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Taming the Inner Chimp – Mental Health, MBTI and Meaningful Structure
1 Jul 2025 · 4 min read

Taming the Inner Chimp – Mental Health, MBTI and Meaningful Structure

Introduction In my earlier posts — “Listen to the Silent Alarm” and “Mental Health Tips & Techniques” — I explored how self-awareness tools like MECS and BACES helped build an early-warning system for my mental …

Tips and Techniques To Mental Health and Wellbeing
26 Feb 2023 · 6 min read

Tips and Techniques To Mental Health and Wellbeing

My tips for your mental health

Listen to the silent alarm - using BACES and MECS for your mental health
19 Feb 2023 · 8 min read

Listen to the silent alarm - using BACES and MECS for your mental health

Introduction In this post, I’m going to talk about some techniques that you might find useful if you struggle with anxiety and stress. Having had issues with both (among other mental health issues) in recent years, …

ME/CFS: Living with an invisible illness
19 Feb 2021 · 7 min read

ME/CFS: Living with an invisible illness

My experience of living with ME/CFS

22 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

Job Interviews in 2020 - Part II

Introduction In my last post, I talked about the background to my recent job search, and the start of the process in terms of interview preparation - taking time to really get to know yourself! With that done, you are …

15 Aug 2020 · 8 min read

Job Interviews in 2020 - Part I

In a break from my usual type of post, this post will be largely non-technical - I know, this is a tech blog, but bear with me! This was was inspired by a message from Nick Colyer, co-founder over at Skylines Academy in …