Your Weekly Dose of Mental Sunshine

We’ve reached the tail end of August; things are beginning to feel very autumnal! I’m looking forward to the cooler weather, the beautiful colours of nature in autumn – and that feeling of new beginnings that comes with all the schools and colleges returning. Even if you don’t have kids, it’s hard to miss that […]

With these weekly emails, I try to send you a little tip or idea you can use to bring a little more Mental Sunshine into your life… something to brighten your mood a bit. Today’s tip though – it might fall more under the heading of “removing mental clouds” How is your email inbox looking? […]

For this week’s Mental Sunshine, I want to talk about something that will help you to lay the foundation for plenty of Mental Sunshine in the future. Have you heard of the vagus nerve? It’s the longest cranial nerve in your body, and is the main pathway for your parasympathetic nervous system. The system that […]

This week’s email follows on from last week’s, which was about grief. The other side of this is that since everyone dies, and everyone experiences grief – we will all also go through a situation where someone we are close to has lost a loved one. It can feel really uncomfortable to see a friend […]

I want to look at things a little differently for this week. The other side of Mental Sunshine is when something sad has happened in our life – there’s a lack of Mental Sunshine for a reason. For example, when someone we love has died, our sadness will run a lot deeper than a normal […]

For this week’s Mental Sunshine I want to introduce an idea that I think is a great resource for improving your mood. It’s called a Joy List – but you can call it whatever you like. It can be a physical list, or a note on your phone. Or even just a mental list you […]

Each week with these emails I attempt to show you something small you can try that will hopefully bring you some Mental Sunshine. This week, I want to talk about the idea of always thinking the best. So grab those rose-tinted glasses, and let’s get going! I saw a video on social media recently, where […]

I’ve really been enjoying the sunshine and warm weather – and trying not to do that typical British thing of complaining, It’s too hot! This week’s Mental Sunshine is about exactly this – complaining! Moaning about the weather often seems to be the national pastime, doesn’t it! It’s too hot, or it’s too cold, or […]

In last week’s email we talked about saying NO more to the things that don’t bring Mental Sunshine into your life. Today, I want to suggest that you say YES more! I know you’re probably thinking this will contradict everything I said last week But what I mean here is that we should try saying […]

Each week I send out this email in the hope of helping you to bring a little more Mental Sunshine into your life. I provide a little tip, a thing you can try, that will hopefully improve your mood a bit. None of it is exactly life changing on its own But over time, I’d […]