Your Story
- If I asked you to tell me your life story, what would you tell me?
- Which bits would you leave out? Which bits would you embellish? What would you add in?
Autobiography is the art of telling your story, of fictionalizing the truth, because the very act of writing means we are putting experiences into … Read more
Celebrating the menopause
I’ve just started my period.
Is that too much information?
You see, the thing is, I’m really pleased to have started my period because I’m getting to ‘that age’, the age where soon I won’t be having periods, but where I might soon be having hot sweats, insomnia, headaches, lapses of memory, mood swings, loss … Read more
Can you feel what I feel? Emotional contagion
Ever wondered why it is you can feel what another person is feeling? I was trying to work it out after that amazing gestalt session with John Leary-Joyce.
After the session, people came up to me and reported feeling the same thing in their body at the same time as I was feeling it … Read more
Men and Women – Our Achilles Heels
I want to share a long held belief with you about men and women to see what you think.
I think that men and women have unconscious beliefs which hold us back from being authentically us.
Transactional Analysis uses the concept of Driver Behaviours, which are unconscious behaviours which sometimes serve us and sometimes don’t.… Read more
Compassion not solutions
I’m a problem solver. In fact, I like to think I’m pretty good at finding solutions. I even felt proud of this part of my character..until this week when I have started to think again.
My mum died 15 years ago on the 19th Jan. There are still moments when I feel flayed by her … Read more
Conflict and the Drama Triangle
I’ve been watching following this week’s debate: ‘to war or not to war with Syria’, on Radio 4 as I drive and despairing. Haven’t they heard of the the Drama Triangle by Steve Karpman?
Here is the Drama Triangle which is how Steve Karpman describes the psychological games we play that lead to conflict and … Read more