 
							
					
															
					
					 by Gwilym Roberts | 13th May 2020 | top tips
How would you rate your ability to express your feelings in the here-and-now? Often we find ourselves returning to the same, limited palette of happy, angry, sad, scared and don’t stray from the usual. Although it’s a good start, it’s often useful to develop our...				
					
			
					
											
								 
							
					
															
					
					 by Gwilym Roberts | 28th Apr 2020 | top tips
Sometimes, these days, it’s difficult enough for me to concentrate on a whole chapter of Harry Potter, let alone focus on planning my medium to long-term future.  I’m thinking about when this Corona Virus lockdown craziness is all over and I’m having mixed feelings. I...				
					
			
					
											
								 
							
					
															
					
					 by Gwilym Roberts | 21st Apr 2020 | top tips
Self awareness is vital.  I think most of us want to know ourselves a bit better. There are many selves to know! There’s the me that I’m aware of, the me that I am not aware of, the me I present to the world; this me changes for my audience.  There’s me that is...				
					
			
					
											
								 
							
					
															
					
					 by Gwilym Roberts | 7th Apr 2020 | top tips
Back in early March, when the world was not mad, I was lucky enough to work with children and young people.  What I love about counselling children is often the immediacy of change and willingness to try new things.  They are amazingly adaptive to new information. It...				
					
			
					
											
								 
							
					
															
					
					 by Gwilym Roberts | 2nd Apr 2020 | top tips
We’re entering a prolonged period of lock-down weirdness. It’s affecting everyone.  Currently being unapologetically can-do, I feel lucky that I’m able to notice and articulate these things for me and I thought I’d try to write it down for me and you. My initial...