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OCD and Me – What is OCD?

OCD and Me – What is OCD? In my last blog I share my personal story of what living with OCD is like and how Solution Focused Hypnotherapy helped turn my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder into Optimistic, Courageous and Daring! But just what is OCD? OCD comes in 2...

The Happiest Team in the UK 4 Years On

The Happiest Team in the UK 4 Years On! On International Day of Happiness, we are celebrating here at Inspired To Change! 2021 is the year that we are 10 years old! That’s 10 years since Inspired To Change was founded by Solution Focused Hypnotherapist and...

OCD and Me – a Personal Story of Recovery

OCD and Me – a Personal Story of Recovery I have OCD….Obsessive Compulsive Disorder….there I said it. It’s taken me a good 30 years to realise, come to terms with and accept that OCD is an integral part of me and probably always will be. In April 2019 I made a...

Resilience Building for Highly Sensitive People

Resilience Building for Highly Sensitive People It certainly seems that some people can roll with the punches whilst others are completely knocked off balance. Why? The good news is that whilst there are biological and environmental differences that determine how...

The Impact of Dementia on Relationships

The Impact of Dementia on Relationships When someone is diagnosed with dementia it can have a profound effect on relationships, not just a spousal relationship but any type of relationship. If someone you care about is diagnosed with Dementia it can be a worrying time...

Is Your Child an Orchid or a Dandelion?

Is Your Child an Orchid or a Dandelion? For those of you following the Inspired to Change teams Facebook live sessions throughout the autumn you will have noticed that our Devon Associate Emma Treby has been talking about orchids and dandelions and “High...

Let’s Hug!

Lets Hug! The 21st of January is designated as “National Hug Day”! Defined as “the act of holding another person tightly with ones arms, typically to express affection”, a hug is a universal gesture, common to all ages. Since the world became caught up in the...

Top Tips to Enjoy a Different Christmas

Top Tips to Enjoy a Different Christmas There is no denying that this Christmas is going to be different! But that doesn’t mean we can’t have just as much fun! Why not try one of our Top Tips below and really make this Christmas special? Tip 1 –...

Let’s Do Christmas!

Let’s Do Christmas! I’m seeing lots of posts on social media and hearing lots of friends saying that Christmas is cancelled this year. Lockdown no’s 1 and 2 and the new Tier System have certainly put restrictions in place that will inevitably change our usual...

ADHD Awareness Month – How can ADHD be managed?

October is ADHD Awareness Month My son has ADHD, and believe me – like most other parents in that position, I am already very aware of it. So like all of these “awareness” months, this one in October is for other people – to try and educate, inform and...

ADHD Awareness Month – What is ADHD?

October is ADHD Awareness Month My son has ADHD, and believe me – like most other parents in that position, I am already very aware of it. So, like all of these “awareness” months, this one in October is for other people – to try and educate, inform, and...

Are you one of the many joining in with Go Sober for October or Stoptober?

Are you one of the many joining in with Go Sober for October or Stoptober? These are big events trying to encourage the nation to stop drinking or smoking for the month. Covid-19 and lockdown have played a huge part in the nation’s change of drinking habits. Drinking...

How Can Hypnotherapy Help with Dementia?

How Can Hypnotherapy Help with Dementia? Dementia Action Week is a really important opportunity to focus, not just on the condition of dementia and the impact it has on the individual, but on what we can do to help the people who will be caring for them. Dementia...

Why do men kill themselves?

Why Do Men Kill Themselves? That is a question I’m often asked and of course there is no simple answer. Another question I get asked is, “Why don’t men talk?” Often the people who have asked me this question voice their own varied opinions here. As a...

Do you smell good?

Do You Smell Good? You might be thinking that the title of this blog is a rather personal question and of course you are absolutely right. But, I’m no talking about how your body smells, what I actually mean is do you smell aromas and scents that will benefit the way...

Back To School… FINALLY!

Back to School… FINALLY! Here at Inspired to Change our Childhood Specialist, Kathryn Johannes takes a look at how we can help our children transition back to school after lockdown. “It certainly feels like an eternity since the children were last in school...

Lifting the Lockdown Blues

Lifting the Lockdown Blues Hands up who is struggling to get back into the swing of things as lock down measures start to ease? Have you been enjoying elements of lockdown and are now dreading going back to “normal” life? Don’t worry – you are not alone! So many of...

