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Yesterday morning I answered the telephone and a woman asked “I’m trying to find a Befriender – do you still do this?”. I asked whether she had the wrong number and she explained that she had found us on the internet connected to … Continue reading →
I recently tweeted that I offered a Positive Action speech instead of the Positive Thinking request that I was asked for. A Twitter follower asked “surely the thinking comes first?” We struggle to achieve change as individuals because, of course, the … Continue reading →
Posted in Therapy
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Tagged 000 weeks, 4, Behaviour Change, Brief Therapy, change, drug addiction, Drug recovery, John Ruskin, mental health, Posiive Action, Positive Thinking, solution focused, therapy
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This weekend saw two festivities: St Patrick’s Day and Mothers Day. So – after a quick sobering raw egg on Sunday morning, I adopted the personna of the dutiful (and truly grateful) daughter in the morning to see my mother and then … Continue reading →
Posted in Children, General, Parenting, Pyschology, Therapy
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Tagged Childhood, family, Memories, mental health, parenting, School, well-being
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Over the past 20 plus years, many Cognitive Behavioural Therapists who attend our training courses have commented how similar Solution Focused Brief Therapy is to the CBT model. I have usually responded with “mmmm….kind of…but Solution Focused working is much more client-owned and client-directed”. CBT is often seen … Continue reading →
I was prompted to write this particular blog following a discussion with Eileen Murphy who told me about a follower on Twitter who had tweeted “My son, with Aspergers, has just been telling me how lonely he feels in school, no … Continue reading →
Posted in General, Parenting, Pyschologist, Pyschology, Therapy
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Tagged Aspergers, Aspies, Children with Aspergers, curriculum, mental health, Schools, Sean Foley, Tony Attwood, Young People
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Dr Danny Penman At the start of 2012, I decided to stop playing around on the fringes of Mindfulness, stop quoting from it and stop referring to it loosely in my work and to actually study it properly. The first … Continue reading →
Posted in General, Parenting, Pyschologist, Pyschology, Therapy
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Tagged Acceptance, change, Depression, Dr Danny Penman, education, emotions, Habit Breakers, Meditation, mental health, Mindfulness, Professor Mark Williams, Pyschology, thoughts
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I know its only been a while since I talked about the discourtesy shown to Michael McIntyre at the Comedy Awards last year and here I am again pondering why it has become so acceptable for comedians, in particular, to get … Continue reading →
Posted in General, Pyschology, Therapy
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Tagged Alan Carr, Carol Thatcher, comedy, comedyspring, courtesy, Kirsty Allsop, lazy comics, Lee Mack, Lulu, material, Michael McIntyre, Oliva Colman, writing
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A friend rang me “Eileen – is it true that you were in a bar once at Christmas with Noddy Holder and the Slade Christmas song started playing?”. “Nooooo” I assured her, “I was not in bar with Noddy Holder, I was … Continue reading →
Posted in General, Parenting, Pyschologist, Pyschology, Therapy
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Tagged Donald Rumsfield, Families, Geoffrey Pullum, Noddy Holder, preferred futures, solution focused, troubled families, truth, twitter
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This morning I received the usual notifications of new books, resources and online help for goal setting. I read the details and they were indeed impressive: two “how to….”, several “put yourself in a go-get mindset” and of course ”what is it you really … Continue reading →
Posted in General, Parenting, Pyschology, Therapy
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Tagged analogy, change, language, life change, metaphor, mindsets, Motivational coaching, Pyschology, subconscious, therapist, therapy, twitter
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When I run training courses on Achieving Change, I introduce the importance of the Rehearsal for Change – I can see that delegates are comfortable about this, and comfortable too when I talk about the importance of identifying what needs to change; what difference it … Continue reading →
Posted in General, Parenting, Pyschologist, Pyschology, Therapy
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Tagged Achieving Change, case study, IAPT, mental health, public course, recovery, self-development, self-help, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, talking therapies, Training
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