In some areas it would seem so. In general business it would not make sense to produce a product or service that we think is great but the customers don’t. Most successful businesses would do lots of market research to see what their proposed customer base wanted before investing resources. So why then does it […]
Have you ever paid attention to the narrative you tell yourself? I’m too fat; I’m not good at relationships; No one really likes me; I’m rubbish at…; I’m boring; I’ve got to be the best; Everyone is cleaver than I; etc. etc. Some of these things may be true but if we go around telling ourselves them constantly and also […]
The return to sunshine and lighter, longer days is usually an uplifting thing. We feel more hopeful, more alive than those dark days of winter. We want to renew and refresh our homes and sometimes our lives. However for some of us we don’t feel that renewed energy – we just feel worse that we […]
One of the hardest thing in the World is to watch (The Concerned) someone (The Addicted) destroy themselves – little by little. The method of their destruction is in fact not so important as the fact that they are hurting so much inside (even if they don’t actually realise it) that they do so. Therefore, […]
Usually we just accept that things are ‘just the way they are’ and in particular ‘I am just the way I am’. But usually we haven’t given much thought to this particular way of being – it is just how it is. Until……..things start to go wrong, really wrong and we can’t seem to make […]
Most of us instantly see Mothers Day as a day for celebrating and thanking our mums for looking after us and doing the best they could for us during our lives. However by definition the noun Mother is “a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth” and for […]
Everywhere we turn we are faced with signs asking us to Quit Smoking. There is a national campaign to provide smokers with all the evidence to persuade them that smoking is bad for their health and to cease in their own best interests and we have large scale offerings of how to do that. We […]
I am still surprised how by just talking about a worry can make the World a nicer place for us to be. It also never ceases to frustrate me how we are still are so backward about coming forward if we have some emotional sadness that we haven’t overcome. If we have a physical ailment […]
Anger is a basic emotion that we are born with. It can be both a good and a bad thing. It can be indiscriminate fireworks or a cancerous bundle of resentment. Anger in its pure form can be something that can empower us to do something and make changes. However, depending on how much we […]
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 […]
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