I found the isolation brutal after losing the money. For the first time in my life I was truly alone. I was petrified but with time and committed meditation my "Isolation" became my "Splendid Isolation" on the California coast.

Think of your triggers as a great wave, waterfall, tsunami coming your way. Your objective is to learn to recognise the trigger and consciously disarm it before it does it's worst and activates that unwelcome automated response and you're under.

When Adrienne Banfield Norris was asked by her daughter to share her top life tip she told Jada Pinkett Smith the secret to her survival was down to one simple thing - Endurance. Life is just like the river, it doesn't matter how many times the rocks take a battering the river never stops flowing and the rocks endure the polishing.

Suicide is on the rise, particularly amongst young men but suicide only ever happens in a moment of temporary overload.

Start your journal and make a list of all the times you feel sad, hungry, angry, tired or just unable to motivate yourself

Controlled indulgence is all about being able to have a bit of what you fancy, now and again, without it becoming a compulsive addiction you need to get you through your life.

The greatest skill you'll ever master is self therapy.

When all of a sudden you're thinking I cannot pay my bills there's a good probability you are going to experience feelings of fear, anxiety, stress and possibly depression.

This time of the year is full of ups and downs, so it is important to have tools at your disposal to deal with whatever comes your way and be able with confidence to use these tools to trigger negative thoughts and actions into the positive. Most of us have so much trouble doing this, always feeling great in the moment and then back to beating yourself up when you don’t feel good but in reality there is..

Growing up and taking personal responsibility for your life's choices is your first step to personal happines; Shirley speaks.

The current economic climate globally has led to many people losing their jobs, resulting in families having to scrimp and save every penny in order to get by. With December 25 just around the corner, waves of anxiety have spread across the country, leaving a lot of people wondering how they will manage to survive.

When it comes to beating the blues of January debt and depression, don’t make the mistake of listening to everyone else. Think only about...

I am always bursting with cheap, cheerful, inspirational ways to live on next to nothing after finding myself homeless and penniless in 2005.

Here are some of my own personal tips on how I found ways to live my fantastic life on a shoestring budget.

1. You want to go on holiday but you are broke? Travel for free. Why not offer your passion/hobby i.e. flower arranging, photography, poetry and get yourself hired by a cruise liner like Fred Olson...

Time spent in splendid isolation is the way to self actualization

When you are dealing with your mind for the first time you are in uncharted territory, we only know what we know, until we know something else. Venus Cow will dish out some brutal truth common sense advice to help you overcome being stuck with a life you cannot stand and take you on a journey to personal development with some essential self therapy skills.

Life is a journey not a destination. The path you take leads to where you end up so taking time out to...

To deal with any overload of emotion in your head you have to look at it objectively and to do that you need to put distance between your thinking and your emotion. we do this by meditating.