To everyone who has supported our Behind the Hilt community, thank you! 🙂 There is a particular kind of hush and calm that has settled over my world this December. Long Covid has left me exhausted and it got to the point where I realised that the only way to start healing would be to […]

Professional advisers are paid to see clearly, yet history shows that clarity sometimes becomes selective when eyesight threatens revenue. The phenomenon is not complex. Advisers are commercial actors. Their income is often derived from the very organisations whose behaviour they are meant to scrutinise. When scrutiny risks termination of fees, a curious psychological recalibration can […]

   At the heart of all things during this festive season, more enduring than any decoration or fleeting toy trend guaranteed to send parents crazy, is Father Christmas, a figure who has captured hearts for centuries. There is something inherently magnetic about him, a charm that is gentle yet powerful, an invitation to pause and […]

Neighbour dynamics can occasionally feel like living inside an ongoing psychological study. Most of us want calm coexistence and the occasional friendly chat over a fence, but not a deep dive into social tolerance. Yet every now and then someone joins the landscape who shifts the entire atmosphere, and suddenly the simplest event like a […]

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right” isn’t just a motivational poster waiting to be ignored it’s basically life’s subtle way of saying, “Your brain is your boss and it is brutally efficient at proving itself right.” Henry Ford knew it probably while inventing the Model T which would have been […]