What if – confession caused depression?
I was talking to a friend who was brought up in a very catholic community. He was telling me that many of his school friends suffered from depression and/or addiction of some kind (particularly to alcohol). Which got me thinking about why that should be.
What would it be like to go to church every … Read more
Give yourself Positive Strokes (???!!)
I’m loving my work at the moment; teaching people I like things that I’m really interested in and having time to write and coach too. I feel very lucky and it’s good to be able to appreciate it. For example, the other week I did some training on Transactional Analysis with a great bunch of … Read more
Stressed Kids
Last year I was convinced that Eldest Son was hormonal and that puberty had hit us age 12. He was bad tempered, moany, grumpy and uncooperative. Doors were slamming and little brother sometimes came off worse in a ‘play’ fight.
Then we had the summer holidays and I had a different son. He and his … Read more
Chunking
This is a blog to thank Susan for reminding me of what I knew and had forgotten – doh!
Chunking.
Chunking is a concept from Neuro Linguistic Programming to help us get things done.
Chunking up is when we make the job, challenge, concept or task bigger by combing it or exaggerating it in order … Read more
We all need to be held
We have a puppy. It’s like having a new baby. We’re getting up in the night to let him out and he needs carrying when we go out as he hasn’t had his jabs yet.
Here he is inspiring me to write this. He could of course sit on the floor as I write, but … Read more
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