Today is the Spring Equinox – the first official day of Spring. Goodbye snow (please)! Hello days that are longer than nights and all things positive as we move towards a brighter and cheerier time of year. So it seems a good day to announce the next few...
I saw a client today with whom I have been working regularly since August last year. We have looked at a wide variety of issues including communication, relationships, confidence, time management, life goals – a great mix. Today we reached a point where this...
This article was posted today on the School of Natural Health Sciences’ website – www.naturalhealthcourses.com. They run a really wide range of courses that you can study at home or at their London school and I recommend them very highly. But even if you...
Yesterday I attended Alicia Drummond’s Teen Talk Workshop. She was completely spellbinding and I learned so much. Her approach is very much listen to your teenager, ask them don’t tell them – and the elastic theory! She had so much great advice to...
Apparently, divorce applications peak in the first fortnight of January. Not a very cheering statistic but understandable. So many couples ‘hold it together’ to get through Christmas and then reality hits and the inevitable happens. It’s a very sad add-on to the New...
A couple of days before Christmas I received an email from a client who had been to a Group Coaching Session at the beginning of December. Towards the end of the session this group had asked me to coach them on coping with Christmas. So we looked at how important and...
Earlier this week I read an email to a group of friends in which one person said they couldn’t join in an activity the following afternoon because they were helping to build the school Santa’s Grotto. Admirable and talented, I have no doubt. But it...
Linda Blair, Clinical Psychologist, wrote in Monday’s Daily Telegraph about supporting boys with depression. As a mother of three boys, the eldest being 12, it caught my eye. She wrote about the rapid increase in the number of boys being diagnosed with...
Following on from my blog last weekend about Radio 4’s new series, “The Confidence Trick”, I wanted to share one particular thought from that programme with you. At the end of the first episode, an interviewee, Susan Cain, gave the most brilliant,...
At 8pm on Monday 30th October, Radio 4 begins a new 3 part series, “The Confidence Trick”. Presented by Laura Barton, the programme will examine the increasingly important part confidence appears to play in modern life, at the point when so many of us are...
