The Happiness Blog

It's been 20 months since I last wrote a blog, and so before plunging back in to happiness talk, I wanted to fill you in on the major life changes that have happened to me since then. My last blog was about whether children would make me happier.  In order to carry...

So I wrote a blog about 10 months ago about whether children make you happier. It looks like I’m going to discover the answer for myself... I’m due to have a baby girl in November! I’m pretty apprehensive about it. In just over a year I will have gone from being...

If I ever get ahead of myself, and start thinking how well I am managing to keep calm and happy in this crazy city, all I need to do is take the tube in rush hour. 20 minutes of having people barging past me, pushing their backpacks into my face as I try to find a...

I spent my honeymoon in Italy. I chose it because I have a strong attachment to the country - I first went there when I was 21, and spent a lot of time riding around on the back of vespas with handsome young men. Then I returned in 2012, following a difficult time on...

Recently I was excluded from a group of friends. I know... this shouldn’t happen to an adult woman! It’s a boring story, which isn’t worth repeating, but basically I annoyed someone in the group and got knocked off the social media distribution. It was an interesting...

Since my last blog about doing a silent retreat, lots of people have asked me how to start meditating. It's something I haven't written about before because there is so much information out there. But it seems that all the information can be confusing - where do you...