I recently was on a Podcast with Valeria from Fit For Joy. Here is a link if you would like a listen. https://fitforjoy.org/guests1/2021/3/23/patricia-mcadoo
There’s a scene in the film Limitless, when Bradley Cooper takes the drug to help him fully utilise his brain for the first time and one of the first things…
There’s a line towards the end of Elizabeth’s Stroud’s book, Olive Kitteridge, when Olive comes to realise something important about her own life: ‘it was because she had not known what one…
Evidence from longitudinal studies indicates that writing down your goals makes it much more likely that you will achieve them. But where and how do you write them? For some…
It’s always worth asking the people in bookstores for book recommendations. Tell them what kind of books you like and they may just recommend a jewel you might otherwise never…
We can spend a lot of energy in our lives blaming other people. It can be hard to let go of past hurts, to stop blaming. But imagine if there…
An interesting area of social psychology is about what influences and persuades us to change in some way and how do we influence others to change? One way of looking…
Today I heard the very poignant love song ‘I’m not going to miss you’ which Glenn Campbell wrote to his wife recently. Sadly he has Alzheimer’s disease and has now entered long term…
The psychologist Ellen Langer talks about the importance of living with full attention and not mindlessly. Paying attention is about being open to noticing new things, even in situations which…
In the film Boyhood (2014)a group of four actors were filmed over twelve years by the filmmaker Richard Linklater, to capture the journey of the main character, Mason, from a…