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Your heart’s desire lights you up in your body.  It comes from inside.  It connects you to your purpose in the world. Powerful words,...

Uncomfortable conversations are OK. Emotions are OK. Real matters. I wrote these three notes to myself a few days ago to remind me that I...

I took part in some training a short while ago that finished with the wonderful invitation to be fluid, and imperfect. The trainer was...

I opened Matt Haig’s Comfort Book today, and read a beautiful short passage about ‘The Discomfort Zone.’ You know the one, the place...

There are so many times when you hear 'positive thinking' being used as a way to shut out, minimise, deny or avoid uncomfortable truths. ...

In both couples and individual psychotherapy, a common theme in the way clients present is that there is much they want to say in their...

"There is a genius that can be found only in our coming together, and it's our combined abilities that elevate and strengthen us. True...

Do you say yes when you feel maybe, or even no? Or does it take a resounding inner YESSSSS for you to decide something is right for you?...

I often say I like contact with other people to be real. A few weeks ago, someone curiously asked, what does real mean to me? It was an...

I had the pleasure of delivering a workshop recently with some Counselling degree students at Bishop Auckland College. I went to talk to...

I’ve been looking out of my therapy room window, noticing the increasingly long grass of my newly laid lawn. I’ve read so many...