The Huge Bag of Worries has been a firm favourite of mine for years, and I imagine is in many counselling toolkits. It follows a girl who ends up with…
You know when you are loaded with cold; snotty, shivering and your head is banging? You stand in the bathroom mirror trying to decide whether you should push yourself and…
How can thinking of one word make difference in counselling, parenting, or facing anyone in an emotional state? In one my one counselling roles I was asked to record my…
Unless we are stressed we are not trying. Unless we are sweating we are not working hard enough. Unless we are working outside of office hours we are not doing…
Did you make a New year's resolution? Or a general goal? How is that going? Hopefully well, but maybe you have already eaten the extra chocolates, skipped the day at…
We go through certain stages in life: child, adolescence, young adult, adult, old age. Each stage comes with its own focus and transition between stages, a learning curve and change.…
It's the new school year. Fresh books, shiny shoes and good intentions. Teachers with new lesson plans and renewed passion, students with motivation and goals, and parents with determination and…
So many times in a first session with a client, they apologise for wasting my time or prefix their feeling with the words: "I know I'm being silly but..." or…
I had an amazing weekend recently. The plan had been to go away but we were unable to book what we wanted. We decided to take that money and spend…
This is always a strange time of year in schools; exams for years 10, 11, 12 and 13 and saying goodbye to most year 11s and all 13s. Stress, anxiety,…