Top Tips to Lift the Lockdown Blues

Top Tips to Lift the Lockdown Blues Are you struggling to get back into the swing of things as lockdown measures start to ease? Have you been enjoying elements of lockdown and are now dreading going back to “normal” life? Don’t worry – you are not alone! So many of...

Reflections of a Hypno-Pharmacist

Reflections of a Hypno-Pharmacist I already know that my pharmacy background makes me somewhat unique as a hypnotherapist; I bring my science knowledge to what can be thought of as a somewhat ‘ethereal’ therapy, and make it understandable, grounded in science, and...

How to Support Someone with Anxiety or Depression

How to Support Someone with Anxiety or Depression 1 in 4 of us will suffer with stress and anxiety in any given year, a scary fact when you look around your friends and family and wonder which one of them is the 1 in 4 if it’s not you! Here at Inspired to Change we...

Sleep – A How To Guide for the Tired

Sleep – A How To Guide for the Tired Sleep. Everybody, almost every living thing does it, though we might often moan that we don’t get enough of it. But what does it do? How does it work? Why does it go wrong? Why am I still so tired? Strangely enough, science...

Relax – It’s Good For You!

Relax – It’s Good For You! The 15th August is global relaxation day, a whole day dedicated to unwinding and putting the breaks on. Wow what a fantastic idea that sounds good! So, this got us thinking, what does relaxation mean? How often should we relax?...

Top Tips for Reducing Anxiety

Top Tips for Reducing Anxiety 1 in 6 of us will suffer with anxiety in any given year. Couple that with the fact that it takes people, on average 10 years to seek the help that they need, the potential for anxiety to take over someone’s life is huge. Here at Inspired...

Rheumatoid Arthritis – Can Hypnotherapy Help?

Rheumatoid Arthritis – Can Hypnotherapy Help? As a pharmacist and a hypnotherapist, I’m always looking for ways to combine the two elements of my training. Reducing or eliminating the need for prescription medication can also help people feel more in control of...

Life After Cancer?

Life After Cancer? The Story of an Over Achieving, A-star student, Workaholic My name is Rebecca Allen and today I turn 41, an age I wasn’t convinced I would reach when I received my cancer diagnosis a few years ago. This is my story… From an early age I was always a...

Body Image and the Older Woman

Body Image and the Older Woman It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s focus is all about body image – how we think and feel about our bodies and how that impacts our mental wellbeing. Last year the Mental Health Foundation found that 30% of all...

Health and Performance over Aesthetics

Health and Performance Over Aesthetics It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s focus is all about body image – how we think and feel about our bodies and how that impacts our mental wellbeing. Last year the Mental Health Foundation found that 30% of all...

How mindful & intuitive eating can impact our wellbeing and reduce stress

How Mindful & Intuitive Eating Can Impact our Wellbeing and Reduce Stress It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s focus is all about body image – how we think and feel about our bodies and how that impacts our mental wellbeing. Last year the Mental...

Body Image – Isn’t it Time You Took Back Control of Your Body?

Isn’t it Time You Took Back Control of Your Body? It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s focus is all about body image – how we think and feel about our bodies and how that impacts our mental wellbeing. Last year the Mental Health Foundation found...

Top Tips for Exam Revision

Top Tips for Exam Revision It’s that time of year once again when many people are studying for their school or university exams. It can be a very stressful time because often so much rides on the exam results. So how can you focus and concentrate on studying when all...

Me and My Dyspraxic Brain

Me and My Dyspraxic Brain It’s Brain Awareness Week so I wanted to talk to you about my brain which is probably a bit different to your’s, unless you are another one of the 20% or so of the population that has dyspraxia. Dys-whats-xia?!?! Don’t worry, that’s the...

Addiction – A Different Perspecitve

Addiction – A Different Perspective You could be forgiven for thinking that everyone who’s even mildly famous these days seems to have developed an addiction to something. Alcohol, recreational drugs, legal highs, prescription painkillers, gambling, sex,...

Happiness vs Success – Can We Have Both?

Happiness vs Success – Can We Have Both? It seems to me that there is a constant striving for this wonderful thing called happiness. From an early age we are taught that hard work leads to success and success leads to money and money leads to happiness – ...

