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Message in a Bottle from 26 Years ago – The Lost Months
I discovered just 2 weeks ago that I'd had an intimate relationship with a beautiful Indian man when I was a 23 year old student during 4 months of my lead in to my schizophrenia that I had forgotten about. Forgotten about? Yes. Honestly. I had entirely repressed the...
Is your therapist a bit 2 dimensional?
Choosing a therapist when you've never been into a therapeutic relationship before can be a minefield. Not only is there such a mind boggling array of different styles form Cognitive Behavioural, to Psychodynamic, Hypnotherapy and person Centred Counselling, there's...
Worrying about your clients again?
Today's email: 6th July 2011 - You've opened this email because you know this is you! It was me. New in practice I worried whether what I'd done was right or appropriate, whether I'd missed something, whether the client had taken offence at something I'd said. The...
The buddhist way – Insights into personal growth
I had two good reasons to celebrate last weekend: one, it was my daughter's 15th birthday Friday and I welcomed assorted emo teenagers into our home Friday night for a barbecue/guitar hero party! (The other one I'll talk about in another post.) They're all...
What do I need money for?
I've been in a conflicted place for a number of years around money. I've still not fully reconciled the two extremes that nestle up against each other in my psyche. I'm torn between opting out of the money system and its tyranny and enslavement or actually using money...
