MONTHLY BLOG SIX APRIL 2024 Addiction Last month’s blog referred to addiction so perhaps more information may be of help in understanding it. Addiction is a complex phenomenon that involves both psychological and biological factors. It is a progressive disorder characterized by compelling and repetitive engagement in a substance or behaviour, despite negative consequences. So, individuals with addiction may use […]
MONTHLY BLOG FIVE – MARCH 2024 LOST CONNECTIONS In this month’s blog I want to try to define how as a society we have evolved, but in doing so we have become more anxious and depressed. We seem to have lost connection with some of the ingredients of a confident, healthy community. Many people deal […]
MONTHLY BLOG FOUR – FEBRUARY 2024 BEREAVEMENT This subject naturally follows from ‘overcoming heartache.’ The loss of a loved one is the common factor in both and clients often compare the two. Perhaps the most accurate description of both is a crippling psychological, physical, social, financial, and often demographic change. A change in who we […]
MONTHLY BLOG THREE – JANUARY 2024 OVERCOMING HEARTACHE Romanticism is everywhere around the Christmas and New Year period. It is present everywhere - on screen and in print. Many of us grow up believing this is the ideal. I have also heard that sexual attraction is God’s way of complicating this further to ensure the […]
MONTHLY BLOG ONE – NOVEMBER 2023 THE GOOD LIFE Welcome to this website and this monthly blog. I am a person-centred counsellor and supervisor, but this blog is for both clients and fellow counsellors. I chose my website address for a specific reason i.e., the founder/father of person-centred counselling, Carl Rogers PhD, wrote a now […]
MONTHLY BLOG TWO - DECEMBER 2023 LOVE IS…… Years ago a daily newspaper ran a cartoon on this topic. It always had a grain of truth in its observations. These days I think I understand why love is so difficult to define. Definitions elude us precisely because love is not a function of the reasoning […]