The Suicide Epidemic

The Suicide Epidemic Project 84 The installation last year on top of two ITV buildings in central London (of 84 mannequins to represent the average of 84 men who take their own lives each week in the UK) attracted a huge amount of media attention. The idea...

Happy Parents, Happy Children?

Happy Parents, Happy Children? Is Putting Yourself First When Looking After Children Selfish? Are your child’s reactions seemingly exaggerated or are they triggered by minor knocks that previously they might have let wash over them? Are you at a loss over how to...

Feeling stuck in a Rut?

Feeling stuck in a rut? How to get yourself back on track before the New Year! Why do we do it? Why do we keep doing the same things and yet expect a different outcome? It doesn’t make sense does it? ‘Nothing changes if nothing changes’. It is as simple as that. If we...

Top Tips for Self Care

Top Tips for Self Care It’s human nature to care for others, to want to do the best we can for those around us. But often, in our drive to help others we forget to look after ourselves. Trust me – I’m a therapist, it’s a hazard of the trade! That’s one of the...

The World Cup – a fans perspective…

The World Cup, a fan’s perspective… ‘We are England’, now we have said that for years and sometimes even meant it, but quickly realised we were being over-optimistic. But this time it’s different, we say it, we mean it, we believe it… Regardless of...

Three things the England Football team should be doing to prepare for their semi-final against Croatia

Three things the England Football team should be doing to prepare for their semi-final against Croatia Who’d have thought it – England just a step away from playing in the finals of the world cup. It is 28 years since England last played in a world cup semi-finals...

Leaving the Armed Forces Doesn’t Have to be a Battle

Leaving the Armed Forces Doesn’t Have to be a Battle June 29th is Armed Forces Day. As a veteran myself I love the fact that we can openly celebrate the service of the men and women who chose to join up and do their bit. As a therapist and mental health expert I...

How Music Affects Your Brain

How Music Affects Your Brain June 21st is World Music Day! Music can be difficult thing to define because there are so many ways to describe and interpret exactly what it means. When I was at school I was taught that music is ‘an organised sound intended to be...

Surviving Cancer – Controlling the Uncontrollable

Surviving Cancer – Controlling the uncontrollable Today is Sunday 3rd June 2018, which is National Cancer Survivors’ Day. Today is Sunday 3rd June 2018, which is my 40th birthday; a day I would not have ever seen if I was not a Cancer Survivor myself....

Variety Is The Spice Of Life

Variety Is The Spice Of Life! I love this saying – it always fills me with a feeling of excitement! It is said to emphasize that doing many different things, or often changing what you do, makes life interesting. And it does! But to me, as a hypnotherapist is means...

Can Hypnotherapy Reduce Anxiety?

Can Hypnotherapy Reduce Anxiety? Here at Inspired to Change Hypnotherapy we help many people reduce their anxiety levels and move forward with their lives. With 1 in 6 of us suffering from anxiety it’s refreshing to find there is a solution that doesn’t...

Hypnotherapy vs Hypertension

Hypnotherapy vs Hypertension May 17th is “World Hypertension Day”. Did you know that, according to ISH, the International Society for Hypertension, Hypertension – or high blood pressure – is the number one contributing factor for global death, implicated...

Dementia and Hypnotherapy

Dementia and Hypnotherapy Dementia Action Week is all about focusing on what we can do to improve the lives of people affected by dementia. Here at Inspired to Change we are interested in discovering whether hypnotherapy could be part of a care package that makes a...

Are You Surviving or Thriving?

Are You Surviving or Thriving? A recent report by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) showed that we are a nation teetering on the edge of a mental health disaster. The report found that just 13% of people report living with high levels of good mental health. Just...

Gardening vs Stress

Gardening vs Stress With recent bursts of sunshine and warm weather, the outdoors has truly come alive with the sprays of blossom and spring bulbs all around us. And whilst many of us are busy planning what to do with our gardens this year there are also many...

The Power of Placebo

The Power of Placebo With no less than three Inspired To Change Hypnotherapists working in Kent, we like to hang out together once in a while. It’s all part of our philosophy of working as a team despite each of us running our own individual practices,...

7 Reasons a Cup of Tea is Good for Your Mental Health

7 Reasons a Cup of Tea is Good for Your Mental Health It is National tea day on 21st April – a day where all things tea is celebrated. There is even a festival devoted to it called Fes-TEA-val and in the UK, we are the 5th biggest consumer of tea in the world,...

