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 […]
I came across a great quote “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind won’t matter and those who matter won’t mind” . In my work as a Counsellor I am so often presented with so many illogical reasons why someone can’t just be themselves and usually it is because […]
It happened without any announcement. I was all set. I’d spent a long time getting to a place I was comfortable with. Me, my counselling clients and Skype were a good team. We were happy. We were productive. We could travel apart but come together. We knew we would journey together for the foreseeable future […]
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 […]
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 […]
Most years we all make resolutions that most of us don’t keep. Many of us often say “this year things are going to change”. However things don’t change. We do. If relationships etc are not going so well sometimes it isn’t just about changing them it is also figuring out what is going on with […]
Christmas you either love it or hate it. Isn’t it strange that the Christmas (and other holidays too) are both enjoyed and feared in equal measure. It is a time for families & celebrations and togetherness & sharing. But for some those very thoughts make them fearful or sad. As the World has opened up […]
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 […]
Good Stress is a little stress that motivates us. But when our imagination starts to a write pretty detailed and unhelpful (and usually unrealistic) scenarios it is Bad Stress. Our little demon of an imagination can conjure up some great catastrophes if we have already started to allow our emotional brain to take over. For […]
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