Is health optimisation taking over your life?

Is health optimisation taking over your life?

We know that looking after our mental and physical health is important, but can we take this too far? Recently there’s been a growing focus on health optimisation anxiety, where we worry excessively if we are doing the right things, in the right order, to maximise our...
How to stop self-sabotaging happiness

How to stop self-sabotaging happiness

Happiness is weird. As an opening gambit this maybe falls short in profundity, but bear with me. As a therapist I do a lot of work with ‘uncomfortable’ emotions (the whole thing about there being no ‘bad’ emotions probably merits a separate blog in itself).  So...