This isn’t a new issue and sadly I don’t think by having a Day to highlight it, it will be the last. Perpetrators of violence against women probably won’t even be aware that we are coming for them. As a counsellor I have the greatest respect for a past abuser who realises it is wrong […]
Every day people are silently (and not so silently) fighting a Battle. A Battle against homelessness, a Battle against drugs, a Battle against alcohol, a Battle against pain – emotional as well as physical, a Battle against poverty. These Battles may not be so well known as the bigger Battles carried out by Country against […]
Good Stress is a little stress that motivates us. But when our imagination starts to a write pretty detailed and unhelpful (and usually unrealistic) scenarios it is Bad Stress. Our little demon of an imagination can conjure up some great catastrophes if we have already started to allow our emotional brain to take over. For […]
This YouTube video puts a realistic argument forward as to why people slide into addiction and how we, as society, help play a part in that – interesting reading! https://youtu.be/ao8L-0nSYzg
I believe that Counselling is about empowering people and as it’s World Book Day I would like to help that process by make the following reading recommendations. This isn’t an exhaustive list as I am continually learning and updating from such wonderful authors as these. These book recommendations are light, often funny reads which are also most […]
Online Counselling – what is it and why do it? We live in a transient time when, if you want it, the World can be our oyster but just because some of us seize that opportunity it doesn’t always mean that the journey is smooth. Because it is a transient World we can often feel isolated when we are […]
Wow. We now have a special day to make “#time to talk”. But as one of the complaints I hear from clients is “I find it difficult to talk” or “he/she won’t talk to me” if we now let ourselves off the hook by providing a special day for letting others know how we feel – […]
It’s here again – that time when some of us feel compelled to make Changes. A New Year seems to hypnotise us into making new resolutions to stop eating so much, stop drinking so much, find a better job, find a better relationship, stop gambling etc. etc. But unless we are 100% committed to making changes […]
Borderline Personality Disorder is quite a destroyer of people and families if left undiagnosed and untreated. It is great that mental health has been highlighted so prominently in recent months that more people are questioning what they are going through. However in some areas diagnosis takes quite a long time and even with that there […]
I am not sure if there are any statistics about how parcels will be delivered between now and Christmas but I do know that many more people have shopped online this year presumably, if they are anything like me, they work late hours and/or are desperate to avoid the inevitable long queues in stuffy shops. […]
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