Halloween and Handling Painful Mistakes

Halloween and Handling Painful Mistakes

Have you ever been in that situation where you’ve made a mistake and you can’t stop thinking about it? You replay it in your mind and there is a hot or cold sweaty feeling between your shoulder blades and your stomach churns.  You wonder what you could possibly do to...
Never Give Up: The Value of Making Mistakes

Never Give Up: The Value of Making Mistakes

Many years ago when I was embarking on training to be an antenatal teacher, I studied a module about listening skills.  I read Pete Sanders’ book First Steps in Counselling and came across an explanation of learning that I have used ever since.  It is the four stage...
Five Ways to Beat the Blues

Five Ways to Beat the Blues

Monday morning blues. I think we all know the feeling, especially now that autumn is well under way – waking up to darkness, the press of the week weighing us down, the thought that our weekend freedom is lost, an internal “to-do” list perhaps accompanied by a vague,...

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