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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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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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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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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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Work life balance – Another addiction

Does it exists?  It is now the weekend and how many us will stop and “smell the roses”?  I am sure a few will having learnt perhaps the hard way that to be truly ourselves and to get the very best out of our lives it is our essential for ourselves.   However for some is […]

August 12, 2011 in Addiction, Counselling, Depression, Psychotherapy, Relationships by

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Feeling stuck?

February 27, 2011 in Counselling, Depression by

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Feeling Down?

February 27, 2011 in Depression by

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