Once would expect at a certain time of life that challenges with difficult people would either no longer bother us, or we’d be well versed in dealing/working with them. However, I’m finding even today, where I can pick and chose clients, friends and colleagues that that is not always so! [...]
In a group conversation this week, we used a lot of metaphors to describe where we felt we stood at present. I used a phrase from Leonard Cohen’s poem/song Atheum ‘There’s a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. I feel, I’m beginning to see the [...]
The title of this piece is a paraphrase of what Rick Steiner, PhD says, which is ‘Plans are ‘hopes’ waiting to happen’. Right now, your dreams may be small and generous, such as hoping /praying that the predictions for deaths in this pandemic are wrong, that there will be a [...]
Changes are happening day by day in these challenging times. How are you doing? Me, I have had a couple of days where I had slight meltdowns, panic as clients pull out of contracts, worried about their financial health, or feeling that they just aren’t able to focus on issues [...]
Fear of: Not being brave, or of being timid; violence or being dismissed, ignored or laughed at. Being seen as of little worth or not interesting to those you want to like you. What about fear of being invisible or being alone, judged as a bad parent? Or in your [...]
Happy New Year and Welcome 2020! If you are among the many of us that made resolutions this New Year, how are you feeling about them now, a few days into 2020? What are your resolutions and why are they important to you? Too many people declare that they are [...]
This is a different blog to the one I was going to write. I began to write about the rush to purchase gifts for all and sundry, purchases made because we need to, ‘it’s expected’. Gifts purchased without much thought about who that person may be, what would they love, [...]
Recently I had the opportunity to meet a number of people I’ve only met and worked with online. It was interesting. If we think of people having different facets, on-line shows perhaps only 50 % of a person’s personality, like photographs it’s one sided. And so, when we meet in [...]
Do you ever carry stories from childhood with you? How many times have you listened to someone tell you something negative about yourself and then adopted it, and repeated it through that inner voice in your head…. 'You eat too much, you’re not pretty, you’re not very smart, or girls [...]
Did I make you stop? Did my headline stop you in your tracks? Death is a funny thing, it's inevitable. And, as someone once said, we're not getting out of here alive, however many of us find it hard to talk about. I don't have a problem talking about my [...]
