walking on custard

I've spent my life being motivated by anxiety. But now the anxiety has gone, so has my motivation!

You can only ever tackle a tiny bit of anything at any given time.

I'm not very good at it, unless I pay attention.

You'll never believe what happened when I got a haircut.

An article I wrote for a charity.

My health anxiety has taken me to some unexpected places.

We can only perceive reality through our own senses and internal processes.

A cool thing I've been doing for decades.

I did a TED talk. It was nice.

My thoughts go straight to the extremes. Do they have to?

Bad days still happen after anxiety fades. We can learn to enjoy them too.

At least, not entirely...

As a child, I firmly believed in magic. As an adult...

Planning for failure is good, unless it's the only thing we ever do.

Breathing is underrated.

Are we separate from our thoughts? What does that even mean?!

... it's me, right? No?!

Is it better to think things that are helpful than things that are true?

Once at a party, we all told one lie. Mine went on to become legendary. And I regretted it for years.

How useful is laughter for the anxious?

Shooting the moon is an excellent idea, both in card games and metaphorically.

I wrote a book!

I'm on a podcast!

Today we answer the Occasionally Asked Question: "Is this site just excerpts from the book, and how is that related to your plans for World Peace?"

A guest blog post.

A cheesy idea to annoy my inner critic. Do we "have everything we need"?

There once was a virus who fell in love with its host.

Things, in general, can rapidly spiral out of control.

Some things seem obvious to me now, but they took years to learn.

Maybe it'll just get better on its own if I do literally nothing?

I have no memory of writing this.

Falling a long way while strapped to a friend taught me about hiding anxiety.

I was once attacked by a Bolivian Conga Ant.