Darwin Medical Hypnosis & Psychotherapy

13/10/2025

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12/10/2025

🧠 Have you checked in with yourself today?

It’s Mental Health Month and it's a perfect reminder to pause, breathe, and notice how you’re really feeling.

Feeling a little stressed or anxious? Try the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique ☝️
✨ 5 things you see
✨ 4 things you touch
✨ 3 things you hear
✨ 2 things you smell
✨ 1 thing you taste

A few mindful minutes can reset your whole day.

👉 Learn more simple, mental health and wellbeing tips here: https://bit.ly/3BAiDTf

12/10/2025

summary of Pope Leo's Encyclical on pursuit of weslth vs addressing poverty https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-pope-leo-delivers-breathtakingly-bold-salvo-wealth-elitism-and-poverty?fbclid=IwdGRjcANX-xVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmGXRLPVoqzN6L0hlsnk99BN4s2QEuDaFLJE5OPyWA16uihgBIHq7IQOUi-a_aem_Vm2XhLeszF1L5oFx7hZIxg

Prophetic in the truest sense, Dilexi Te is an uncompromising assessment of how wealth and faith in contemporary economic ideologies and markets have misshapen Christianity.

05/10/2025

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I wasn’t going to post about the death of actress Patricia Routledge, perhaps better known as Hyacinth Bucket! then I got sent this quote (minor edit made to correct factual error - thanks to those who pointed it out):

“In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.

My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.

At 61, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.

At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.

At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.

At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.

Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.

I’m writing this to tell you something simple:

Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.

Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.

You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.

You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.

24/09/2025

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02/09/2025

https://theconversation.com/neo-nazis-and-racist-rallies-why-its-important-the-australian-media-call-them-for-what-they-are-264329?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMjeEhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHj3fW1kY8hIgWtmGtHgsLyEvrpmr39SzQzQPxPpnCGZBwrtVI5MzW2g55I1o_aem_KNXljjtmw_OgL1boPMIPag =1756793861

When reporting on racist rallies, it’s important the media don’t fall for the shadowy language used by organisers.

01/09/2025

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20/08/2025

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The chart on the left shows the 19 largest economies in the world ranked by quality of life, determined by 57 indicators of social and environmental performance, such as health, education, housing, safety, sanitation, corruption, personal rights, environment, employment, and access to information.

Out of interest, I thought I'd rank these exact same countries by their democracy index score (the chart on the right), calculated by scoring countries (0–10) across five categories—electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties.

I know that correlation isn't causation, but by every conceivable metric to measure the well-being of a population, those living in democracies do better every time.

This is why the promotion of democracy across the world isn't just a geostrategic concern, it's a humanitarian one.

05/08/2025

20/07/2025

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