November 29, 2016
I’ve had better Mondays. After a disappointment came a cancellation, then another one. Sometimes people are just too busy to get better. Rolling around a conversation from my own therapy that morning (it’s part of ethical practice to make sure we therapists sort out our own heads to avoid any possibility of us doing so […]
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November 26, 2016
I made a deal with myself which I started regretting almost immediately. Back in May, as the days started to dwindle away I thought about giving myself some sort of task or objective to complete in June. I have often found that setting myself small challenges helps me to achieve things I would otherwise have […]
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November 19, 2016
Listening to the radio last weekend a programme caught my ear. “Mark Watson’s Inner Child” was a light hearted documentary on the rising tide of “kidult” activities and the companies who peddle them, encouraging adults to get in touch with their inner child. I listened with a slight sense of incredulity accompanied by the notion […]
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November 12, 2016
In the poem “For A Far Out Friend” writer Gary Snyder references “Devas”, beings of greater power and bliss than can be found in humanity. We seem to find it hard to achieve much bliss at times, in the tumult of everyday existence, and even a moderate level of happiness and contentment can be elusive when […]
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November 5, 2016
I have writers block, whatever that is. I knew it would happen, that one week I would be lost for something to write but that I would simultaneously feel the need to keep going anyway. Gazing out of the window I wonder why that man always parks his black Mercedes outside my house, and I […]
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