Today there are around 21,000 men and women around the UK who give up an hour or two a week and quite literally save lives, or at least make people lives a little more bearable. It all started with a young curate's experience, one of his first experiences was the funeral of a young girl who mistook her first menstrual [...]
One day a man went for a walk on the beach. He saw that a ship full of passengers struck a rock and capsized in the sea. The ship went under water and all the people on board fell into the sea. As they did not know how to swim, they drowned one by one. The man watched all this [...]
Plodding on and trying to put a brave face on things can for a time keep desperation at bay, usual a series of negative feelings will test even the strongest resolve and act like a sledge-hammer to almost wipe us out. lifting ourselves up after such a battering can be a long and depressive haul. for many of us the [...]
Better to have a reason to say no than an excuse right? So imagine you're up to your neck in work and someone adds to your load, the right thing to do would be to explain you are sinking under the current tasks, research shows however that we keep accepting more and more, until stress makes us erupt and with [...]
Can we compare or prioritise a tear to bleeding, if the person we care about is hurting in any way, don’t we feel it and hurt too. There’s nothing worse than not being able to help someone we're close to when they are in any kind of distress. I’d like to write a little about the top 3 things which [...]
Sitting upright in my hospital bed, it had been a long night, I had woken around 3am for the toilet, I did what I often did and stood up too quick for my body to manage, usually I sit down again but this time I steadied myself against the wall. The dizziness didn't go away, it got worse the next [...]
