With the new year very much underway, this can be a time that we can experience overwhelm and anxiety, as we feel the jolt of our daily life routine, against the relaxed mode of the summer holidays just past.
This short post is designed to give you the basic elements of grounding, as a first step to coming into present moment awareness.
Read MoreStarting and even going back to school can be big time for the little people in our lives. Equally it can be a big time for us as their parents.
This article is designed to help you know how to support our children through this school transition.
Read MoreThis is a fabulous video that explains what psychotherapy is and how it can help us discover greater ease in life.
Read MoreOpening the doors to 'therapy gold'...
Whether you are new to therapy or not, sometimes it can be hard to know how to get the best out of the therapy experience. This article is designed to help make that path a little bit easier. Here are some tips...
Deciding to work with a therapist is often a big decision ...
And then once the decision has made to seek help, it can be a daunting task to find a therapist that is right for you.
In this article, we identify seven steps to help you find the therapist that is more likely to meet your needs.
Read MoreThinking of the generations of mothers... past, present and future... on this mother's day ....
buttered toast and clothes warmed by the fire on a winter’s morning
the pain of adolescence felt
the posy of flowers at my bedside as I nurse a broken heart
long distance phone calls to share news of adventures
Read MoreRegardless of the type of relationship, if we want it to work we have to put the time in.
The more we 'show up', the more we get out of the experience.
But what does 'showing up' really mean?
Read MoreMore than two years ago my father died. His death was the long slow decline of old age. It was as if over time his body gradually stopped working. Over the years and months, we sat with him, shared stories with him, cared for him as the end came closer.
He planned his funeral nominating music and the party that would follow. We talked about how he wanted Mum to be looked after.
But we never talked about how much we would miss each other. Instead we argued!
Read MoreAs a working mother, there are frequently moments when I feel stretched. Whilst I have the privilege of running my own business and within that dictating my own hours, life doesn’t always go to plan.
The question I often sit with is…”how do I make all of this work and still feel whole?” And at the end of the day, I am struck by it all coming down to the quality of the moments throughout the busyness of life.
Read MoreSo I lost my nerve with my writing. It has been months since I have pondered my experience of the world on the page. Something about ‘that is not how it is done’ became a bigger voice than I could battle. So rather than battling, I let it have its rein for a while. I sat with it, I wondered and I discovered a little wounded part of self, who believed she was never good enough. We became friends, we played games, and rather than trying to convince each other who was right and who was wrong, we eventually chose to accept one another for all of the messiness and the incompleteness that we are.
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