Developing our emotional vocabulary

Developing our emotional vocabulary

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...
I feel dread and I’m not sure why

I feel dread and I’m not sure why

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...
Self awareness

Self awareness

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...
Just think of the children!

Just think of the children!

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...
Keeping it together

Keeping it together

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...