From Sky to Sky
I haven’t written in awhile. It’s actually 20 months to be exact. Life has been busy. In amongst the clinic, family, parenting, adulting...
Are you not Shaun Thompson?
When I retired from paying rugby, I left with a body that was relatively intact. I considered myself lucky but I did leave the game with...
The Pain Cave
It’s November 14, 2020. It’s just after 03:15 am and I’m sitting in the back of a car. My running partner, James, is sitting in front and...
#challengeaccepted
There are always different challenges taking place on social media, whether it’s push-ups, dumping ice water over your head or even...
The Butterfly Effect
The picture in the header this week comes out of Kai’s Grade 1 school workbook. It was taken a couple of weeks ago as I sat with him to...
A Quivering Universe
Two weeks ago, on a Sunday, my family and I went out of the city to a venue where we could escape the “new normal” of the world. I spent...
A Polished Turd
Today is day something, sometime in the middle of April. At least that’s what I think. Lockdown causes a blur between days and dates for...
Eristic Escalation
So as of last Thursday, SA has an additional 2 weeks of lockdown, bringing it to a total of 5 weeks (for now). Who knows what the ...
A Fat Bodybuilder
Two weekends before lockdown (strange how my life is divided into life before and life after lockdown) my boys had a play date at our ...
A one armed drummer?
The first CD I ever bought, with my own money, was Def Leppard’s 1992 album Adrenalize. I have fond memories of “taping” the cd onto a...
A Dazzle of Zebras
So we are into day 4 of South Africa’s national lockdown in trying to flatten the curve. I’d like to say the world is changing but in...
Our event horizon
For awhile now I’ve avoided commenting on the Coronavirus. I’ve found some of the memes funny and have been shocked at peoples panic...
The Power of Proximity
I have been really lucky over the course of my therapeutic career to have been exposed and had access to some of the top teachers and...
Skew Trees
In 2004 and 2005 I spent some time playing rugby on the Gold Coast in Australia. I had left SA with the intention of qualifying to play ...
Swings and Roundabouts
My oldest little guy, Lake, loves to swim. In fact it’s the only sport he does do at school and if ever he got to the swimming Olympics,...
Go For The Nose
At the end of my rugby playing career I took a coaching job down in the KZN Midlands. It was a tough 2 years as I adapted to not playing...
Expect Less. Accept More
We’ve almost come to the end of January 2020 and if you’re like most people, your December holiday and rest is probably a distant memory...
Long Days, Short Years
Towards the end of last year I was having a conversation with a friend and mentor regarding the difficulties of raising children...
Fear is a Liar
If you have children of a school going age, today would have been a tough day for most of them and a relief for most parents as school...
Happy #20plenty!
Happy #20plenty! This is how a client wished me yesterday. I really liked it and thought how apt for the beginning of a new decade. So my...