Seven powerful ways to be more mindful and find your Inner Balance

On being made 'open plan'

As the days lengthen, we absorb more light and more sun into our bodies. We feel an energy coming to wake us up from the winter sleep/hibernation.

Joseph Heller said, " Every writer I know has trouble writing." I know I often have trouble writing at home when the demands of the day and life take over. That's why I invest in attending regular writing retreats. It's where I make headway on major writing projects each year and where I am my most productive.

The British Museum's new exhibition on the body beautiful is gorgeous. But it seems to miss beauty's dangers.

Sometimes advice is the last thing we want. But....

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I'm gonna get radical. For a few minutes, lets forget fashion mags, new season trends, mannequins in store windows. That's right - forget them. Lets forget the advice of attentive sales people. Lets forget what we 'should' be wearing at our age. I've curated 12 mantras for the authentically dressed wardrobe-rules rebel...

Apparently the 'one size fits all' mantra only applies if you are a *small* size...

You’d love to write or start a blog, draft the content for your website or even write a book someday? But how can you do this with your busy, demanding sometimes overwhelming life? One writer shares how she does it.

If you're a raving fan of self-development literature, you might, like me, have 723 books on the subject. Alas, I have a guilty confession about my self-help library....

I give you fair warning, you won't read about this in the national press: it's considered too shocking.

I listened to an interview with the writer Jon Ronson, who described one of the dangers of social media, and particularly Twitter , as akin to 'sleepwalking into a surveillance society'. He was referring to some of the high profile cases where ill advised tweets have led to trial by the mob. Here are some of my reflections on the issues, pitfalls and benefits of social media, for young and old alike.

Clean up, improve, treasure, fix or throw away? What will you do with yours?