Do One Thing

January. Is it a month you dread, reminding you of what you didn’t achieve the previous year, or do you welcome it with open eyes and heart, striving towards personal and or professional goals?           I’m somewhere in the middle, striving...

Why Do I Bother?

Why do I work until 9pm, replying to emails at 11pm, 6am, speaking to a concerned mum about their baby in between patients, or an anxious man with acute low back pain late at night, looking for reassurance? Or fit a runner into a slot that doesn’t actually exist, in...

5 Steps to Tuning In

We are all so busy, some of us have lost the ability to listen to our bodies. I mean truly listen, communicate with, check in. Not thinking we are – we need to get out of our heads and listen to what our bodies are telling us. Sound weird? Maybe, but just humour me –...

I’m a Physio

I’m a physio, but nobody taught me how to explain to a 55 year old man, that his back pain was possibly a return of his cancer, and that he may need surgery and chemotherapy. Nobody told me that the realisation in his eyes would stay with me. Nobody taught me how to...