my not so humble opinion, mental health is the yin to physical health yang — Let’s start with a clear statement — Mental health and mental ill-health are not to be confused. If you have a brain, you have mental health. The problem From a young age, we are taught how to be kind, how to love and how to show up… for everyone but ourselves. We…

Why we should all be relentlessly empathetic — Ever watched those ‘epic fail’ videos on youtube? Where people fail and usually fall in all kinds of spectacular ways. Are you like me and wince every time it happens, like you actually feel it yourself. When it happens you grab whatever part of the body they dramatically injured. I…

My personal experience and some top tips — Pride Month In the early hours of June 28th 1969 in Greenwich Village, New York City police raided a gay club named the Stonewall Inn. This raid started a riot among bar patrons and neighbourhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons out of the bar, leading to six days of…

Is it marijuana? Will it make you high? Can you drive if you take it? Do you smoke it? Will it make you drowsy? Can people tell you are taking it? What’s it actually for? — What is CBD oil? CBD stands for cannabidiol, it is one of 113 identified cannabinoids found in marijuana and hemp and accounts for up to 40% of the plant’s extract. The effects of marijuana, when smoked or ingested, are split into two — psychoactive (THC) and non-psychoactive (CBD), therefore CBD will not make you…