How is your week going so far? If things have been less than brilliant, don’t worry – that’s what this email is for! Each week I try to bring you a simple thing you can do to try and bring some mental sunshine into your life. This week’s suggestion is to aim for 10,000 steps […]

This week’s email may well strike fear into your heart – but I promise once you do it, you are likely to feel brilliant. This week I want you to experiment with… switching off your phone! Remember the olden days, when you got up from your desk at school or work, and left it all

Welcome to my 52nd consecutive weekly dose of mental sunshine email. Yes a whole year has passed since I started to write these weekly emails to spread a little positivity with some simple wellness tips. You can see the whole archive here… So, this week’s mental sunshine tip is something you might find a little

Happy Thursday! This week’s mental sunshine is about random acts of kindness. I challenge you, between now and next week’s email, to perform a random act of kindness, and see if it doesn’t make you feel good. Double kindness points if your random act is for a stranger. It could be something as simple as

How successful are you feeling today? This week’s dose of mental sunshine is about wishing success for all. I heard a quote attributed to Tiger Woods, where he said that when he watches others playing golf – even when they are competing against him – he always wills the ball goes in the hole –

This week’s mental sunshine is all about helping others. I know what you’re thinking – this is supposed to be an email about helping yourself to feel good, right? So why am I telling you to help someone else? The thing about helping others – whether holding a door open for someone or volunteering in

Welcome to another weekly dose of Mental Sunshine How is your week going so far? Have you managed to maintain an air of zen calmness… or have you found yourself getting a bit hot under the collar? We all get stressed sometimes, and we can all end up saying or doing things in the heat

This week’s Mental Sunshine is something that has really helped me. Especially over the last 2 years with the Covid pandemic and now the disturbing events going on in Ukraine. Stop watching, listening & reading the news… I know, your first reaction to this might be “but I need to know what’s going on!” or

Do you like your own company? We’ve just had two years where many of us have been alone for large periods of time – so today I thought we could talk about solitude. I think these days we tend to equate being alone with being lonely – but there is another word that could be

How has your week been so far? If your answer is something like “not too great…” this week’s suggestion is the one for you! This is so simple, but can really help to turn your mood around. This week we’re talking about the power of YET. Basically, any time you find yourself thinking or saying