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Hey, doctors! What does your patient actually need between appointments?
Health recommendations don't exist in isolation. They have to fit around work, children, caring responsibilities, pain, fatigue, food preferences, finances, habits, confidence, relationships and everything else.


FOOD AND BREATH: two things you do every day and rarely think about
We tend to think of food as something that enters the digestive system and breathing as something that happens in the lungs but neither system operates in isolation.


You’ve started GLP-1 injections. Now what?
For some people, starting a GLP-1 medication changes something they have spent years struggling with. Hunger becomes quieter.


Why quitting smoking is about more than nicotine?
Quitting smoking can be much harder than simply deciding that you no longer want nicotine.


When pain medicine meets health coaching – my collaboration with Dr Deepak Ravindran
I first came across Deepak while working as UK Director for a e-health company back in 2019 and then by chance again while studying for my health coaching degree.


Why pain can continue even after an injury has healed
For the person experiencing it, this can be deeply confusing. It can also create a particularly unhelpful assumption: if the pain is still there, something must still be damaged.


Why “you just need more motivation” is usually the wrong advice
There is a rather inconvenient piece of neuroscience that gets left out of most conversations about motivation.


The missing appointment
There is an appointment in healthcare that never appears in the diary.


Your doctor gave you good advice. So why is it so hard to follow?
You leave the doctor's surgery feeling reassured. You know what you need to do.
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