Life is made up of positive and negative experiences, good and bad, happy and sad, ups and downs. Key to psychological health and wellbeing is the deliberate and calculated use of choice. And no-one can do that for us. There is much that has happened and will happen around us over which we have no … Continue reading The Power To Choose →

Self-care is all too often overlooked. There is a driving tendency to take care of the needs of those around us before we turn our attention to the needs of the person inside of us. We are quick to set aside our own sadness and suffering in a bid to ease the sadness and suffering … Continue reading The What And When Of Who →

We only have varying degrees of control over those things that occur outside of ourselves. That control sits inside a spectrum that ranges from absolute to nil. As difficult as it can sometimes be to accept, there are situations and circumstances which we are unable to direct or influence. The change we want is unachievable. … Continue reading The Power Of Choice →

There comes a time when it is absolutely essential that we unhook, disconnect and rest our minds. The alternative is that we run the risk of becoming unhinged. Inbuilt warning systems serve to warn us when the time is right. We feel them. We hear them. The problem is that those warnings can be ignored. … Continue reading A Little Piece Of Peace →

We do ourselves no favours if we miss the significance of this very point in time. All that has gone before - good, bad, happy and sad - has brought us to this moment. The past has gone. There are no remakes or do-overs. We did what we did with the chances and opportunities that … Continue reading Being In The Now →

Self image is often overlooked when it comes to the issue of mental anguish and wellbeing. But what we think of the person we are is a predictor of what we will think of the people around us. If we have a poor relationship with ourselves then it is more thank likely we will have … Continue reading Thinking, Seeing, Being →

We are surrounded by negativity and nastiness. We are confronted by the worst of human nature each and every day. Some of us have jobs we can barely tolerate. For others it's relationships that are particularly taxing. While it's not possible to control the negativity and nastiness that happens to us it is altogether possible … Continue reading No Venture, No Gain →

Deception has become a modern era byword. If we are not practicing it at one level or another we are victims of it. There are those around us who want to take advantage of both our trust and our gullibility. They seek to profit from our misfortune. They have no qualms when it comes to … Continue reading The Art Of Deception →

So much energy put into the effort of attempting to make things the way we would prefer them to be. What we want, however, is not always what we get or what we need. A lot of emotional and physical strength is wasted struggling with issues and individuals over which we have neither control nor … Continue reading The Scare Of Success →