“Trust Your Feelings” this is something we hear a lot and as a counsellor you might think I’d agree. And I do. But also, I don’t! I’ve worked with people long enough to know it’s not as straight forward as that. Life is a contradiction. So here I set out my way of working with […]
I’d just got home from work and it came on in a flash. I couldn’t breathe and my heart was beating so hard it hurt. My legs were shaking and all I wanted to do was run. But I didn’t run because I knew what it was. It had been happening for weeks. Every time […]
I had the chance to go on a trip to Hong Kong recently. Amazing! You might be thinking. I wasn’t so sure. I had no time to plan and it was way out of my comfort zone – I’d barely got my head around it by the time we were on the plane. Part of […]
My friend’s cat, Tilly, had kittens yesterday. I was there to enjoy it all – a beautiful event. Mum and all four babies are fine and well but I couldn’t say the same for my friend. She was anxious before, during and after the birth, so I went round to see her this morning. She […]
A few years ago I made a plan with my good friend Lisa to try a holiday with a difference; cycling across Spain on the ‘Camino’- an old pilgrim’s route from the south of France to Santiago. It sounded amazing to the bike-loving, sun-worshiping, free-spirited part of me. It also made me sick with fear. […]