Wear a Flower to Work Day – is it more than just a bit of fun?

Wear a Flower to Work Day – is it more than just a bit of fun? At Inspired to Change we love flowers so April 20th is a special day for us as it’s Wear a Flower to Work Day! The idea behind this fun campaign is to wear your favourite flower to work in...

Top Tips for Feeling Happy!

Top Tips for Feeling Happy! We all crave that wonderful feel good factor in our lives but just what is it and how can we get more of it? That wonderful happy feeling we are after is the release of feel good hormones, like serotonin. It is actually these chemicals that...

Celebrating the female contribution to Neuroscience

Celebrating the Female Contribution to Neuroscience March sees us celebrating International Women’s Day and Brain Awareness Week, the perfect opportunity to recognise, and most importantly thank, one of the best Neuroscientists of our time, Marian Diamond. She was...

Top Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep

Top Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep With 1 in 3 of us not getting a good night’s sleep there is plenty of room for improvement! The good news is that the rewards are well worth it! Getting a good night’s sleep boosts your immune system, improves your cognitive functions...

Why is Sleep so Important?

Why is Sleep so Important? 1 in 3 of us don’t get enough sleep. So what? We all have busy lives, surely we have more important things to do than sleep? Our never ending ‘to do’ lists at work and at home mean lots of pressure on our time. And sleep doesn’t get things...

The “What If” Demons

The “What If” Demons It was the week before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… or so I thought. But then a little demon came knocking. Yesterday I had to take a sick day – I was feeling so rotten...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – it’s not just about feeling tired!

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – it’s not just about feeling tired! When most people think of me they think of perhaps the colour purple – my favourite colour and my branding. They might think of cats (I’ve got 5 after all) as they normally come up somewhere...

Need a Kick-Start to Spring?

Need a Kick-Start to Spring? Winter is over and we are now beginning to see signs of Spring: Longer days, the odd day of glorious sunshine and beautiful primroses and daffodils popping up in the Devon hedgerows and gardens. This normally brightens the spirit....

Need a Kick-Start to Spring With Your Horses?

Need a Kick-Start to Spring With Your Horses? Winter is nearly over and we are now beginning to see signs of spring – longer days, the odd day of glorious sunshine and beautiful primroses and daffodils popping up in the Devon hedgerows and gardens. This...

Can Hypnotherapy Really Help IBS?

Can Hypnotherapy Really Help IBS? Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS as it’s generally referred to, is common. Very common. In my pharmacy practice, I must speak to someone at least once every day about diagnosis, how to manage their symptoms or about the current...

Exercise for Good Mental Health

Exercise for Good Mental Health If, like me, you exercise regularly, you probably do it because it makes you feel good, and maybe because it makes you look good, too. If you just did it because you ‘had’ to, and didn’t enjoy it, it’s unlikely to become a regular part...

A Lesson In Indian

The Indian Golden Triangle Challenge What I learned, what were the highlights and how did I do? So many things to say and so much to explain. There were so many highlights that I can’t pick one but I will try and trim the number down in order not to bore you all!...

Top Tips to Learn to Love Yourself

Top Tips to Learn to Love Yourself Shocking statistics show a level of chronic low self-esteem in men, women and children. What can we do to help ourselves learn to love ourselves again? Here at Inspired to Change we’ve pulled together some of our favourite Top Tips....

Learn to Love Yourself

Learn to Love Yourself It’s February and our thoughts turn to Valentine’s Day and the important relationships we have with others. I think it’s fantastic that we have a day dedicated to celebrating our most special of relationships. But I also think we are missing...

Hypnotherapy for Children – Can It Really Help?

Hypnotherapy for Children – Can It Really Help? I have worked with young children for almost 11 years now and in that time I have seen a huge change in practice with regards to their mental health. Health visitors and other professionals are now advised to look...

Building a True Connection With Your Horse

Building a true connection with your horse Over the last few years I have reconnected with my ‘special’ horse in a way I didn’t think possible and I put this down to the fact that I am a practicing clinical hypnotherapist. In each session with a client there is...

The Death of the Man – ‘Long Live The REAL Man’

It’s 13 days before I take on the challenge of a life time for some it might not be that much of a challenge but for me it going to be a real tough challenge. The cause of me doing such a stupid thing as cycling 500k in 25C heat and hotter across Rajasthan is that I...

