Things I didn’t know about love

Things I didn’t know about love

Things I Didn’t Know About Love One of the things I love about reading is that it helps me discover things I didn’t know about love and also to understand myself better. Sometimes I discover why something I do in my relationship with Dave actually works....
What stops us from being happy

What stops us from being happy

How Can I Be Happy? When a client first comes to me they ask me, “How can I be happy?” Most of them want to resolve some relationship issue, usually but not always with their partner. The reason I love working with relationship issues is that I often...
Why taking risks is the key to a happy life

Why taking risks is the key to a happy life

First, a caveat: When I say that risks are worth taking, I mean considered risks, not rash or impulsive ones. To me, the riskier and scarier ones are emotional risks. Those are the ones that make us break out in a cold sweat just thinking of it. The thing that marks...
What if I knew then what I know now?

What if I knew then what I know now?

A while back I was interviewed by The Telegraph for their new weekly section in The Telegraph Magazine called ‘Change of Life’. The interview was for a first-person feature about somebody who had experienced a significant life change in later years.  Leaving my...
Should I tell the truth? Yes? No? Maybe?

Should I tell the truth? Yes? No? Maybe?

Telling the truth has a bad press and most of us spend a lot of time agonizing about whether or not to tell someone the truth as we see it. The fact is that there’s only person we need to tell the truth to: ourselves. You may find this hard to believe but, actually,...