You may have read about my son Luke in previous articles. He has a number of disabilities of varying severity and suffers from epilepsy, a condition that affects the brain and causes repeated seizures. His life is at risk every time he has an epileptic fit and this can be quite a frightening experience, both…
Who knew that someone dressed up in a gorilla outfit, playing the drums to Phil Collins’ song ‘In the Air Tonight’ would be connected to………. ……Cadbury’s Chocolate. At face value this statement may only make sense in the UK (click the link here to watch the original advertisement). It appeared on TV back in 2007…
Thank you for signing up for the Emotional Intelligence mini course You will start to receive an email each day for four days. We will cover different topics each day. If you have any questions please let me know. A little back ground on EI: Gary Hart a presidential candidate was driven , intelligent and…
“There is no such thing as a resistant client. There is only a lack of rapport,” I said. As I stood in front of the Drug Action team, one man appeared unconvinced. He said, “I work with young offenders. One young man comes to his meeting each week. He pulls his baseball cap over his…
It was the Christmas period when I set myself 3 major goals for the New Year ahead. One goal was particularly important to me as it directly challenged my writing skills. When you are dyslexic, which I am lucky to be, writing does not come easily. Nonetheless, I set myself the ambitious goal of writing…
“I can’t believe that!” said Alice. Can’t you?” said the Queen in a pitying tone. “Try again, draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.” Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said, “one can’t believe impossible things.” I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always…
Asked to design the kitchen for a great banquet Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519) set about a master plan. What was meant to be a kitchen that ran like clockwork actually turned out to be a complete mess. The great ox, whose job it was to walk around in circles and drive the pumps…
The doctor said “He won’t see the night out”. This was within earshot of the young Milton Erickson (American psychiatrist and psychologist, 1901 – 1980) who was lying paralysed in bed riddled with polio fever. Hearing his mother weep the teenager vowed there and then in anger that he would survive the night and prove…
When I was in my teens, I decided to buy and wear a pair of white trousers – as decisions go that wasn’t too bad. However, I also wore red underpants with those same white trousers, don’t ask me why! To this day I can still hear the laughter that followed me throughout what seemed to…