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01 December 2025 – Resilience: Bouncing Back

In December and January we’re doing something different in this newsletter. We’re bringing you inspiration, pure and simple. In 2023, life insurer BrightRock commissioned an 8-part podcast series called “Change in…

24 November 2025 – Family can be Complicated

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. This is just about the best time of year. The work is done. Two glorious months of freedom lie ahead of you. But… as we…

17 November 2025 – SEX: RED LINES AND GUIDELINES

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. This was meant to be a gentle discussion of the nature of love and how to navigate all the turmoil it can bring at…

10 November 2025 – Exam time is Breathe time

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Exam time is per definition filled with stress and tension. This week, we bring you a suggestion to help you cope meditation. For those…

03 November 2025 – GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. This week, we’re returning to a thought we discussed in June, when you were writing semester exams. We are circling back because…

27 October 2025 – Failure is not Fatal

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Apparently Winston Churchill never said the words quoted above, which are so often attributed to him, but it encapsulates an idea that…

20 October 2025 – Writing Exams with Confidence

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. End of October, and the exams are upon us. I see UJ starts this week, Stellenbosch and Limpopo next week, UKZN…

13 October 2025 – Making Sense of Your Work

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. At this point in the year, you are overwhelmed with course work, overloaded by information in all your different modules that you…

06 October 2025 – Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. I really hope you’re well in this first week of October, South Africa’s most beautiful month. I’m not just saying that out…

29 September 2025 – Using AI to help you study

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. You are studying at a unique moment in time, when the world as we know it is being changed by technology. Even last year…

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