we all wear a lot of hats…

… and we are required to be different people at different times of the day and different days of the week. But the real us exists beneath our job titles, our roles and responsibilities, our experiences, traumas, and the baggage we drag along behind us.

I’m Chris Brock. I have a professional persona that’s required for my day job, and at home I assume the role of a doting father and husband, which enriches my life and my soul, and brings me immense joy.

Over the years I’ve done lots of jobs and been to lots of places. I’ve been a professional photographer, a magazine editor and journalist, I’ve worked as a van driver, a carer for people with disabilities, I’ve worked in a bank, and I’ve been a kitchen hand. I’ve lived in London and New York, travelled to Indonesia, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and all over Europe. And I’ve gained some wonderful memories and experiences.

But somewhere along the way I got lost. I lost sense of myself and my purpose, and found myself struggling with depression and anxiety. When all else failed, I turned my attention inwards, and I found my world transformed.

I discovered a practice of presence, mindfulness and exploration that helps me to understand that there are things that I can control and things that I can’t control, and that by focusing on those things I can control, I can exert some influence over the things I can’t. By nurturing my inner world, my outer world became more vibrant, more textured, and new depths of being, seeing and understanding revealed themselves to me. 

On this blog, in my books, my podcast, on my Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, I share some of my ideas. But my main message is this:

Only when we are truly ourselves, can we live a life that is truly our own.

I’m on a journey to find out how we can shed everything that is ‘not’, to discover everything that ‘is’, and in the process overcome self doubt, realise my potential, and create a life I love. I hope you’ll join me, and explore what it is to be, and to be here now.

Best wishes,

Chris