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Easter is about forgiveness – isn’t it?

For some forgiveness is easy but for others it is not.   Abuse, neglect, abandonment, cruetly etc. etc, especially if they happen to a vulnerable child are sometimes hard to overcome. But arn’t we meant to fogive these actions in order to get on with our lives? I would suggest that sometimes it is just not possible to forgive […]

April 9, 2012 in Addiction, Anger, Counselling, Psychotherapy, Relationships, Uncategorized by

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You Feel Stuck – Because?

It is very difficult sometimes to know where to start when we realise that we need to make some lifestyle changes.   Shall we attempt to climb the steep mountain in front of us even though our energy levels are very low?  Shall we ask others to change for us so we don’t have to attempt it?  […]

March 23, 2012 in Addiction, Anger, Counselling, Depression, Psychotherapy, Relationships by

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Drinking can be Fun – Drunkeness isn’t!!

February 22, 2012 in Addiction, Anger, Counselling, Depression, Psychotherapy, Relationships by

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Amy now Whitney – Why?

Yet another brilliant singer who, to the outside world, would seem to have had it all but yet has self-destructed.  As to the why – if that was easy for them to answer then it would possibly have saved them and others like them who are  in the grip of addiction. My view, if a counsellor is allowed […]

February 18, 2012 in Addiction, Counselling, Psychotherapy by

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Do you know you are unhappy?

This might seem like a strange question to ask but experience tells me that a lot of people just muddle through life, often acquiring really unhealthy habits, because they can feel something isn’t right in their World but feel the effort involved in trying to sort how they feel out would be just too much […]

December 9, 2011 in Addiction, Anger, Depression by

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Are bank holidays all they are cracked up to be?

Having just had another bank holiday each of us will have our own view as to how it was for us.  I wonder if you were a “survivor and glad it’s over” type of person or a “great to have some extra time with people or things that I enjoy” one.  A bit like school […]

September 1, 2011 in Addiction, Counselling, Depression, News, Psychotherapy, Relationships by

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Confidence and the Internal chatterbox

Having confidence or not all boils down to which of our internal chatterboxes wins.  We have the negative one that say, “oh no – it’s going to be awful”  “Everyone will think/does think I am stupid” etc. etc.  but unless we all have some psychic ability how do we actually know what others think.    Ah […]

August 21, 2011 in Addiction, Counselling, Psychotherapy, Relationships by

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Hoarding – Another addiction

I watched a great documentary the other evening regarding a daughters struggle with her mother’s addiction to hoarding.   To me, it gave a very balanced view of the mental torment an addiction can have on both the addicted person themselves and the family members.  We often think that issues we have are our own and […]

August 18, 2011 in Addiction, Counselling, Depression, Psychotherapy, Relationships by

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Workaholics – to holiday or not holiday

Bizarrely since my last blog regarding getting a life balance my eye has been drawn to a few articles discussing whether holidays are good or bad for you.  My view is that a holiday or break away gives you the opportunity to recharge your batteries, to change focus and to operate on a personal instead of […]

August 15, 2011 in Addiction, Counselling, News, Psychotherapy, Relationships by

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Who are we really- the child, the parent or the adult?

I used to find it quite strange the amount of people that I meet who really have no sense of who they really are.  Now I just take it as part of the rich tapestry of life that many people never make it from child to adult before they become a parent and but unless […]

August 13, 2011 in Addiction, Anger, Counselling, Depression, Relationships by

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