The window of tolerance after Cyclone Gabrielle is shifting. Here’s what it means for response and recovery. In Dan Siegel’s book, The Developing Mind, he describes how everyone has a range of intensities of emotional experience that they can comfortably experience, process and integrate. This is the ‘window of tolerance’, and it varies widely. For […]
My heart goes out to those all over NZ coming to terms with flooding events recently. Just heart-wrenching. Even with my 35+ years of experience, even I wonder what is to be done. This interview I did with RNZ last Friday might help orient you I’ve also been thinking about the experience of Canterbury and […]
“I think you’ve been really unlucky” My physio, Seth, shrugged. It was mid-decemnber, and I’d gone to the clinic because I had done something to my calf. A day later, by back had also seized up. Turns out I had injured a calf muscle – my left soleus. “You’re soleus starts to get loaded more […]
With my focus on building my Substack and other life things, I’ve neglected my blog a little. I hope to remedy that in 2023. In the meantime, please let me wish you all the best for Christmas and the holiday season, and a very happy new year.
There is a new pathway for about 3000 counsellors to be accredited to work in publicly funded mental health and addiction roles. Until now, counsellors haven’t been able to work in publicly funded clinical roles, because it’s a self-regulated profession in New Zealand. A new accreditation pathway has addressed this concern. This has raised hopes […]
I was very pleased to feature in the Autumn AA Directions magazine cover article, Finding the Good, How to thrive in the new normal. Go check it out here!
I was interviewed on the ‘Books that Work’ podcast about my book, Finding Calm, which they’ve summarised into a handy infographic you can use. Listen in here.
My heart has beaten almost 2 billion times. I have burned 1378 candles on all my birthday cakes. I have travelled around the sun 53 times – that’s about 50 billion kilometres. The moon has circled around me 706 times. I’ve been on the internet for over 31 years. And today, I am 19,301 days old […]
It’s been two years and three months since I started working to support people through the pandemic. Through this I helped to set up the pillars of the United against Covid-19 campaign, consulted to three Government Departments and many other public and private organisations, delivered so many webinar sessions I’ve lost count, written many Twitter […]
Now the parliament protest is over, New Zealand must ask itself what lay behind it, have a read of what I think about the protest and my article here.