“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” Charles Caleb Cotton.
This guest piece, kindly submitted by James Bradshaw, explains why friends, old and new, are a crucially important part of being human and of being happy:
“A couple of TV news items caught my attention recently.  One [...]

A couple of years ago, I coached an editor of one of the leading glamour magazines here in the UK and she subsequently wrote up her experiences of  being coached in an article about Voluntary Simplicity.
One of the challenges she faced in living and working more sustainably was cultivating a change in perspective on the [...]

In our move to a more sustainable way of living and of doing business, we know that we need to change how we act and also how we think. Our actions, after all, stem from our thoughts and, unless we change our approach to how we think, we will not manage to downshift or to [...]

Despite not having a television, somehow the gloom and doom of the media hype on our “dire economic situation” has still filtered through to this downshifter’s awareness. An alien from outer space visiting our planet for the first time might despair at our lack of understanding of the very basics of living within our planetary [...]

Why do we need to heal? What is it about being in the rat race that causes us so much discontentment and ill-health? With some studies showing that over 70% of office workers in the UK are currently suffering some form of ill health as a result of their jobs, it seems pertinent to explore [...]