There once was a virus who fell in love with its host. It drifted around in their bloodstream, dreamily content with its lot in life. Every moment was a joy. It was physically joined with its true love, and it had never wanted anything more. One day, after a spate of joyous multiplying, the virus…
Exploding Cats & Panic Attacks
Anxiety can get out of control very quickly, but there’s one big idea which reduces its power over us…
(NO CATS WERE HARMED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THIS POST, BUT ONE ELDERLY LADY DID FAINT)
It’s Helpful to Seek Fresh Perspectives
Let’s summarise The Story So Far of this initial exploration of anxiety. And because I’m dangerously over-organised, let’s do it as a list: It wasn’t obvious to me that I even had anxiety, despite being constantly anxious forever. My first instinct was to hide it, repress it, and pretend everything was okay… but that just…
Walking on Custard Release Date Announced and Kindle Pre-Order Available!
Huge news everybody! I can announce that the release date for the paperback edition of Walking on Custard & the Meaning of Life will be the 31st March. Sign up to the mailing list for the latest developments. MORE huge news everybody! The Kindle version is available for pre-order RIGHT NOW. Go to this page…
Untangling Anxiety: The First Step
The first thing I had to do after admitting that I had anxiety was to decide to actually do something towards being less anxious. Well, I say the “first” thing. But this decision actually took me several years. In fairness, I was busy! You can’t just drop everything and go ‘deal with anxiety’, can you?…
Distracted by Cake
I was intending to write the next part of the series about anxiety, but I accidentally wrote a story about a cake instead. I’m sorry. The Story About A Cake “Hello,” said the cake. “Have you ever met a talking cake before?”
I Was Ashamed of Being Anxious
Falling a long way while strapped to a German teaches us a lot about hiding anxiety. There’s no shame in being anxious, and no need to keep anxiety secret.
What Is Anxiety?!
How an encounter with a terrifying ant sort-of helps to explain what anxiety is.
And what does it look like in real life?
The Custard Has Landed
Okay, so “I hope to release during January” was waaaay optimistic. Somehow I forgot that every single job takes way more time than you possibly imagined. Anyway, the first print samples arrived today: Exciting! There are some weird printing issues on a few pages, but I expect to get those resolved pretty quickly. It looks…
First!
It’s traditional* for the first post on a new blog to be solely about the first post itself, and who am I to ignore Tradition? * Well, probably traditional, though honestly I just made this up. It certainly sounds traditional enough for me. At the time of writing this site is artistically unfinished and somewhat unattractive, but it is at…