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

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...

Oh dear, it’s well and truly winter. The season of hunkering down and withdrawing within while the winds howl, the temperatures drop,...

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just to take the first step” Martin Luther King I love this quote, it speaks eloquently of...

I’ve made a few changes in my office lately, increasing my level of physical comfort when I am working. I’m noticing a significant...

“The fear of receiving resonates in the deepest levels of the psyche. To receive is to let life happen, to open to grief and loss, to...

It is a paradox of being human that while so, so much is common to us all, our experience of life is unique. There are no two people who...

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...

Happy Samhain! According to Pagan tradition, today we celebrate the ending of the summer and look forward to the coming winter. ...

“If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.” Marion Woodman...

“Recognising the difference between power and love is difficult if we were raised in a home where power was disguised as love” Marion...

“The greatest changes stem from the darkest experiences. We fall apart to become new. We go through the dark to fly to the sun” Matt...

I created this blog in collaboration with #UKCP a few weeks ago to take a look at the impact of bullying and our collective...

My inspiration this weekend is Mary Oliver’s The Journey. Wishing you a weekend enlivened and uplifted by your own journeying. One day...

Today I want to talk about dissociation, and ways of supporting yourself in coming back into connection when you feel you have detached....

I remember coming across the idea of your heart smiling in Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat, Pray, Love, at the time it really lit me up. ...

I had an interesting insight the other day as I spotted an old pattern that had popped up and taken root unnoticed. Sitting with a...

Now we're into September, families country-wide will be back into the rhythm of school and working weeks after the different pace of the...

I’m deeply reflective at the moment about the interactive dance that is a therapeutic relationship. Clients come, bringing with them...

I watched Hannah Gadesby’s show Douglas recently, and along with the many, many laughs she provoked, she spoke of a truth that resonated...