Do you ever feel as if things in your life are swinging wildly back and forth from one extreme to another, and your emotions are roller-coaster-ing along with them? I’m sure this is a common occurrence among humans, and it’s understandable that you might react strongly to things going on around you, whether they are […]

Do you ever make big plans of what you’re going to achieve on any given day, and then feel like you’re failed if you don’t get everything done? I’m sure we’ve all experienced that – and I’m here today to tell you how to reframe things so you can always feel like you’re doing a […]

At the start of every year, my human, Annie, attends a workshop with Claire P from Write For Your Life, in which the participants use freewriting exercises to decide on a theme for the upcoming year. A theme is different from a resolution or a set of goals, because it provides a focus or a […]

  Do you ever find yourself thinking, “I’ve never been able to do X, so there’s no point trying”? Or viewing yourself in a particular way because “that’s the way it’s always been”? That kind of thinking is called a fixed mindset and it can throw up all sorts of obstacles to you achieving your […]

Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you’ve dedicated time, effort and/or money to something and that makes it difficult to see when it’s time to let it go? That’s called the sunk cost fallacy and it can be really hard sometimes to recognise when that’s what you’re experiencing and do something about […]

Have you ever had a situation where you’ve tried really hard at something, swung wildly out of control and then over-corrected, so you ended up going too far back the other way? I know my humans have experienced this when trying to drive a narrowboat. it’s very easy to steer too far in one direction, […]

Do you ever find yourself worrying about how much you might owe one of your friends after a night out? Or what to get a friend for their birthday, just because they got you something last year? Keeping track of what your friends do for you and trying to make sure you reciprocate to an […]

Do you ever find yourself looking at your to-do list and feeling completely overwhelmed by all the things on it? So much so that you’re paralysed by indecision about where to even begin? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. A lot of the humans I know and love find themselves with too much to do […]

One of my human Annie’s regular editing clients, Regula Fischer, hosts a podcast called Many Firsts, where she interviews people about experiences they’ve undertaken for the first time, which have had a major impact on their lives. On reflecting back over the last couple of years, Annie and I have undertaken ‘many firsts’ of our […]

Do you ever find yourself pushing against the situation you’re in, wishing it could be different but unable, for whatever reason, to change it for the better? If so, based on my interactions with humans, you’re definitely not alone! But there is a seemingly paradoxical way to make things easier – accepting what is. It […]