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The man from the Salvation Army…….
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
Posted in Children, General, Parenting, Pyschology, Therapy
Tagged Big Society, Charity, mental health, PSTD, Religion, Salvation Army
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You really do only get 4,000 weeks in a lifetime, so you may as well do something…
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
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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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Miss McCloughlan, The Tea Set and Uncle Jimmy’s Cardigan
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
Tagged Childhood, family, Memories, mental health, parenting, School, well-being
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy: differences, discuss
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
Talking with Dr Danny Penman: Mindfulness
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
Lee Mack and Alan Carr sat down one day to write…..
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
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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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So, Noddy Holder walks into this bar……
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
When we prepare for Change
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
Do you think you know your child best?
I was dismayed this week to read a pyschologist assessment that was full of assumptions, labels and in some parts, clearly absent of simple child behaviour knowledge. The Foster Carers of the four year old child, showed me the report as if they … Continue reading
Posted in General, Parenting, Pyschology, Therapy
Tagged Assessments, children, Foster Carers, Labels, Mums, Parents, Patient Expert, Pyschology
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