One of my clients, who wasn’t willing to accept that it was how she was thinking about things that was the biggest player in the game, shouted at me in frustration “it just Snake Oil that you’re selling. You’re saying that I just need to realise that it’s my thoughts on what is happening that […]
Category: Family
Building Resilience into Youth
To say that I am concerned about children and young adults’ ability to cope in this world would be a gross understatement. More and more I find myself working with 18 to 23-year-olds, and the complexity of their relationships with others and themselves is intense. Given this, I wasn’t surprised when I learned that self-harming, […]
Squaring the Circle
I always hated the phrase ‘squaring the circle’ I think it’s because I heard it a lot when my job had me spend a great deal of time with corporately schooled consultants. We had a rake of them around the place, and I found them to be sort of ‘Stepford Wives’ like in their ways […]