Before you set off on a walk, however serpentine you imagine it becoming, a mind’s-eye thread winds off before you into the distance. You see hazy, fragmented images of the route and the end point. That end point might be back home, or back at the office: a circular walk. It might be a tea […]

When it comes to stress, the negative impacts aren’t only mental – they can be physical, too. Take burnout, for example. Mental Health UK notes that its symptoms include not only emotional things like feeling helpless or behavioural ones like difficulty concentrating, but physical problems such as headaches, fatigue, gastrointestinal issues, and lowered immunity. The […]

What does ‘woke’ mean to you? Fixation on a disproportionately narrow range of concerns? Or conscious commitment to compassion? While the term’s meaning is much debated, that is has been weaponised is not in question. This is the aspect I’m concerned with in this piece. Why? Because one of the main reasons the debate ruffles […]