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I’ve recently been reading Daniel Brown and David Elliott’s work about attachment difficulties, which focuses on how to help adults who...

It's more years since I care to remember since I first came across the idea of Character Strengths, back then I was working in the...

As I wish you a wonderful weekend I wanted to share a blessing, this one an extract from John O’Donohue’s poem Blessing, which he wrote...

A colleague described beautifully to me the other day the power of unspoken communication in families. You know…the looks. The sighs. ...

Anger is an unpopular emotion, and frankly it gets quite a bad press. The caricature of an angry person is red faced, steam coming out...

I could get all sciency and talk about 20 seconds of physical contact causing the participants to release oxytocin (the love hormone),...

Today is thought to be Blue Monday, the combination of short days, poor weather and the aftermath of the festive season with the distance...

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...

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore What...

Here we are, another festive season over, and the winter ahead of us. The Christmas lights are coming down. For many people the coming...

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

“Trauma represents a profound compression of “survival” energy, energy that has not been able to complete its meaningful course of...

“Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the...

Today is my last working day of 2021. I wish you all well for the festive season and the turning of the year. May your mid-winter be a...

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

I wrote this poem this time last year. So much has changed, as always, life will never be the same, it never is. I hope you enjoy the...

If you have the mid-winter blues this article I helped #UKCP with may be of interest. https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/news/how-to-cope-w...

As you prepare for 2022, it’s a good time to reflect on both the year past and the year to come. Here’s an article I wrote for #UKCP...

This wonderful John O’Donohue poem has popped into my awareness a few times in recent weeks, I wanted to share it for all those who may...

People are generally familiar with the idea that when someone dies, we grieve. There are many ways of describing the process grief might...