Your answer reveals more about your thinking than you realise! Read on to find out more…

In 2019, I put the ‘thriving’ skills I teach to the test, to show that anything is possible, whilst raising money for charity.

We all think that we know what an ideal body is. But I want to emphasise just how much of it is a) ever-changing and evolving, and b) socially constructed rather than ‘real’. These days, fat shaming is still pretty common, and people who are larger are deemed to be ‘unattractive’ and many other horrible words that I won’t bother repeating. But go back to the days of Henry VIII and it was actually FASHIONABLE to be large, almost obese

If somebody can't manage their feelings and emotions well, they tend to over-manage the situation/their environment instead. It’s control in its most primitive form, because it’s wanting/needing to take control to get away from an intolerable feeling and escape to something better, rather than tolerating and coping with it instead.

For many people, particularly people like me who had been stuck in a rut for a while and honestly didn’t have even a shred of self-belief that I could make it out myself, enlisting the help of a Thrive Programme Coach can be key in getting the absolute maximum out of the programme

In a nutshell, a perfectionist is somebody who feels unable to tolerate anything less than perfection in themselves, their own lives and their achievements. It’s not simply a person who works hard and achieves things - even though that is often the case for a perfectionist as they do work incredibly hard, mostly to try and actually BE the perfect person they want the world to see them as.

It’s always struck me as slightly odd that in an entire year, a year with 12 new months and 52 new Mondays and 365 new mornings, we only ever set resolutions in January

Interviews: It’s not just what you say. It’s also the way you say it. And rest assured that in an interview situation, employers are listening intently to both.

Whenever I ask clients what they think about their own bodies, they normally reel off a whole load of their imperfections, the thing that aren’t as good as their friends’, that aren’t small/toned/tanned/pretty enough etc.

Health anxiety is an ongoing state of worry, stress, and panic over your own health and sometimes others’ too. From small moles, sore throats and slight coughs, to cancer, infectious diseases and even death, sufferers are seemingly plagued by recurring anxious thoughts about health and illness.

How in control we feel of our lives – not just in terms of being able to control what’s happening IN them, but being able to control our reactions and emotions when things DON’T go to plan, is hugely important to our wellbeing. It’s probably one of the most important things really. And during an unexpected global pandemic, huge and very sudden adjustments are having to be made.

How we create anger, and how to challenge resentful thoughts before they are converted into full-on rage