Not many of us could have escaped the news about the death of Gary Speed a few months back. . Whilst the actual reasons for it are not known and may never be known, the consensus of public speculation seems to indicate that it was suicide because of depression. “What on earth could have he […]
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 […]
Firework night with all its traditions can be such fun for all the family. Even the sudden noise of the fireworks exploding seems to add to the magic of it all. Except of course if we are at home and it takes us by surprise! Then the sudden eruption of the fireworks going on, and […]
“Sometimes life can seem overwhelming, you turn left and there’s a problem, you turn right and there’s another. Often the way to get out of this is to NOT TRY and resolve the problem but change the context in which you experience it. Changing the context means that the problem no longer has the support […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
Interesting isn’t it that when we are little we think our parents are ‘all knowing’ ‘all seeing’ and ‘the centre of our – and the – world’ but by the time we reach secondary school, if not before, our parents become our perceived ‘jailers’ ‘our critics’. They are ‘out of touch’ ‘a joke’ and barely […]
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 […]
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