You know how doctors in the 1930’s used to prescribe cigarettes to our grandparents? And then after a bit of research and a few million cases of death from throat cancer and lung disease, it turned out that smoking wasn’t so great for you after all? “Whoops! Sorry about that guys. Turns out, cigarettes are …READ MORE →
Today is the last day of 2016 and, as I do every year, I’m getting ready to make a few changes for the better. You can obviously resolve to do things differently anytime throughout the year, (and I often do) but I love the fact that if you give something up on New’s Year’s Eve, …READ MORE →
It doesn’t matter if you like Christmas or not, it’s pretty hard to avoid getting caught up in it. Usual routine goes out of the window. Work hours get messed up. Your gym’s opening hours inexplicably change. You’re invited to parties you’d rather not go to and you don’t get invites to the ones you’d …READ MORE →
This might be the hardest skill I’ve ever had to master and it’s also the thing that has saved my life in thousands of different ways, on thousands of different days. I’m not encouraging laziness or promoting apathetic inaction here. What I’m talking about is the fundamental necessity of recognising when you really need …READ MORE →
Seven things that helped me to stay sober at the start 1. I stopped accepting every invitation. If I was invited to an occasion where I knew I’d be tempted to drink (so, that pretty much covered being invited anywhere in the early days) I declined the offer. I gave a polite reason as to …READ MORE →
Less than four years ago, in 2012 I appeared to be living the kind of life that dreams are made of. I worked as a breakfast show radio presenter at a big commercial station in a beautiful affluent area. I lived in a gorgeous two-bedroomed flat and I owned the little silver jeep that I’d always hankered after. I …READ MORE →
