Tag: counselling
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Unconscious Bias
How do you react when you meet people? Do you make presumptions? Draw conclusions? Judge? Is your reaction affected by peoples age, skin colour, ethnicity, height, gender, the way they dress, etc? The answer is YES! Very much so. In fact research now shows that our reactions and therefore our behaviours and decisions are affected…
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Counselling – a personal journey
In 2008 Amy Law-Smith started training on a Counselling Skills course and loved it! She knew that counselling was what she wanted to do though, at the time, Amy’s lack of self-belief and trust resulted in her not fully stepping onto the counselling path until some five years later in 2013. Instead she trained as…
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Living with the challenges of dementia
Dementia is becoming an increasing challenge, not only for many older people, but also for their close family and friends. It is particularly challenging for family members who find themselves in the role of carer or needing to support a parent or spouse with the illness. If you find yourself in such a role you…
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Acknowledging emotional issues
Most of us probably have some emotional issues, or sensitivities, from childhood and these can be triggered in our intimate relationships. While most parents do the best they can, they cannot be perfect. While that may sound negative, and can cause lots of problems in relationships, it is also potentially positive because when we can…
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Getting along despite our differences
Over the last few weeks and months I have noticed how much material is in the media about how human beings struggle with others being different from themselves. When I turn on the TV I see this in documentaries about the holocaust, in reality television shows, and all the time within the news. It is…
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The importance of your psychological shadow
We all have a psychological ‘shadow’. By this I mean those parts of us which we hide, deny or repress. Sometimes we may be aware of our shadow though much of the time we hide it, even from ourselves. However it is vital that we try and get to know our shadow, or at least…
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Are childish adults too emotional?
There’s a common idea that when we become adults we must be independent and rational. We must not behave ‘childishly’ by needing others too much or being too emotional. But how nice it would be, as adults, if we were able to receive the empathy that many children get! If a child is extremely anxious…
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Make your brain bushier!
What are the priorities in your life? Wellbeing, Health, Wealth, Happiness, Family, Friends, Work, Hobbies? Do you prioritise the things that are important to you? Are they the things you spend most time and effort on? How has 2014 been for you? A good year? Mixed? Not so good? Was this a year that you…