5 Tips to Overcome Being Miserable

My husband as a director has won many awards including a British Academy Award and a few years ago he won a BBC Grierson award for the ‘Most Entertaining Documentary’, on a film that he did on depression called ‘Bye Bye Happiness’. (His competitors were programs like Hells Kitchen and The Apprentice.) Read more…

Positive Aspects of Aging

There is a moment in all of our lives when the feeling that we are getting older hits us for the first time. It might be when you reach a significant age, when you have a child and move to a new generation or, when you catch yourself in the mirror and see those first lines appear on your face. But there are also many advantages to those feelings of getting older that often go unnoticed. So here are 5 positive aspects of aging that hopefully you can adopt.

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Reasons to Express Your Emotions

It is so easy to carry around unexpressed emotions, especially if you grew up in a family who used impregnated silences in a passive aggressive way to say or, rather, to not say, that you are mad with each other. Non-communication is the biggest cause of upset. Relationships break up over of it and wars start because of it. However, if you can learn to communicate in a balanced way, two individuals, in their right minds, can always come to an agreement. Here are some reasons why you want to let it all out immediately, regardless of what you’ve been used to.

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How To Be A Beginner Again

It is never too late to start something new, whether you’re 75 and want to take up the piano, 55 and are beginning a new profession or 27 and think that you should know it all by now. Being a beginner takes enormous courage, as so often it leaves you vulnerable. But we all could do with having the guts to be a novice in at least one endeavor, as that means that we are constantly expanding our minds and becoming a more multifaceted person.

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Live Your Life Without Regrets

I don’t know why, but ever since I was young I was always concerned that in my old age I would have regrets and, as a result of this fear I don’t like to waste time at all. It may be that this fear is not the healthiest driver, but it has been positive in so many ways, as it has motivated me to love exceptionally, have many adventures, take risks and appreciate so much, so much of the time. So here are my personal five tips on how to live without regrets.

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Fears Of Getting Pregnant Dispelled

Making the decision to have a baby is not an easy one and one that is not to be taken lightly. Caring for a new soul takes a lot of delicate handling and many of us wonder if we will ever be ready for it. My philosophy was always that when my husband and I had created an exceptionally stable backbone as a couple, we would then be ready to bring a new soul in to the world.

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First Time Dads

Some of you might have noticed that I disappeared off the Huffington Post for three months and that is because I just had a baby, who is now three months old. So with Father’s day coming up, I wanted to give a few tips on how to be a good ‘first time’ Dad. However, even if you are not a new Dad you might find that there are one or two tips that you can take home too.

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Deal With Life's Obstacles

A large part of the human experience is dealing with life’s obstacles. It is not about not having them, because that is impossible, the true test is how you deal with them. The question is, do you become a victim to your circumstances or do you rise to the challenge and over time find ways to deal with these challenges in a positive manner?

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Is Ignorance Really Bliss?

There is a difference in not knowing about something because you are genuinely uninterested and not knowing because you are scared to know. We all have areas in our life where we like to have our head in the sand for fear of knowing too much. But surely there are some things that it is better to know about than not and that knowledge becomes power. Today, I have chosen five areas where it seems that having knowledge outweighs the benefits of being ignorant.

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Serve Your Country

Obama has the rare opportunity as a President to make a huge difference to his country and to the world and even though the task is daunting, he is also very lucky to be given this gift. However, you don’t need to be President to make a difference. It is a matter of recognizing how you already serve in your own life and how with very little effort you can serve more. Remember as well, that when you make a difference to one person’s life it invariably reverberates out to the people that they come in to contact with. So you might actually be underestimating what a difference you already make and how many people are affected by your positive actions.

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