Perception Archives - Joanna Taylor

February 21, 20180Comments

Changing Your Stress Mindset

What actually is stress? Stress can be defined as a psychological and physiological reaction caused by a perceived lack of resources; it is also the feeling we get when something

August 1, 20160Comments

False Evidence Appearing Real

Last Thursday was haircut day... we have a wonderful, patient lady who, every four weeks, comes to the house for the morning and creates order out of chaos; leaving behind

July 21, 20160Comments

Dogs will be Dogs…

So Luna caught a mole yesterday evening... I've no idea where she found it, as there are no evident mole hills in the garden, but she was exceptionally pleased with

April 11, 20130Comments

The Teachings of Dog – No 28: Hearing the signals

Somewhere between 5.01pm and 5.05pm every day, Daisy will start to bark. It's an occasional "woof", sometimes interspersed with the odd "grrr", designed to attract attention, and it means simply

June 7, 20120Comments

The Teachings of Dog – No 24: Why we believe weird stuff

One of Daisy's self-imposed missions in life is to chase visiting birds from her premises. In our garden, she has plenty of opportunity to indulge this desire as it is the haunt