Emotional Wellbeing

For mothers out there, help is often welcome and there is a vast array of resources dedicated to this need, and people with far more appropriate experience than I to offer.

I want to dedicate this article to fathers, and to bring some avenue of knowledge and experience, opening up for discussions to the men who are new to parenthood, and for whom, in my experience there is an expectation to just get on with it because during the pregnancy and childbirth the mother took all the inconvenience and pain (true enough) … therefore men… you just need to just get on with it! [Read more…]

Where are you going?

What are you aiming for?

Will you be happy then? [Read more…]

‘Need’? Well, not exactly necessary for some. Nice to have perhaps? A requirement for others? For sure!

For those who are unsure, the benefits can be found without waiting to be emotionally or mentally overwhelmed. Yet most do exactly that!

You can benefit from counselling guidance and coaching regardless of your emotional stability at any given time. To be listened to, in a private and confidential setting, by someone who is impartial, yet skilled as a professional listener (it’s harder than you think to really listen!) and who will leave judgements outside of your session opens up all kinds of possibilities to unpack and discover a journey into the real you and, if something in your life can be improved upon, to provide a strategy for this.

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As with any human condition it is highly important to rule out medical reasons for an existing or recurring condition for our eating, where appropriate, as much as these can be diagnosed accurately. [Read more…]

Mindfulness is one of the easiest models of behaviour to adopt, being useful both inside therapy sessions and helpfully, in your life generally. When you are living life, as we often do, on autopilot – moving from one task to the next, without any great thought (mindlessly) – we start to pre-empt our next task, meeting, meal or whatever. [Read more…]

Do you ask for help? It’s all very well asking for help, but then I’m admitting:

• Others can cope
• Others are smarter
• I’ve failed
• I’m less than

Really? And what if any of the above was true? Might any of those statements be permanent? [Read more…]

Who do you see?

When you look in the mirror, who do you see?

Do you see the role you play at work, the boss, the employee… your title? And if so, what happens if you lose that title, who do you see then?  [Read more…]

A short video introducing me and Anglia Counselling – and the emotive subject of Bereavement  [Read more…]

Some of the most important words I ever embedded into my life are “It will pass”. And so ‘it’ did! Ask yourself: [Read more…]

Is ignorance acceptable?

If you are a colleague or particularly a manager/leader – ignorance of mental health challenges which affect us all is only acceptable in my view to the point that it touches you in some way and your awareness is created and you commit to learning about the subject. [Read more…]