I love writing about everything that makes me passionate. And, whatever inspires me to put pen to paper, is something I want to share with everyone! Here is a selection of a few of my favourites...

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Psychology

  

This is a sneak-preview excerpt from Men, Money, Chocolate & You: Recipes for a Magical Life, the sequel to Men, Money & Chocolate. Co-authored with my life-coach mum, Vicky van Praag, it's a collection of articles about relationships, wealth and weight-loss. It's full of fun, insight and inspiration!

This is a fun article I wrote about phobias. When I was a kid I had a huge phobia of sharks. Since I grew up in Cambridge, without much danger of ever encountering one, this particular irrational fear provided much amusement for my family. I'm okay now, but I've still never seen Jaws...

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Mind, Body, Spirit

For the last five years Artur & I have been going to workshops with Ariel & Shya Kane, whose work and way of looking at the world we absolutely love! This is a feature about them (and us) I wrote on the subject of a workshop they held in Hamburg in April 2009.

Here is another feature about the Kanes, their work, and my personal experience in one of their workshops; it is from Wisdom Magazine, November 2009.

This is a little piece I wrote about Ariel & Shya Kane's third book: Being Here: Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment. A sweet and touching collection of short stories that helped transform my experience of being on the tube...

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Travel

In Men, Money & Chocolate the main character, Maya, travels across America in search of her dreams and sense of self. The book is quite autobiographical, her emotional journey is my own, and her geographical journey is based on the one I took across America, oh so many years ago. These are a series of articles I wrote about the trip. But I must admit that, as with my books, it's not all entirely factual...