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How much does your mind matter?

Do we ever stop to think about what we’re thinking?  Are the thoughts that we’re thinking relevant, useful, productive, reactive, peaceful or distressing?  Even more importantly, do we stop to think that we might be thinking too much? In a gorgeous conversation with my eldest granddaughter recently we began to dissect the mystery of that…

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Courtesy, discipline and respect

In our busy new world have we forgotten three small words? At a time when ‘enquiries’, ‘task forces’ and Royal Commissions proliferate, I’d like to begin improving all our many societal issues by doing it slightly differently. While all those are worthy of attention, I can’t help wondering whether their complex ponderings and costly outcomes…

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – a reflection

From the time I went public with my own story, to the similar stories we hear in our work at the SMTC today, my colleagues and I are well versed in the governing limitations of anxiety. One of those limitations is the diagnosed condition of OCD – obsessive, compulsive disorder.  Here are a couple of…