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 […]
Feeling fragile today? Had a bit too much of a ‘Great’ weekend? What made it ‘Great’? Can you remember it even? If you find yourself feeling a little ‘rough’ on rare occasions, then I get it. Sometimes we just need to blow off a little steam and although it might not be very PC for […]
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 […]
There are a number of reasons why we use food as a coping mechanism: To fit in and feel accepted An subconscious plea for others to see our internal pain without speaking the words An subconscious plan for us to be invisible so that we won’t be ‘seen’ and the hurt prolonged To feel 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 […]
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 […]
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