I was thinking recently about how difficult it has become to do absolutely nothing. And I mean nothing. Not watching television. Not listening to a podcast. Not scrolling through your phone while supposedly watching television. Not answering emails. Not mentally writing tomorrow's to-do list. Just sitting. Doing nothing. Even writing that feels slightly uncomfortable. Because somewhere along the way, doing nothing seems to have become something we're not very good at. We don'

Why Do I Shut Down When Things Get Too Much? Have you ever been in the middle of a difficult conversation and suddenly found that you have nothing to say? Not because you don't care. Not because you don't have thoughts or feelings about what's happening. In fact, quite often it's the opposite. There's too much happening. Your mind goes blank. You become quiet. Perhaps you need to leave the room. Someone asks what you're thinking and the only honest answer you can give is, “I

When Did Life Become Something We Had to Get Through? I wonder sometimes when life became so much about getting through things. Getting through Monday. Getting through the working week. Getting through the school run, the bills, the shopping, the washing, the appointments and everything else that somehow needs doing before we can finally sit down. Then we get to Friday and say, “Thank God for that.” Sunday comes around and, before it's even finished, we're thinking about Mond

When Did We Get So Good at Being Busy? When did doing nothing start to feel like something we should feel guilty about? I've been thinking about this recently. We seem to have become very good at filling every available space in our lives. If we're not working, we're answering messages. If we're sitting down, we're scrolling through our phones. If we have a free weekend, we start thinking about all the jobs we could get done. Even when we're supposedly relaxing, part of our m

I know how hard it can be for men to talk about their feelings. For years, we’ve been told to “man up” or “stay strong,” and it’s easy to end up carrying a lot on your own. But struggling doesn’t make you weak — it makes you human.

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