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I’m on a voyage of discovery with new words at the moment, the one I want to blog about today is velleity. The dictionary definition is...

“We must have the courage to live with paradox. The strength to hold the tension of not knowing the answers and the willingness to...

Where you look at a situation from significantly changes your perspective. In neuro-lingistic programming, we describe the different...

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’ve been noticing of late the tendency for people to attribute the source of pain and suffering to be outside of themselves. It may be...

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,...

I was asked recently for some tips about coping when your feelings feel too big to manage. Thankfully, there are so many ways to...

You might think this an odd question, it’s certainly a complex one. We each hold many, many beliefs about the world, some of them may...

I’ve been reminded several times in recent weeks of the power of working with the structure of the way we ‘hold’ experiences, rather than...

I am delighted to have recently trained in the NLPt (neuro-linguistic programming psychotherapy) Trauma Protocol, which provides an...

Today I want to celebrate a much commented on Orchid which sits in my office. Clients often notice it and comment on it. It flowers so...

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

“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 been using this affirmation of late to remind myself that whatever it is that I am experiencing is not ‘mine’ and it’s not stuck. ...

Congruence matters. That sense of rightness that you feel in your body that lets you know that what you are doing is aligned with what...

One of the most useful metaphors I have for the brain is to consider it as a road network. There are some thinking patterns that are...

We’re not always in touch with all of the capability, wisdom and resourcefulness we have inside. While we are all multi-faceted, it's...

Discovering unconscious patterns I was teaching at Bishop Auckland College last week, introducing some concepts from Neuro-Linguistic...

Today I wanted to reflect on the concept of ecology, which is used in neuro-linguistic programming to check out the congruence of a...