For many of us, real rest is only possible when the whole world decides to do so. There’s something so powerful about December and early January, especially in South Africa. The collective rhythm changes. Finally email inboxes go dormant. Meetings stop or are rescheduled to next year. Expectations to be available soften. Our nervous system senses this before we can even explain it: it’s safe to slow down now . I went into the holidays carrying more than I realised. My 2025 wa

The goal of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the effectiveness of mindfulness as a defence mechanism against SE attacks

During the recent school holidays, my husband, kids, and I spent ten days self-driving through Kruger Park, staying in the lower park’s...

In the 2011 Thinking,Fastand Slow book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman, the author describes how cognitive biases are unconscious and...

Throughout (human) history, our brains have always responded to threats in the same ways - we are wired to survive, more than we are...

When we think we do multiple things at once, our brains just switch between tasks at a cost. Every time we switch, we need to make a...

A couple of months ago I sat in an Uber which dropped me at the workshop where my car went in for a service. The area is not the best in...

Photo credit: Paul Grapendaal When I was growing up I noticed that unlike a lot of my friends I never really belonged to any particular...

Friday Thursday 19th November is World Toilet Day Image credit: Lavo.co.za Last Sunday we’ve come back from a trip with a group of other...

Remaining calm and staying positive during this pandemic craziness is not easy. I usually am a glass half full kind of person and try to...