About Pat

Is it one ‘l’ or two? So, I have been enjoying Lori Gottlieb’s ‘Maybe you Should Talk to Someone’ – a lot! So not a textbook, and I’m...

Wow! Long time no blog! So, I have been up to a lot, and yes living a life I like, which is 2023's New Year's resolution ;-) has untold...

Long time, no blog update! Instead I have been writing about anxiety and ways of transforming out of being anxious. So here I am writing...

One thing I have learnt is that the only constant in life is change. This time last year I was still grieving my mum's passing. Little...

Life's a funny old thing when you're a bit of an explorer. In fact you can find yourself in the most weird and wonderful of places....

All change... Yes, Living First has broken free it reins. As from tomorrow I'll be setting up a platform on Facebook through which people...

To my mind development, growth, fulfilment and progress is a given ... it's how we're travelling that's important. The problem is that we...

Yes, my journeying into psychology continues and where better to begin than the word itself: psyche ology Ology means the study of and to...

... that you can't wait to dive into

Farewells are never forever, but tricky all the same. As to stuff, well there's a whole other world beyond dry old economics...

Letting go can be tough, and yet...

Yes, Australia beckons once more - for me and Living First therapies! Ever since we realised this shift in our lives, life has been a...

I've just been looking through the last few photos on my phone and realised, yes it is official: I love my life Give it a go... flicking...

I know, to me this would be a strange question to ask anyone. It's obvious, right! Everyone wants to be happy... or do they? It is a...

Becoming your different really isn't as easy as you might think. The key to unlocking your unique qualities in life is personal freedom -...

January is past and up here in the northern hemisphere the lighter days entice nature's sap to the surface. Yes, we have yet another year...

Something's missing... ... and it's not just me saying this. It's up there as one of the most common life problems. When there is that...

For me the new year marks a place in time for reflection, to have a bit of a dust off - out with the old and in with the new in readiness...

Business is closed, but the lines remain open. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas... Not a merry time for everyone. I don't 'do it' as such,...

Do you believe...? Actually, it's more than that isn't it... The phenomenality we call magic is alive and living inside, out and...