05/09/2026
I have no degrees.
I say that deliberately because for years I felt I had to explain it.
Eventually I realised people weren't necessarily questioning what I knew. They were questioning who had given me permission to know it.
Nobody did.
My education came from more than twenty years of working directly with human beings and over ten thousand sessions spent observing energy and what happens to it through grief, shock, fear, trauma, love, loss and everything else we manage to do to ourselves and each other.
It taught me something else too.
I am remarkably unimpressed by statistics.
Tell me that 93% of people do something and my first question is no longer what does that mean?
It's who counted them?
We've all heard that humans have 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts every day, often followed by another impressive percentage telling us how many are negative or repetitive.
It sounds wonderfully authoritative.
Except try finding the original research that actually established it, and the trail becomes very, very, very thin.
The same happens with statements such as our personality is fully formed by seven.
An enormous and complicated subject gets compressed into a sentence, repeated often enough, and somewhere along the way repetition becomes authority.
Perhaps I'm suspicious because I'm old enough to remember being taught plenty of things that subsequently changed.
Margarine was going to save us from butter. Eggs were dangerous. Fat was the enemy. Recommendations changed, theories were revised, and yesterday's certainty became today's interesting historical footnote.
That's fine, because science is supposed to change when the evidence changes.
What I reject is the peculiar idea that today's version must therefore be treated as unquestionable truth.
My own work has given me a very different reference point.
Energy.
I have watched people tell me they are absolutely fine while everything I can feel in their system says otherwise. I've watched the body respond the instant we reach an experience somebody thought they'd forgotten.
I've felt energy tighten, retreat, pool and release, and seen breath, posture, expression and thought change with it.
The person doesn't need to understand it.
They don't even need to believe in it.
It happens anyway.
And that's why, when an accepted explanation conflicts with what I repeatedly observe, I don't abandon my observation, instead I become curious.
Curiosity asks the question that authority often finds inconvenient:
What if we've got this wrong?
That question has shaped my entire working life.
I chose firsthand experience over inherited explanation. I watched...questioned..... tested what I thought I knew against the next person who walked through my door, and when what I saw contradicted my own ideas, I changed them.
So no, I don't have a degree hanging on my wall.
I have something else.
Twenty years of evidence gathered one human being at a time.
Science can tell me what its current theory says should be happening.
I'll keep watching what actually happens.
Energy has never asked me to believe it. It just keeps showing me.
Thoughts on this Sunday
Happy Fathers Day to all you spectacular men out there 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
