WHAT I'M DOING NOW

This update was written in MAY 2025.

UNIVERSITY LECTURING

I am currently teaching modules for Master's and undergraduate degree courses on mental health, physical activity, behaviour change, and motivational interviewing at Northumbria University.

WRITING AND AUDIO

Although I will continue to write blog articles at Substack and record the Ask Me Anything podcast, I have paused both for the last few months as I have been doing extra university lecturing to cover for staff leave. These will continue again towards the end of May 2025.

I completed updated editions of both of my books:

oNLINE AND IN-PERSON COURSES

  • In February and September 2025, I am presenting a number of one-off wellbeing courses for new students at various universities throughout the UK.

  • I am teaching new Manage the Mind workshops throughout the UK starting in January 2025.

  • I am teaching workshops on how to cope with exam anxiety in May, June, and November 2025.

  • I am also trialling a new Confidence in Communication workshop starting in February 2025. The workshops are mainly about helping people develop skills and confidence in public speaking, presenting, and communication. I am offering different versions for students and members of the general public. Please contact me if you would like to attend one of the trial workshops.

  • My online course, ‘Overcome Anxiety and Panic Attacks’ is still available at Udemy.

READING

The psychology / science books that I have recently read or am currently reading are:

  • Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference by Rutger Bregman

  • Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish by Patrick Grant

  • The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far by Suzanne O’Sullivan

  • Addicted to Anxiety by Owen O'Kane

  • The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter

  • What Mental Illness Really Is… (And What It Isn’t) by Lucy Foulkes

  • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

  • Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in Chaotic Times by Brigid Delaney

  • Peak Mind by Amishi Jha