The Daily Reminders

This made me laugh: “I've got everything I need! I have YouTube and my room and all my stuff” It's my daughter! 😂🤣 But here's the thing: * You're already ‘good now’ * You can't ‘better yourse…

Apr 7·1 min read·92 words

17 Days: Implications

The Insight Series - Part 3. Watching pieces of the jigsaw fall into place 🧩

Apr 6·8 min read·1424 words

Waves on the ocean

Why waves are the best metaphor for our true nature that you'll ever come across 🌊

Apr 5·1 min read·20 words

17 Days: Thought realisation

The Insight Series - Part 2. Seeing through the outside-in misunderstanding 💭

Apr 4·1 min read·16 words

Perspectives

There are points of view, and then there are entirely separate realities ♋️

Apr 3·1 min read·14 words

17 Days: The lead-up

The Insight Series - Part 1. The backdrop to change ⏳

Apr 2·1 min read·15 words

Clouds

One of the best metaphors for the workings of the mind 🌤️

Apr 1·1 min read·13 words

All right, all wrong

Where conflicting advice comes from and how to take it ↔️

Mar 31·1 min read·15 words

Beating night shift dread

The key to avoiding pre-night shift heebie-jeebies 🫣

Mar 30·2 min read·361 words

What does it mean, to have innate wellbeing?

Unpicking the notion of someone ‘having’ innate wellbeing 🫥

Mar 29·1 min read·17 words

Seeing life through thought

Two observations I heard that'll slow you down 😐

Mar 28·1 min read·13 words

“A bit more on OCD”

Two change stories detailing what happens when you look *away* from mental dis-order 💗

Mar 27·6 min read·1195 words

Don't forget to have fun

It is *so* easy to get caught up in life's travails. What's important to you? 🤔

Mar 26·1 min read·21 words

Open loops

Get those bad boys closed, unless you want a broken heart 💔

Mar 25·1 min read·14 words

Not writing about conditions

Why it's not always helpful to look at the details of a diagnosis 👩🏻‍⚕️

Mar 24·1 min read·18 words

In praise of (faux) planning

A neat little trick to help you work with the mind, instead of it bringing you down 📆

Mar 23·1 min read·23 words

Always creating

You can't escape creativity, so you don't have to *try* and be creative 🌬️

Mar 22·2 min read·208 words

Get it off your mind

Thinking of getting some help with something? This is the criterion to use ☝🏻

Mar 21·1 min read·19 words

Where wisdom comes from

“Wisdom is impersonal. Wisdom is also the path to all psychological understanding” 🌹

Mar 20·1 min read·17 words

The hope of being wrong

A delightful podcast for better relationships all round – personal and work 🎧

Mar 19·1 min read·18 words

Unknown unknowns

The thing that’s going to help you change lies outside of your current frame of reference ✨

Mar 18·1 min read·19 words

If the disease is in you…

Inside-out pointers are everywhere, when you get an eye for them 🕵️‍♂️

Mar 17·1 min read·18 words

Anticipating vs. panicking

What to do when something that's helpful goes and strays into ‘unhelpful’ territory 📉

Mar 16·1 min read·17 words

You won't believe your eyes

A truly remarkable illustration of the ‘made up’ thought-created reality we all inhabit 😲

Mar 15·1 min read·19 words

How to enjoy sad music

A funny little reframe you can do, to unlock the joy in sad lyrics 👩‍🎤

Mar 14·1 min read·20 words

The enlightened scorpion

Do we all have ‘scorpion nature’ and if so, what can we do about it? 🦂

Mar 13·1 min read·19 words

How to solve any problem

Let's start by looking at what problems actually are 🤷🏻‍♂️

Mar 12·1 min read·15 words

Do you know what mood you're in?

Because if you do, you're winning 🙌🏻

Mar 11·1 min read·14 words

The fallibility of memory

Did you know that memories aren't really memories of events at all? 🗄️

Mar 10·1 min read·17 words

You don't need to manage your experience

Exploring why we might need to get involved in a harmless process 🙂

Mar 9·1 min read·20 words

The bus driver

This is your bus. You’re in charge and you’re doing all the driving. Aren’t you? 🤔

Mar 8·1 min read·19 words

Why ageing is not a problem

You won't know how it feels to be x-years old, until you're x-years old. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Mar 7·1 min read·21 words

Throw the tape out the window

How to approach these Daily Reminders 💌

Mar 6·1 min read·13 words

Feeling guilty is ok

“Guilt is a useless emotion” – debate 🤷🏻‍♂️

Mar 5·1 min read·12 words

A little more optimism

Keeping our feet on the ground as aspirations (and worries) soar 😌

Mar 4·1 min read·16 words

Where you’re coming from

The antecedent of what you do, and why you do it 💖

Mar 2·1 min read·16 words

In celebration of being wrong (again)!

