During our holiday over Christmas, I noticed my little boy saying, “I’m shy” when confronted with a social situation he wasn’t sure about, for instance, a couple of kids interacting on the beach, who he’d like to play with. This is something relatively new, and I’m not sure where he learned the expression, but he obviously feels it fits with the emotions he has around trying to interact with some new encounters. Fortunately, I find it doesn’t take much to cajole him into pa

I don’t know about you, but there are some days when I’ve got it and others when I just don’t. There are some times when I’m feeling totally on top of my game, and other times when I want to retreat to a cosy little corner and just watch and not get involved with anything. Is this normal? Absolutely. Because most of us ebb and flow through time feeling more or less good or ok, and there are just times when we’re under the weather or life is getting us down. But pretty soon we

Most of you would have heard the expression: feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers wrote a best-selling book of the same title, and in fact it’s her registered phrase. This self-help classic was published 25 years ago, and has recently been re-issued. It’s sold 15 million copies in 100 countries. So what makes the book and the sentiment behind it so popular, even today? It’s quite a ‘bible’ for some people – particularly women - and Jeffers’ hypothesis is that doing a