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The Unshakeable Self
I’ve always admired unshakeability - the knack of being able to stay composed and centred in the face of life’s challenges. As with physical fitness, this takes more than just having a strong constitution. We need flexibility to adapt to change, and agility to manoeuvre through it. Much of our reaction to our environment and circumstance is involuntary. Our autonomic nervous system is continually shifting between two alternately dominant modes. The sympathetic nervous system

Chrys Charteris
Oct 229 min read


Words Work Wonders
Visual messaging is powerful. It’s the quickest way to get a reaction. Pictures might seize our attention, but what can words conjure...

Chrys Charteris
May 203 min read


Your Money, or Your Life
On Christmas Eve, a marketing email headed “Go Ahead, Skip the Gym” hit my inbox. A fitness brand that I’d bought equipment from during...

Chrys Charteris
Jan 13 min read


Words That Set Us Free
In shaky moments, how often has someone tried to cheer you with platitudes like ‘every cloud has a silver lining’, or ‘things could be...

Chrys Charteris
Nov 30, 20243 min read


Identifying the Unidentified
This year, a rebranding took place. It wasn’t the redesigning of a logo, the tweaking of a font, or the grand-scale overhaul of a...

Chrys Charteris
Sep 2, 20213 min read


A Kind of Magic
“In the beginning was the Word,” declares the Gospel of John. This biblical word – or Logos, from the Greek – is something quite...

Chrys Charteris
Sep 1, 20213 min read
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