Often the seed of a blog is planted months earlier, and then has to mature until it is ready to sprout. But sometimes, we keep the soil very hard and dry, preventing the seed from pushing the fresh shoot above the soil – we are not granting the story permission to be told

Early during 2016 I read the book “The happiness project” (Rubin, 2009) in which the author went in active pursuit of happiness.

What a blessed couple of weeks! Although having loads of the usual pressures, our dream to launch Goldilocks and The Bear Foundation became a reality.

Not a day in my practice goes by without a patient complaining about their weight gain. So often the antidepressants are blamed.

Not a day in my practice goes by where parents do not raise their concern about their child’s poor self-esteem, a mother complains of her feelings of worthlessness, or a top-student or highly successful businessman confesses his or her insecurities.

“The medication doesn’t work anymore,” is a sentence I often hear. But why would your medication stop working? Is it even possible?

In today’s rushed life if you’re not mindful of the fast pace of life and the pressure you encounter on a daily basis, you will most likely end up in the wilderness of burnout: a place of emotional exhaustion, disengagement, and decreased performance.

One of the most goose-bump moments in my practice was when a mom told me during a follow-up consultation that she heard her little girl laugh again. Only then did she realise how long the house had been silent.