Unravelling a Certain Word

Unravelling a certain word My father used to have a particular expression when he felt that someone was misusing a word, an almost imperceptible twitch between his eyebrows and at the sides of his nose when someone said ‘disinterested’ when they meant...

The Banality of Petty Evils

It was an almost ordinary Sunday afternoon in West London, warm for February, enough so that some shops had their doors propped open. Two young men were crouching beside one, shovelling boxed up jars of honey from a display into a large shopping bag. As I sidled...

In gratitude: Sajad Bhat

When Sajad came to us at Healing Minds Foundation, he was a freshly minted young post-grad, straight out of Kashmir University. He was so quick to learn about the life of the mind when people are so afraid that they can barely function, and indeed to unlearn some of...

Last Word BBC Radio 4

Justine talks about Norah Vincent’s life, work and death on BBC Radio 4’s obituary programme ‘Last Word’. The piece starts at 12:40 minutes into the programme:  

The Choice of How We Die

Justine writes about the days spent with an important friends before her ‘Voluntary Assisted Death’ in Switzerland.https://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/the-final-countdown-justine-hardy The final countdown to death: Justine Hardy September 2022 View The...

Self Parenting

Self Parenting Sometimes it is not so easy to adapt to the easing. New physical and psychological stressors are being kicked up with the constant shifts and changes. Justine looks at some of the most easily accessible self-soothing and self-parenting tools to help...