IF LIFE IS A (PLANE) JOURNEY, THEN …. I often refer to my life as a journey and forget that there have been and are so many people on this journey with me. …

SELF-COMPASSION* Rabbi Hillel said: If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If not now, when? Indeed, if you are not kind to yourself, then where and when is your life journey going? Too often we are better friends to others than ourselves. That is where…

RESTORYING MY STORY Our past is a marvelous collection of experiences and serendipitous coincidences. However, within this collage of my life there are those silly, foolish and embarrassing moments when things went rather badly and seem to crowd out too much of my joy. There are times in my past…

WORRY OR WONDER? Covid has, unfortunately, increased our worrying ability and potential. The daily health warnings have become part of our news diet. What shouldn’t we do today? What new risk is out there? Health anxiety is the new normal for so many. …

KINDNESS What do you imagine to be the most important quality that women and men seek in a sustained relationship? David Buss tested over 10,000 people from 37 different cultures and concluded that consistently the most important attribute was kindness.* Whereas this conclusion may not be surprising, it certainly is…

WHAT IS IN YOUR CUP? Previous reflections have considered if your cup is half full or half empty, but we overlooked thinking about the contents of your cup. So, what might your cup contain? Is it full of joy, disappointments, hope or sadness ?? When I imagine my cup’s contents…

The psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote in his book “Man’s Search For Meaning”, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.”* Frankl concluded that what mankind needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of oneself. …

Sometimes a word cannot be properly translated. One such word is the Hebrew word SHALOM. The nearest English translation is PEACE, but this falls far short of the richness of shalom. Shalom in Hebrew means peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, togetherness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity. * And that is all implied…

Being tolerant and inclusive is one of the hallmarks of wellbeing. Yet, I must admit that I often find it hard to understand and appreciate how others could hold such different views and opinions to myself. When I read in the news of events in Asia, Africa and South America…