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 famous passage on what he understood to be a good life: CARL ROGERS – THE GOOD LIFE 1961 “I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of […]
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 mind. The nature of love even eludes the French mind. Blaise Pascal sensed this centuries ago when he wrote The heart has its reasons whereof reason knows nothing. He could not know it at the time but nowadays we do now know that the neural […]