You're dressing wrong, when you're out on your bike. Embrace it. 😅

Feb 28·1 min read·18 words

Mind really interesting (MRI)

What happens when you’re forced to lie still in a tube for 40 minutes 😳

Feb 27·1 min read·19 words

In praise of boredom

Can we re-train the mind with awareness alone? 📵

Feb 26·1 min read·13 words

Misery and happiness

Fiddling while Rome burns, and feeling all the feels as it does 🔥

Feb 25·1 min read·16 words

The magic trick

The greatest magic trick the world has ever known is going on inside you, right now 🪄

Feb 24·1 min read·20 words

Stepping stones

Just because you have a Big Dream, doesn't mean you have to drop everything 🤩

Feb 23·1 min read·17 words

Low mood writing

What’s it like, actually *in* a low mood? 😞

Feb 22·1 min read·12 words

Are you reinforcing bad behaviour?

By rewarding the mind for its patterns of behaviour, we're inviting more 💁🏻‍♀️

Feb 21·1 min read·18 words

An argument you'll win

You can win any argument that's not happening in reality 🤡

Feb 20·1 min read·15 words

How arguments start

Easy enough to avoid, but you have to spot it first 🔎

Feb 19·1 min read·15 words

When you least expect it

You can expect some of life's biggest changes to happen when you're least expecting them 🤪

Feb 18·1 min read·21 words

Are you having a relationship in your head?

An innocent, and quietly destructive practice we're all guilty of, me included 🙊

Feb 17·1 min read·21 words

Practice!

Do we want to talk about this stuff, or live it? 😄

Feb 16·4 min read·657 words

Change, to order

In retrospect it might seem like we should have ‘known better’ but we don't get to choose 💁🏻‍♀️

Feb 15·1 min read·21 words

Love isn't supposed to be easy

Oh, was I supposed to do soppy on February 14th? 💘

Feb 14·1 min read·17 words

Just tree

A simple Zen story that helps us manage life's difficulties 🎋

Feb 13·1 min read·13 words

Elementary!

How working from basic principles makes everything manageable 🕵️‍♂️

Feb 12·1 min read·10 words

Just for today

What if that big thing looming in your life, isn't really big at all? ☝🏻

Feb 11·1 min read·18 words

Additive vs. subtractive

Had you ever considered that you really *are* enough? ☺️

Feb 11·1 min read·13 words

Observing symptoms

So much to be learned from being ill! 🤢

Feb 10·5 min read·965 words

Putting up with things

A disclaimer about the nature of acceptance 🚩

Feb 7·1 min read·12 words

The red flag of ‘should’

A disclaimer about the nature of advice 🚩

Feb 6·1 min read·13 words

Your reality is a perception of the mind

A short video with three helpful metaphors for how we experience the world 🎬

Feb 3·1 min read·22 words

The journey

The 4-step process we all go through, on the path to an easier life 🥰

Jan 27·1 min read·17 words

Going fishing

A powerful visual metaphor for the mind's relationship to past, present and future 🕰️

Jan 26·1 min read·16 words

The Daily Reminders

Longform Stories

I took a day off and it was really hard

Does being in flow make you cranky?

Listening notes

Created, not discovered

Testing whether it's true

The not quite daily Daily Reminders 📰

Emotions vs. Feelings

Flying the coop

“Now’s not the time, honey!”

100% of pain, too.

A deeper level of okayness

Presence and creativity

The thing vs. Your experience of the thing

Don't wait

Your response to a situation *is* the situation

Limitless

One cause of our mental woes?

Diagnoses: the power and the peril

A new definition for Mental Health

Mental health and biology

A new paradigm for mental healthcare

We're all deluded

What is mental health?

Every decision in your life

Introversion as an excuse

I should be having a bad day

Forcing yourself to be sociable

Give in to joy

A you-shaped aperture

It’s all headcanon

Where did the idea come from?

Helping others: Staying open

Ignoring thought (your concerns)

Two things to worry about

Not knowing

Laying bricks

Choice or no choice?

Helping others: Being present

How do you handle mistakes?

“But if I ignore my thinking…”

Go to sleep, mind 🔖

Cherokee wisdom

You can't do it wrong

Helping others: Showing up

One thing at a time

Living it

Feeling the difference

Before concept

Why isn't there more research?

Two moods in the room

The gravitational pull of a mood

Illusion of control

Nowhere to get to

Is more, better?

The sun is always shining

17 Days: Innate Health

Outside-in perils

Already great