• ‘Surviving’ the Festive Season after Stroke

    Significant events like Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year and weddings can be touch points for stroke survivors, bringing social anxiety, feelings of identity loss and grief, just when you’re expected to be excited, happy and in party mode.…

  • The secret power of music

    I love listening to music, so I was fascinated to hear about some new research by scientists in Germany and Norway who wanted to find out which music provided more pleasure to listeners. The researchers used artificial…

  • Vegetable patch for the soul

    How wonderful it is to have a veggie patch, even if it’s in pots on a balcony or a courtyard! Picking cherry tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber and eating them an hour later in a salad is so…