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Your thoughts are energy streams and constant thoughts create links to the people you spend time with. If your relationship is loving, then the cord that connects you will be ...

I try my best to refrain from giving advice on anything, including writing. So, instead, I’d like to share a few things that I’ve learned over the course of writing ...

My novel Fire of the Dark Triad is a fast paced, cyber-punk thriller that revolves around the concept of the Dark Triad. Dark Triad individuals have little regard for others ...

Who knew that when you write, there is a complex interaction going on between the eye, the brain and the hand - the pen you hold is merely a conduit ...

The Stealing is a modern gothic incarnation of the classic gothic romance, featuring an independent young woman trapped in dreary and oppressive surroundings, a gentleman hero, storms at sea, a ...

1) I was brought up aboard, in Germany and then Hong Kong and Singapore, as my dad was a civil engineer working for the British government. I arrived back in ...

Stuff changes when you become a parent; that’s the lovely reality. It influences our work as well as our home lives. I, an author, have acquired new literary superpowers. So, ...

The yoga industry in the United Kingdom alone is worth more than £900 million. That is US $1.208 billion. The majority of yoga teachers in Europe and North America are ...

Our energetic body is attached to our physical body through seven major energy points, known as chakras. Each chakra represents a different emotion, organ and force within us. As our ...

Staging our own special events has never been more important since the pandemic. But where do you begin and what things should you know before you even get started? Expert ...

Female first? Not if you were a member of the royal family. When it came to inheriting the crown, ‘male-preference primogeniture’ applied, which meant that younger sons always took precedence ...

Over the course of the last two years, I have had many conversations during which people spoke about how they or someone they knew had been struggling with increased depression ...

First Contact Day celebrates the fictional event from the Star Trek series, in which the Vulcans first made contact with humans on April 5th, 2063. Despite this being a franchise-based ...

As Russia’s war on Ukraine dominates the headlines, remarkable images of women have sprung up on social media. Lesya Vorotnyk, a ballerina in the National Opera of Ukraine, went viral ...

In March 1907, Frances Hodgson Burnett received this note and an accompanying gift. ‘We one and all are taking the liberty to wish you health wealth and every happiness and ...

1. Emotional inheritance is the transmission of emotions from generation to generation. In studying the intergenerational transmission of trauma we investigate how our ancestors’ unprocessed emotions, especially trauma, are passed down ...

Watercolour is an amazing way to express creativity. Creativity is the expression of joy, movement and flow. Each time I create a painting there is a new unseen mystery unfolding. ...

To celebrate the release of her new novel, The Pilot's Girl, we asked author Catherine Hokin to write us an exclusive piece all about the place in which the book ...

Most people will recognise Dilly Carter as the straight talking organiser from BBC’s hit decluttering show Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon. This is how Dilly first appeared on ...

Loneliness is known to be associated with physical and mental illnesses, including high blood pressure, poor sleep, dementia, depression, suicidal ideation and even premature death. A study of the impact ...

I grew up in a Forces family, which meant I’d been to eight schools by the time I was twelve. Forces kids tend to go one of two ways: either ...

Here’s a question: Why is an event or emotion significant if it happens to a man on a battlefield and unimportant if it happens to a woman in her own ...

I always have more than one book on the go – as a reader, not as a writer! Currently it’s Raymond Chandlers The High Window - one of the lesser-known ...

-  1. People may have suspected a connection between the physical brain and emotional behavior as far back as the Stone Age. Archeological findings from the prehistoric era indicate early ...