Celebrating NLP April 28th 2026 Basic NLP For this celebration issue, I’m celebrating the element of NLP that has had the biggest impact on my life: setting ‘well-formed outcomes’. This is my... Continue reading...
Why Are Strategies So Hard to Accept with ADHD and AuDHD? January 28th 2026 Basic NLP Regular readers of my columns and articles over the years will know the strategies have helped me enormously. And yet, they’ve never fully worked for... Continue reading...
Ecology in Goal Setting and in Life October 27th 2025 Basic NLP When I first came across NLP, I worried about the potential for it to be used to manipulate people. But then I learned about the... Continue reading...
Steamrollers and Sensory Acuity: Why Are We Sleepwalking Into So Many Impending Disasters? July 28th 2025 Basic NLP In so many areas of life (national politics, the state of the world and the planet itself) I keep thinking of that scene in Austin... Continue reading...
Strategies for Storms and Other Times When Your Normal Strategies are Gone April 28th 2025 Basic NLP Istarted drafting this during the red weather warning for Storm Éowyn. In the nearly six years I’ve lived in the Wild West (of Ireland) I’ve... Continue reading...
Chunking Up and Down with Time, Colour and More January 27th 2025 Basic NLP Ilove the NLP way of chunking up to connect with the big picture and chunking down for more detail. In this column, I’m sharing an... Continue reading...
Let Yourself Imagine the Identity You Barely Dare Dream Of October 23rd 2024 Basic NLP When you imagine a happy, fulfilled Future You beyond what you normally allow yourself to imagine, what springs to mind? STOP IT! Don’t immediately talk... Continue reading...
Do You Ever Reach a Goal Only to Immediately Backslide? July 28th 2024 Basic NLP I’ve loved the (neuro)logical levels since first training in NLP nearly two decades ago. I just made a mini series of videos about them (available... Continue reading...
Are You Working Against Yourself? April 28th 2024 Basic NLP People keep forgetting the toll the past few years has taken on so many. Many keep putting ridiculously high expectations on themselves, forgetting that their... Continue reading...
Sometimes, Ancient Technology is Better for the Brain April 28th 2024 Health Have you ever gone to make yourself a sandwich and almost popped the filling onto the plate, forgetting the bread, because you were trying to... Continue reading...
We Are What We Watch January 15th 2024 Health What we watch, whether consciously or mindlessly, has an impact on our mental health and wellbeing. It can even impact our sense of resourcefulness and... Continue reading...
We Have All the Resources We Need – Even When Going From 1 to 11 Cats Overnight January 15th 2024 Basic NLP One of the presuppositions of NLP is that we have all the resources we need (or we can create them). These resources can be internal... Continue reading...
The Importance of Downtime and the Default Mode Network October 26th 2023 NLP Considering so much of my work is about self-care, I struggle with downtime. My morning meditation and yoga is shorter some mornings but always (since... Continue reading...
When Deleting, Distorting and Generalising Exacerbates Pain October 26th 2023 Basic NLP We all know we need to delete, distort and generalise the gazillions of bits of information and sensations flying at us all day, every day... Continue reading...
Win Win Negotiations July 28th 2023 NLP When the UK voted 52% to 48% in favour of Brexit back in 2016, I went back to bed to sob. By 2019, many tears... Continue reading...
Reframing AI July 28th 2023 Basic NLP When I was chair of BACP (the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) Coaching, I used to attend occasional meetings where several coaching bodies got... Continue reading...
New Self-care Strategies for Better Balance April 28th 2023 Basic NLP Ithought I had self-care and Self care (that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most miraculous part of yourself) pretty well figured out. I’d done so much... Continue reading...
Can the Law of Reciprocity Go Too Far? April 28th 2023 NLP The Law of Reciprocity is about our human need for balance and fairness and the idea that if someone does something for us or we... Continue reading...
