It is a funny thing, to trust. Really trust. Trust is, or at least should be earned. It is at the core of all our higher order emotions and motives. Trust takes a long time to build. Not surface trust, like that in a shelter or a well-made car. No, I mean real trust, in …
The term Mental Health is a well-used phrase these days. Thankfully the cliched stoic, Australian common in the writings of Lawson and Patterson and in the deeply related image of the Bronzed Aussie appears to be going the way of the Dodo. Most of the people I know are beautiful in their fallibility even if …
I read an incredible book on Depression recently titled The Noonday Demon-An anatomy of Depression by Andrew Solomon. The highly intelligent author also gives several moving TED talks on the subject. In one of them, he uses the phrase ‘Depression-The secret we all share’. It is a phrase that was more accurate than I realised …
Moments of joy, even bliss arrive slowly, subtly. Like a sunrise, they build over time. Then like the morning sun, there they are, warming your toes through a glass door. Those feelings never seem to arrive at the watershed moments of life. Rarely have I felt deep, chest filling peace during a celebration or underneath …
