Author: Frances Masters
These 15 quotes about relationships will put a smile on your face, while making you think. Whether you’re in a long term relationship, or need some encouragement for a new one after a recent break up, use these quotes to bolster your reassurance that true love really does exist, and what you need to do...
Read MoreThere’s a lot of important stuff they simply don’t teach in school. They don’t teach you how to run your brain. They don’t teach you how to make your life work. They spend too much time testing your IQ and not enough helping you develop your EQ They don’t teach how to live well, love...
Read MoreIf you’re a parent you might be feeling a bit confused by the conflicting information you’ve been hearing in the news recently. Last week in the UK, was all about learning, rules and discipline, and a list of 10 skills a child must have by the age of four was been issued in an OFSTED...
Read MoreIt’s often said that William James (1) was to the USA, what Sigmund Freud was to Europe. William James was an elderly man when he finally met Freud at a lecture in 1909. They walked and talked together for a while. Nobody knows what their conversation was about. Must have been interesting. There’s no doubt...
Read More‘I’ve been promoted’ said Angela with a wry smile. ‘That’s great’ I replied ‘Isn’t it?’ ‘Well, yes it is but……there’s a problem!’ ‘I seem to have great difficulty taking the lead. It is something that makes me very nervous and although I will air my views in team meetings, my heart pounds and I feel...
Read More[Tweet “‘Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.’ Haruki Murakami”] A lot of the anxiety we suffer is self-inflicted. We think anxious thoughts. We look into the future and run scary movies in our head or we drift into the past and are full of regrets and hurts. It’s not really the things which happen to...
Read MoreGhosts Maria was a broken woman. My first impressions as I looked into her dark eyes were of someone who was haunted. ‘I haven’t been able to sleep for months now’ she explained. ‘And when I do sleep he is there!’ Turned out Maria had been married to a violent man; a man who was...
Read MoreI’m angry! I’m feeling really angry at the moment. The newspapers are often full of troubling headlines about inadequate mental health services. But a recent report touched both a personal and professional note for somebody who, more than twenty years ago, suffered herself from postnatal depression. (1) I can now make the professional observation that...
Read MoreSleep walking through life Have you ever noticed how you can drive from A to B and, when you get there, not have any real recollection of the actual journey? Yet you stopped at all the red traffic lights, allowed an elderly lady to cross the road, avoided collisions and, to all extents and purposes...
Read MoreSelf confidence is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as: ‘A feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities, and judgment’ Having trust in your own abilities, your qualities and your accurate judgement can mean the difference between feeling totally unstoppable or feeling totally petrified. Your perception of who you are has a real impact on...
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