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Do you feel you are good enough?  Adequate?  Sufficient?  Acceptable and loveable as you are? If you are not feeling enough, you are not...

An elderly Cherokee was imparting wisdom to his grandson about life. "There's a battle within me," he told the boy, "a fierce clash...

Happiness comes in many guises – on the one hand you’ve got the hedonistic delight of eating your favourite chocolate, on the other is...

I. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever...

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are” Carl Jung As I reach mid-life and the transition into elderhood, it seems to...

In therapeutic work we are addressing the individual and unique expressions that a person has. At the same time, we are working with...

I had a lesson in transience this week…my gorgeous big cat Jasper accidentally knocked a mug tree off the kitchen bench, and gone were a...

Sometimes it can be hard to discern how we are changing. We tend to think of ourselves as fixed, consistent beings who are steady...

I’ve had a number of experiences recently where I have found myself doing things that were way out of my previous comfort zone. I’m...

I’ve had a number of experiences recently where I have found myself doing things that were way out of my previous comfort zone. I’m...

“The rational mind is a servant. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift. We have created a society that honours the servant and has...

Learning to listen to your intuitive wisdom is an important skill that can help you to make good, congruent decisions in your life. When...

I’m currently reading the beautiful book Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli. It’s quite a read, exploring the current thinking around quantum...

I have a big patch of clover in my back garden. It’s quite prominent, and just now it’s beginning to flower. Beautiful. The thing is,...

Today I want to reflect on a distinction we can make in the way we hold and talk about others, or about aspects of our own self. We talk...

It’s the natural way of things that most people coming into psychotherapy are not feeling emotionally balanced. They may have suffered a...

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

I had the pleasure of teaching an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Introduction to a small group of local Counselling Degree students...

Whatever you do, don't pull yourself together. Don't pull yourself at all. Being pulled is seldom a nice experience. Add the edge of an...

We all have habitual ways of behaving. They are comfortable and normal, and mostly they are not even on our radar, we just act and speak...