We are driven by what we lack. A friends’ posts on social media are usually about how we should all love our mothers yet she has hardly spoken to her own mother in the last twenty years. When she does it usually ends in an argument.
Another friend, who ran a series of webinars entitled something like ‘How to get rich’ is always desperate for money. Continue reading “We Are Driven By What We Lack”
Whenever there’s a crisis in their lives many people in Brighton turn to counselling for help. It’s our experience that counselling certainly helps and people who have come to us from Brighton and the surrounding area have confirmed this. However, many of them have also revealed that they feel counselling hasn’t helped them long term and in fact, after a while they feel like they are just going around in circles.
Some people think that focusing on the stress of an issue is wrong and can even be harmful but Is this true?
Allowing yourself to focus on any stress you feel doesn’t reinforce the stress as many people think, it allows you to feel it so that you can get rid of it.
I have a friend, who puts her fingers in her ears if we move onto the subject of illness, “I don’t want to surround myself with negative people and negative thoughts,” she says, as if her own illness will miraculously go away by focusing on something nice instead. Continue reading “Feel The Stress Then Let It Go”
