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 […]
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 […]
Having confidence or not all boils down to which of our internal chatterboxes wins. We have the negative one that say, “oh no – it’s going to be awful” “Everyone will think/does think I am stupid” etc. etc. but unless we all have some psychic ability how do we actually know what others think. Ah […]
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 […]
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