It’s been a long haul, this Pandemic! The one we remember forever as taking over the world in what seemed like the blink of an eye early in the year 2020. We recently celebrated the arrival of 2021 somehow thinking, or perhaps vaguely hoping, that with the coming of the new year all the horrors of 2020 would be consigned to the past. Unfortunately, Coronavirus is still with us, along with all the issues it brings. There is also another Pandemic that is travelling the world...

It’s an odd thing really, that if you have a physical ailment the obvious thing to do to is go and seek help from a doctor, but when something doesn’t feel right emotionally it’s often harder to reach out for support. Maybe it’s the belief that it would be somehow ‘weak’ to do so, or a concern about what others might think, almost as if we should be ashamed if we are unhappy? For this reason, although people refer to ‘mental health issues’, that term...

 I don’t know about you, but sometimes I wake up and life just feels like it’s going to suck that day. Usually I can relate it to something concrete, such as a challenge I may have at work, or I have a million crappy chores to do, or I have a bill to pay that feels a waste of my income when I’d rather spend it on something more fruitful, like...