‘Don’t Talk About it, Its a Man issue’

I’ve been banging on about the challenge I’m doing in India, which is in just 14 days, the one I’m doing on a push bike and taking a stuffed polar bear with me. But why should anyone take notice, there loads of people doing great things for their chosen great causes,...

Life Lessons from Winnie the Pooh

Life Lessons from Winnie The Pooh Until a couple of weeks ago I was not even aware that there was such a thing as Winnie The Pooh day, which is held on the birthday of Pooh’s author A. A. Milne. Even as a life-long Pooh bear fan, having loved the books since I was...

3 weeks to go!

With just 24 days before I leave for the Challenge of a lifetime I’m doing OK but need to just get the last few miles in on my training and the last few pounds off my belly. Despite some minor bike repairs needed that has slowed my training a little, a bakers’ cyst on...

How I Re-wired My Brain

How I re-wired My Brain In our last blog we talked about how we can re-wire our brain to help us to achieve our goals. Which sounds great in theory but how on earth do we go about doing it? I often hear my clients talking themselves into ways of being. ...

Can You Really Re-wire Your Brain?

Can You Really Re-Wire Your Brain? Did you know that our brains are constantly re-wiring themselves, changing and developing every single day? So every day is an opportunity to create a ‘new you’, or at least make some improvements on the current version!...

I Can’t Bear Being Without A Name

It’s Competition Time!!! Inspired To Change founder Gary Johannes is attempting a 500 kilometre bike around the golden triangle in India in aid of C.A.L.M. is just 4 weeks away and we need your help. Gary has been given a polar bear mascot to take with...

Top Tips for Positive Brain Time Travelling

Top Tips for Positive Brain Time Travelling Time Travelling isn’t all about Michael J Fox and DeLorean’s! Did you know our Brain time travels all the time if we let it? Our brain doesn’t know the difference between imagination and reality and that can...

The Art of Positive Reflection

The Art of Positive Reflection It’s December and the end of the year is fast approaching. It’s often a time to reflect back on the year past and to look ahead to the following year. Both of these activities are really good things to do but we can get it wrong! We can...

Inspired to Change – The Happiest Team in the UK!

Inspired to Change – The Happiest Team in the UK! Here at Inspired to Change we are super happy! We have just won a National Happiness Award! But, that’s not all. We have won the award for being the Happiest Team in the UK and there are two reasons why that’s...

Finding the Solution to Achieving My Goals

Finding the Solution to Achieving My Goals At Inspired to Change we regularly chat together about our blogs and newsletters and what information our clients would find useful to hear about – Neuroscience is fascinating and there is always so much new information...

Is There a Secret to Success?

Is There a Secret to Success? At Inspired to Change we are ending this month on a high! We have just been chosen out of hundreds of applicants as finalists for the award of Happiest Team in the UK, and we couldn’t be prouder! But we didn’t achieve this success by...

Top Tips for Achieving Your Goals

Top Tips for Achieving Your Goals Nobody ever achieves success by chance! This is why so many people fail their New Year’s Resolutions. Did you know that when you set a New Year’s Resolution you only have an 8% chance of succeeding? That’s pretty poor isn’t it? So...

Top Tips for Reducing Work Stress

Top Tips for Reducing Work Stress Work can be stressful, but that doesn’t mean we have to be stressed. Here at Inspired to Change we’ve pulled together our Top Tips to help you reduce work-related stress and start taking back some control. Tip 1 – Put yourself...

Taking Back Control from Work Related Stress

Taking Back Control from Work Related Stress “I can’t put it off any longer. I’ve had that nagging thought in the back of my mind urging me to check my work emails all Sunday afternoon. It’s become a Sunday evening ritual in recent months, a way to help me feel more...

Is Work Making You Stressed?

Is Work Making You Stressed? Last year in the UK 11.7 million working days were lost to stress-related issues with a huge impact on businesses in terms of revenue, efficiency and staff retention. That means that 45% of all working days lost due to ill health were down...

Start the New School Year in a Positive Way with Hypnotherapy

Start the New School Year in a Positive Way with Hypnotherapy Starting a new school year can be daunting for students, parents and teachers. Will I get on with new people in my class? Did I pick the right options for subject choices? Will I be OK beginning a new...

