My birthday is early April so as a child I was often inundated with Easter eggs, my father often recalls the story about how one year my birthday actually fell on Easter day and so I received a mountain of Easter eggs that year. While my friends where off playing at my party, I was happily sat in a corner stuffing my face with chocolate. My step mother had a terrible sugar addiction, though in the 80’s no one ever really spoke about sugar addictions or even recognised the

Imagine if you lived in a world where no one was trying to outdo anyone else, where we all helped each other out of love and compassion and not competition, where everything that we did we did because we genuinely loved doing it. Just think about how it would feel to actually feel comfortable in your own skin all the time and to not suffer with anxieties, stress and worry. It’s hard to believe that anyone could live like this because the world around us mostly keeps us in

most of us at some point have experienced low points in our lives and some people have suffered deep bouts of depression throughout life. So how do we get past those moments when the depression and anxieties rear its ugly head once again? I’m human and I still experience those moments of anxiety from time to time as well as feeling low when things are not going as I had hoped, but we need to understand that these feelings for the majority of us are caused by negative thinkin