top of page


What is somatic therapy?
Discover how somatic therapy helps you process emotions through the body, not just the brain, with warmth, humour, and a gentler approach to healing.

Mark Franklin
Jul 152 min read


Our relationship with failure is a choice
Our relationship with failure is a choice – it is perspective based on a mixture of fact and/or emotion. Which do you choose?

Mark Franklin
Jun 242 min read


Nice guys don't finish last
My dad is testament (and the origin of my own belief) that nice guys don't finish last. Be kind. That has been his only rule in life.

Mark Franklin
May 271 min read


Playtime & the 'magic of its inefficiency'
A little taste of freedom and fun will make a massive difference to the energy you subsequently bring back to your desk, after 'playtime'.

Mark Franklin
Oct 21, 20242 min read


Clarity, bravery & serenity
Fittingly on Earth Day, this photo was taken exactly a year ago today, just days before I officially left the corporate world and started...

Mark Franklin
Apr 22, 20241 min read


It was a great gig... (men need to talk more)
This is one of the last photos of me and my best friend, Dan (we called him Tex).

Mark Franklin
Apr 17, 20241 min read


Be present
We recently enjoyed a long weekend away with our kids and our parents. It’s a springtime tradition we started nine years ago (when this...

Mark Franklin
Apr 8, 20241 min read
bottom of page