Warning…impending ‘New Year, New Me’ post! I’m typically not a fan of New Year’s resolutions, but this year feels different. Things have gone too far. I’m no longer just depleting myself, I’m depleting my family, too. And things need to change. Of course, we’ll start with the old cliche of losing weight! It’s not even about my size. I honestly don’t mind having a ‘Dad-bod’. In fact, I much prefer it to men with six pack abs and beefy biceps. Just doesn’t do it for me. But you have to admit, I...

I was talking with a good friend recently and they said “Someone once said to me that I’ll never be happy, and I think they were right”. This comment puzzled me. Not because I have views on whether they’re a happy person or not, but because I think that chasing permanent happiness is just setting yourself up for failure. I’m not trying to be pessimistic, I promise. Happiness is a feeling. Like joy or sadness or anger or contentment or all the other vast range of feelings we experience as...

As a hyper-mobile person, it could be forgiven to think that yoga should be easy for me, and that I should be naturally more flexible than most. But that’s a common misconception. Hyper-mobility doesn’t necessarily equate to flexibility. Sure…for some it does. But actually, it turns out it’s a spectrum. What used to be commonly known as ‘double jointed’ is now officially called Hyper-Mobility Spectrum Disorder. And it’s taken me several years to get my head around what that actually means for...