Small shifts in thinking start with a little understanding.
Honest reflections on anxiety, confidence, sleep, and the way our minds work.
Welcome to the Mind&Burt blog…
A space where I share honest reflections and the kind of thinking that I hope makes your day a little lighter. You'll find pieces on anxiety and how to work with it rather than against it, and the science behind why your mind works the way it does. There's confidence, sleep, stopping smoking or vaping, navigating change, and the quiet power of thinking differently. Now and then I'll share something more personal too, because I believe that real connection matters, and the most useful things are often the ones we recognise in ourselves.
There's no agenda here. No pressure to book, no being told to fix yourself. Just a space to explore ideas that might help you move forward, at whatever pace feels right.
I hope you find something here that strikes a chord.
Can't switch your mind off at night?
When you can't switch off at night, it's easy to take it as proof that you're not coping, or that your brain is somehow faulty. It's neither. More often than not, it's a brain that’s still running in alert mode long after the day has finished.
Where does confidence really come from?
I can still remember the first time I had to stand up and present to a room of more than a hundred people. My heart felt it was beating a hundred miles an hour and underneath it all sat one dead certainty, that every single person in that room would see straight through me.
Struggling with Anxiety?
Anxiety is sly. It convinces you that everyone else got handed a calmer mind and yours went missing somewhere along the way. The thumping chest, the thoughts that won't sit still even when you're exhausted, and underneath it all, that low hum of dread that turns up without an invitation and never says why it's come.
Ready to stop smoking or vaping for good?
Nearly everyone who sits down with me wanting to stop smoking or vaping opens with a version of the same line. “I’ve tried before, loads of times, I just can’t seem to make it stick.”