Overcoming Anxiety Using Hypnotherapy

Overcoming Anxiety Using Hypnotherapy Heading back to school doesn’t just affect younger children – teenagers and university students suffer just as much anxiety. Anxiety that started at a younger age can often carry through into our adult lives...

Top Tips for Heading Back to School

Top Tips for Heading Back to School Change can be good, but it’s not always easy. So what can we do to help our children to switch from the laid-back fun of the summer holidays to rules, homework and routines? Check out our top tips below: Tip 1 – Focus on the...

Back to School – No Worries!

Back to School – No Worries! New uniform bought, stationery and books packed, holiday projects complete…September can only mean one thing – back to school! It’s a stressful time for any parent, regardless of whether your child is going to nursery, primary...

The Art of Taking a Break

The Art of Taking a Break Here at Inspired to Change we are pretty busy people! Running a successful hypnotherapy practice takes a lot of hard work on top of our hours seeing clients. And we have to fit all of that into busy family lives too. So how do we ensure we...

The Science of Taking a Break

The Science of Taking a Break Rest is as important an activity as everything else we ‘do’, if we want to get the best out of life. We have all heard the statement “work hard, play hard”. Now, that’s all fine and dandy but like you I expect, my work days are most often...

Top Tips for Taking a Brain Break

Top Tips for Taking a Brain Break In our busy lives it’s hard to find the time to take the breaks we need to restore our minds and our bodies, but if we want to function at our best it’s time we put some real value on break time. At Inspired to Change we’ve pulled...

Take a break – your brain will thank you for it!

Take a break – your brain will thank you for it! I take a look at my “to-do list” and realise it’s blog writing day. I love writing, I always have but today I’m not sure what to write about. I spend 5 minutes looking at past blogs but when nothing springs to mind I...

Nerves affecting your ability to enjoy competing with your horse?

Nerves affecting your ability to enjoy competing with your horse? Do you feel that you and your horse could be achieving more if your nerves were in check? How many times have you driven to a venue with your stomach churning and negative thoughts whirling around your...

Top Tips to Unlocking Your Brain’s Potential

One of the great things about training to become a hypnotherapist is learning about how our brains work. But we don’t want to keep this information to ourselves! At Inspired to Change we teach our clients all about how they can get the best out of their brain...

Stepping Up Your Mind-Set

Stepping Up Your Mind-Set We often talk about the remedial, curative effect of hypnotherapy and how it transforms the lives of our clients from being a painful struggle to feeling in control and back on track. But what if your life is already on track? Surely you...

Unlocking Your Brain’s Potential – the Power of Hypnotherapy

Unlocking Your Brain’s Potential Did you know that we use less than 10% of the full capacity of our brain on a day to day basis? That’s like driving around all day in first gear…in a Ferrari! What a waste! Just imagine how much more focused, productive and...

On Teachers, Burnout and Resilience – Can Hypnotherapy Help Teachers?

On Teachers, Burnout and Resilience – Can Hypnotherapy Help Teachers? Can we all just agree that being a teacher is tough these days. Not only do you have to come up with inclusive, creative, multi-level teaching plans, there’s marking, assessing every half...

Hypnotherapy – It Works for Men Too!

Hypnotherapy – It Works for Men Too! Many people are surprised at how many male clients we see at Inspired to Change. Despite the terrible statistics showing us that 76% of all suicides are men there are plenty of men out there looking for ways to look after their...

Top Tips for Men to Look After Their Mental Health

Top Tips for Men to Look After Their Mental Health If we’re going to change the terrible statistics about suicide rates in men we need to start doing something differently. We all need to start looking after our mental health just like we do our physical health...

It’s Good to Talk – Even if You Are a Man!

It’s Good to Talk – Even if You Are a Man! Did you know that the biggest killer of men under the age of 45 is suicide? Not cancer or road traffic accidents or any physical illness. No, suicide. I know, shocking isn’t it? And did you know that 76% of all suicides are...

It’s a test of strength of body and mind!

It’s a test of strength of body and mind! I did a similar silly thing 7 years ago: I volunteered to cycle up some mountains in Vietnam (they told me it was mostly flat!) for the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Unit. This Vietnam challenge was worse in some ways and...

Why India

Why India? My India Golden Triangle cycle challenge for CALM Well, it was a bit of a coincidence to start with. I wanted to do a challenge as I wanted to get fit and at the same time really wanted to give something back within the mental health arena....