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 […]
We all find big decisions concerning (they wouldn’t be big decisions if they weren’t) and gearing up as a young adult to get the best possible start to the rest of our lives sounds a pretty responsible thing to do. However, when the pressure we, and others, put on ourselves to ‘get it right first […]
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 […]
I first saw this movie when it came out in 1976. At that time it was sad but I hadn’t “lost” then so like a lot of what we see and hear it didn’t resonate. This version depicts a great love and a family torn apart by addiction and this certainly resonated as I know […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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