Resilience is a process of getting a robust attitude in the face of challenging and even threatening events. It’s also about becoming a stronger person as a consequence of facing up to and overcoming challenging experiences. Living is often about tackling obstacles or...
‘Emotion’ comes from the Latin term emovere meaning “moving”. The term is a combination of the words “energy” and “motion”, which captures the often fleeting nature of human emotions. Emotions are a gift. Through our feelings at any point in time, they enable us to...
About 30,000 years ago Homo Sapiens began to develop complex ways of relating to each other and conceptualising those relationships. This was a cognitive, linguistic revolution – the development of thought as we think of it today. Thought was as way of defining...
Compassion is the feeling or act of showing sympathy and understanding towards others. For most of us, it is much easier to express compassion towards others than it is towards ourselves. Self-compassion can be described as extending compassion to one’s self in...
I am sure you would agree that in some way or another, we are all seeking balance in our lives. Balance is also a very important component of our wellbeing. Achieving a balance between our mental health, emotional health and physical health will undoubtedly have a...
One evening around the beginning of May 2016 my eldest daughter Charlotte was watching videos on YouTube in our sitting room. ‘Quick mum, come here, you have got to watch this’ she shouted. ‘This is your story, these are your legs’. I went and...
