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Practical psychology for health and happiness. Owned/Edited by clinical psychologist and writer Karen Nimmo.

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Take the Road Less Traveled to Enrich Your Life. It Works.

When your days are blurring into greyscale

4 min readJun 3, 2025

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Photo: Author, Wairarapa, New Zealand

Feel bored?

Like you’re just plodding down the same road as everyone else, with pretty much the same results?

Research suggests we’re getting more bored, despite the endless reams of entertainment just a click away on our phones.

Maybe that’s the reason? Our scrolling entertains — even fascinates — us, but it doesn’t move the needle on our lives.

So after a while the days blur into greyscale.

Is that what you want?

Life’s difficult…

“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.” — Scott Peck

It was those words, and a few thousand others, that made Peck’s book The Road Less Traveled a mega-hit.

The book became the anthem of the committed individualist, of every rebel who has ever walked outside the mainstream.

It celebrates the courage of making the difficult, unpopular choice, of eschewing convention and truly…

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On The Couch
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Practical psychology for health and happiness. Owned/Edited by clinical psychologist and writer Karen Nimmo.

Karen Nimmo
Karen Nimmo

Written by Karen Nimmo

Clinical psychologist, author of 4 books. Editor of On the Couch: Practical psychology for health and happiness. karen@onthecouch.co.nz

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