Author: adamlaidleruk

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and given my previous experiences of depression and anxiety, I really wanted to write something that might have some meaning to the thousands of people out there who struggle with their mental health every day. Whilst my blog only has a small following, I feel that we can all do […]

The last few weeks have been tough, probably the toughest since returning from my travels last year. There’s lots going on and last weekend, I felt overwhelmed. As I lay crying on my bed last Sunday, drifting slowly into a darkness that felt all too familiar, I realised this – last year I walked through the […]

Something quite special is happening in my life at the moment, and it seems to be an unintended consequence of me establishing a new identity. For the first time in my life, things seem to be aligning, making more sense, and I think I know why. In my last post I wrote about the pain of […]

I used to think I knew who I was and that I had a clear path in life. I was going to grow old with my partner having built a business together, sell it for a decent amount of cash and live a materially privileged life with complete financial independence – the modern day dream. […]

I was in a lecture recently where we talked about our own deaths. It’s certainly not a subject we talk about often. People seem to get deeply uncomfortable when the subject is raised. But whilst in this lecture it hit me like a freight train – one day I will die. It was as if I’d […]

I sat tonight watching Planet Earth 2. What a spectacular start to an incredible series. I thoroughly enjoyed the first series all those years ago and now have my Sunday nights planned out for the next few weeks! Bravo BBC. What struck me most in this week’s episode was how simple other animals lives are. […]

It’s almost a month since I returned back from my travels. I made a video not long after returning to share my experience with you, including the very spiritual and enlightening time I had in South America with the healing plant Ayahuasca. But how have things been since getting back? If I were answering that […]

The majority of us in the western world are being driven to disconnect from one another. We are being manipulated to consume more and more in the pursuit of ‘happiness’. In the process, we are chipping away at the very fabric of our humanity, forgetting how to truly connect with each other, how to love […]