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…
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…
Childhood magic, magic of life …
What’s it like to be a kid? Can you remember? Roll back the years for a bit … to recall being about 7 years old again … and from those recollections, who do you think you have grown into now? We’re all different beings but our beginnings set the scene for the person we eventually…

