by Josephine Hughes | Jun 12, 2018
As a counsellor one of the things I witness is the hurt that people have suffered when they have difficult relationships in their past. The days celebrating fathers or mothers can be very hard for them. Even where there has been a close, loving, relationship with a...
by Josephine Hughes | May 17, 2018
I was walking the dog this morning and heard a mother shouting at her teenage son. It made me remember what a stressful time of year this is for families of young people who are embarking on their exams. Sometimes parents think it would be easier for them to sit the...
by Josephine Hughes | May 10, 2018
In her book “Feel the fear and do it anyway” Susan Jeffers asks herself the convoluted question: “What am I not doing in my life that I could be doing that I am blaming him for not doing?“ She was talking about moments of anger with her husband and making the point...
by Josephine Hughes | May 3, 2018
In The Universe Has Your Back, Gabby Bernstein asks us to imagine that we’re watching a horror film in a cinema. We know that the main character is about to walk into a life-threatening situation and we want to scream “don’t do it!”. Our lives can be like that. Time...
by Josephine Hughes | Mar 28, 2018
I took a trip down Memory Lane today and walked past the house where I’d been a young Mum. It is easy to romanticise memories of those days and think about the fun but sometimes I also feel regrets about the times when I was stressed and cross with the children. How...
