Parenting Part II: Issues and Themes that Parents Explore About Raising Children
In Part I we explored some of the things adults, children and young people talked about in the therapy room about family life. In this blog we explore some of the issues parents talk about, specifically, in regards to parenting, raising children and young people. Parents are faced with incredible dilemmas and challenging circumstances: social […]
Parenting Part I: What Adults, Children and Young People Say About Parenting
Children, young people and adults explore many issues in the therapy room and they sometimes talk about parenting styles. In this article I look at some of the subjects, themes and issues that come up that I hope will generate learning and reflection for parents who are raising children and young people and also for […]
Gratitude
Gratitude is the key to creating a better life… I started experimenting with gratitude practices many years ago and one of the things I noticed was that I was noticing a change in feelings of happiness and that the more I focused on the positive in my life the more I manifested it. It takes […]
Inner Child Work
Sometimes in healing work old wounds from childhood come up. They can manifest as deep self-hatred, depression, self-criticism, anger and trauma memories. Sometimes they may appear as externalised criticism to loved ones around us. We may have addiction issues that try to soothe old pains and memories. We may be very difficult to be around […]
Grief and Loss – An Exploration of Awareness and Being
Our loved ones of this world are eventually taken from us or we from them. In that moment a huge surge of energy in the emotional system is felt and realised – grief, a natural human response to loss. Being physically connected to someone through familiarity and for a long time can be hard in […]