Heading towards a break, do you stagger over the finish line at work and typically fall ill? The stress hormone, cortisol, lowers immunity and makes us more prone to infections.  When we’re engrossed in a last-minute work flurry, viruses can sneak in.  Two or three days later, just as...

Take this test to see how much of a Pro you are at juggling: Could you cook dinner, supervise homework, do a set of squats, clean the kitchen benches and have a phone conversation? Could you drive, listen to a business webinar, put your makeup on at traffic lights and do your pelvic floor...

The concept of mortality scares me. I’m sure this is true for almost everyone. And what scares me more is the thought that my loved ones are mortal. Happily, most of the time I am able to distract myself from engaging with these thoughts with much more pressing concerns, like wondering where...

Are you making the most of ‘incidental me-time?’ The photo above is of me with my one-year-old son.  He was showing me a single autumn leaf, out of about a million leaves available to show me in Hampstead Heath (a gorgeous piece of English parkland used as the setting for various...

No matter how organised you are, how efficient, how forward-planning and no matter how well you juggle competing priorities, there are times when it all falls in a heap. Or does it? It usually only takes us dropping one or two of the balls for us to throw our hands in the air and think...

Who do you ask for help? It’s a question that provokes either a long list of names being rattled off, or a response like: ‘no-one’, ‘I wouldn’t ask’ or, ‘I’m not that kind of person!’ The latter is more often than not uttered by someone...