With only 128 active cases of coronavirus Argentina declared lockdown would commence on 20th March. A policed enforced nationwide quarantine has come early, activating my nervous system. I was confused about exactly when it was going to start -thinking that midnight 20th March meant at the end of the day rather than the start of it. I also didn’t know… Read more →
The situation changed daily as we approached lockdown in Argentina. Flights from Europe and the US ceased. The British Ambassador urged all British Nationals to return to the UK. The atmosphere in the city felt different: queues formed outside of pharmacies and supermarkets so as to limit the number of people inside. Shelves emptied, which took me by surprise as… Read more →
The tango community in Buenos Aires got together and decided to close all of the milongas and tango schools until 25th March 2020 because of the Coronavirus. Tango In The Time Of Coronavirus. Many dancers come from all over the world, which puts Argentina at risk of the virus spreading further. It originally arrived from Italy when an Argentinian traveller… Read more →
Whilst independent bookshops in the UK are closing down, Buenos Aires has more per capita than any other city on the planet. It is the bookshop capital of the world and this Vlog explains why. National Geographic and The Guardian named one of them the most beautiful bookshop in the world. Watch this Vlog to take a visit. Please help!… Read more →
I’m very excited to share my new Vlog with you! It combines my award winning filmmaking skills with my passion for tango as well as promoting my books. It is beautifully imperfect as I’m not used to being in front of the camera and it is also logistically difficult to film myself. I have only brought my GoPro and mobile… Read more →
I still haven’t come to any clear conclusion about when a spiritual emergence becomes a psychosis or vice versa. But it was Stansilov Grof’s work that originally helped me look at my own experience from a different perspective. I definitely have spiritual experiences that are either ignored or pathologised by the mental health services and this is a form of… Read more →
Do you want to know a secret? I have commissioned the TALENTED Boe Huntress to sing a STUNNING cover of a 1980’s track for My Beautiful Psychosis book trailer. When Boe Huntress sang Eye of the Tiger, it changed the whole meaning of the song. But the track I have chosen for the trailer is to be kept a secret…… Read more →
Eight years ago I went to see a psychic. Don’t judge me. I needed some reassurance at the time. This is what the psychic medium Dorothy Chitty said: I started writing when I was first discharged from hospital way back in 1996. But, like psychic Dorothy said, I put it aside. It sounded self pitying and nothing I could feel… Read more →
Click on this link to go straight to the Crowdfunding Campaign. I have written ‘My Beautiful Psychosis’ to help change perceptions and de-stigmatise psychosis. It is due for publication on World Mental Health Day on 10th October 2019. I want it to go as far and as wide as possible. An eye catching book cover is essential to achieve this.… Read more →
This is the image that greets me when I walk into Hospital Rivadavia in Buenos Aires to see a psychologist called Delfina. Delfina means dolphin, which is my power animal. I’ve never been offered a talking therapy in the UK and when I asked if it was possible to see a psychotherapist, I was told, ‘No’ and put on a… Read more →
