February 25, 2017
A while ago a question posed on Quora caught my eye. “How can I stop being average?”. In answering it I began to think that this is probably a question many of us ask in one way or another much more regularly than we might think. The notion that “average” is something to aspire to […]
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February 13, 2017
This week my daughter and I were discussing a piece of English homework. She had been tasked with writing an essay comparing the use of power in two poems. As a sucker for poetry I asked her which poems she had chosen and said that I would read them while she was at school so […]
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February 4, 2017
Last week I had a dream. It was short and it was vivid, but its message wasn’t immediately clear. I dreamed that I was keeping a body in the cellar. Apparently nobody knew it was there but me. What surprised me was my sense of calm and the complete absence of panic about my secret being […]
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January 28, 2017
“I want to do it, but I don’t trust myself to get it right”. It’s a phrase most of us have used at one time or another and one I hear on most days in one way or another. The immobility caused by a fear of failure or the desperate need to sustain success is […]
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January 15, 2017
This week I was reminded, as I so often am, of something psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung once said, “who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”. A client she is telling me about how depressed she feels all the time, and how life seems to hold no joy. Soon afterwards she is describing a friend […]
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